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and bracket clocks are also very common.

A typical striking clock will have two gear trains, because a striking clock must add a striking train which operates the bell-ringing mechanism to the timekeeping train that measures the passage of time.

Passing strike

The most basic sort of striking clock simply sounds a bell once every hour; this is called a passing strike clock. Passing strike was simple to implement mechanically;

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