Well there were a couple parts I didn't completely disassemble, yet.
The two mainsprings were still attached to their wheels and held with clamps. The springs still need to be removed from the wheels and doing so requires a terrific tool.
A mainspring winder.
And I have a fine example, custom built by craftsman extraordinaire, Scott Johnson.
The principle function of a mainspring winder is to safely control the installation or removal of mainsprings on and off their respective wheels.
A mainspring is hooked to the wheel arbor and the spring must be fully unwound to release it.
Winder made by JohnsonArts is beautifully crafted. More industrial versions look like this.
Here's one of the mainspring wheels taken off the clock with the spring wound and held by my clamp, peeking out under my index finger.
And here it is inserted in the winder which holds the spring end tightly in place while you wind or unwind the spring itself.
The winder is clamped to my bench. The pressures from a spring winding/unwinding are considerable.
Since we are removing the spring from its arbor and it is held in the clamp, we wind the spring a bit tighter, removing the pressure from the clamp.
Then the clamp is slid off of the tightened spring and then the spring is carefully unwound fully.
The winder is designed to be reversible as the two springs (one time train, the other strike train) are wound in opposite directions around their respective arbors.
Flipping the winder around I did the other spring.
The wheel of our mainspring has a very important feature not found on the other wheels.
A click.
What's a click?
Let me explain.
Clocks are wound by inserting a key over their winding arbors and turning.
Here are the two winding holes on our Adamantine with the winding arbor ends peeping out.
Now imagine we're turning the key, twisting it clockwise. There's pressure from the spring as it is tightening. The key wants to turn back in your hand but it doesn't.
It clicks and holds in place as you continue to turn it.
Click, click, click.
Now let's examine our wheel.
Looking below, there's the squared mainspring winding arbor pointing upwards. We insert the key around that arbor when we wind the clock.
Riveted to the wheel is the click. It has a point that matches the angle of the gap between the click wheel teeth. The click can rotate on that pivot but it is pressed downwards against the click wheel by the click spring.
As that arbor turns clockwise, with it turns the click wheel and that brass click wheel rides up a tooth of the click wheel and then is pressed into the gap of the next tooth.
By pressing the click downward into the gap, the click spring effectively locks the click wheel preventing it from spinning backwards.
Click.
Continue turning the key and the click rides up the next tooth and then snaps down into the gap.
That is the action that creates the click, click, click when you wind a clock.
And here's a video of the cleaned wheel demonstrating the click action.
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