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   gulfstar | Jan 20, 2020 08:28am | #1

   It is quite a science to maintain those German mechanism. We had ours taken to the Clockmaker after 40 years of use. They will take it apart, clean and lube the moving components, change and/or calibrate the springs and put it back in the case.

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   suburbanguy | Jan 20, 2020 03:31pm | #2

   As Gulfstar said, find a good clock smith. Much easier and cheaper than unnecessarily replacing the movement. Those movements last almost forever and simply need cleaning, maintenance, and new bushings where the pivot holes get elongated, causing the gears to stop turning.
   I want to specifically add, whatever you do, don't oil the mechanism, if you don't know what you're doing. You can ruin it by lubing the wrong parts and over-lubing. (If a bit of oil drips down one of the plates, the surface tension will pull all of the oil from the pivot causing it to run dry.) In fact the clock smith that I use here in town (5th gen clock smith from Germany) specifically says that lubing accelerates the wear on the pivots as the dust in the pivots acts as a grinding medium. He said, bring the movements (yes, I have a number of clocks) to him when they stop and then he'll clean it and lube it.