How to move a Grandfather Clock

It's important that we know How to Move a Grandfather Clock safely. 

At McCrorys Removals Ltd. we have unique experience, of serving the Fine Art Galleries and Antique Auction Salerooms of both the UK And Ireland for decades. 

Grandfather or Longcase clocks are weight driven, so, being tall, meant that the clocks can be would up so as to last for 30 hours or even for 8 days, depending on the mechanism. 

The most valuable type of Grandfather Clocks are those with Brass Dials, and also with 8 days movements. 

 

Other features can include Date Calendar as well as moon phase dial. But it also became fashionable to have painted dial clocks, which had imitation Moon Phase discs which didn't have any mechanism, so were simply painted on to resemble their more expensive models. 

This was possibly to impress visitors, so, keeping up with the Joneses goes back for centuries, it seems. 

 

One of the most common inscriptions on the dials of these clocks which was in Latin would read 'Tempus Fugit' which translates as Time Flies. 

 

Moving a grandfather clock requires great care, especially with the works and the dial and hands. 

 

These clocks have always been valuable, and when they were in current use a couple of hundred years ago, it would only have been the richest people 

that could have afforded them. 

 

So when we move them nowadays, we treat them with the utmost respect.