Brian Law's woodenclocks Gravity Escapement Prototype

The design of this escapement is based on the Arnfield escapement developed by Jim Arnfield in 1987. He developed a method to completely isolate the pendulum from the releasing friction, something that had never been achieved before. I have modified the design quite a bit so as to be able to use it in a new wooden clock design. The escapement release parts have all been gathered together at the bottom of the escape wheel to reduce the inaccuracies that can creep in over larger distances when using wood. As usual has taken months to get from the concept to the working prototype mainly due to getting all the geometry to work together in a reliable manner. This prototype achieves this so I can now complete the design of the clock it is to fit into and then build that.