Tic-Tac Escapement

-Type of recoil escapement, the pallets of which embrace just one or two teeth of the escape wheel.- Clocks Magazine. Also: -A small anchor escapement which extends over only two teeth of the escape wheel. Used on French and some early English clocks with bob pendulums.- Oldandsold.com. -The 'anchor' only embraces two or three teeth of the escape wheel.- (hotantiquespro.com) -Type of recoil escapement, the pallets of which embrace just one or two teeth of the escape wheel.- Clocks Magazine (website) -A form of anchor escapement in which the anchor only spans one to three teeth of the escape wheel. It is fitted to French drum clocks with short pendulums swinging through a large arc. Sometimes one pallet is formed to give frictional rest only, all the lift being on the other pallet.- TermWiki -A small anchor escapement which extends over only two teeth of the escape wheel. Used on French and some early English clocks with bob pendulums.- Oldandsold.com -A type of escapement found in some early clocks and a modified form of the anchor escapement.- Helena Hayward (ed.). The Connoisseur's Handbook of Antique Collecting. Galahad Books, NY, 1960. 320 pp. -An escapement in which the pallets span but few teeth to effect a wide arc to the short, pivoted pendulum.- Donald S. McNeil (ed.). Jewelers' Dictionary. Jewelers' Circular-Keystone (3rd) 1976