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Originally Posted by wilnj
If you two have a spat do you go around changing the time ever so slightly on each of them?
I would.
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They are all set to different times now! They are off by a few minutes. None of them keep perfect time. Some run a little fast, some a bit slow and all at varying amounts. They are all OLD antique mechanical clocks and most have pendulums to adjust the speed. She winds, and sets them on Saturday morning. Some have stopped and have to be reset through several hours. Some are wound with a key, one way and some are wound another way. Some are on weights and have a chain to pull to wind them. Most have bells and different noises to designate the time and some are full Westminster tones.
I know to not touch them. Some are noisy as heck, and at noon it sounds like a clock shop. It is funny how my brain just filters them out, and I usually don't even hear them consciously. Most are pretty cool looking and some are just plain. She put one in our bedroom that sounds like a amped up metronome TIC TIC TIC TIC. I shut it down right away, I am not listening to that as I try to sleep. She lets it run during the day and I kill it at night before I go to bed.