A flying pendulum clock is a clock that uses a flying pendulum

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mechanism. A small metal ball, connected by string wraps around one brass post, then unwinds before repeating on the other brass post. The flying pendulum clock was invented and patented in 1883 by Adler Christian Clausen and J. C. Slafter in

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. The clock was later called the Ignatz Flying pendulum clock after a character in the Krazy Kat comic. It has been called "the craziest clock in the world" due to the motion of the escapement.

References

This clock was first designed by

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Video of mechanism
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