Western Union self-winding clock

[Tony Duell]

>  Tony> If it is a syncronome, there are likely to be contacts for
>  Tony> slave dials too
> 
> No, those are the same contacts.  A synchronome has the slave dials
> wired in series with the master clock contact and solenoid and the
> battery.  That's actually a key part of the system, allowing things to

You are, of course, correct. I was thinking of another master-slave clock 
system where the pendulum was maintained by a Hipp Toggle, and there were 
serparate contacts for the slave dials...

[And for a really strange system, look at the original 'Magneta'...]

-tony