The inside of a grandfather (or similar) clock.

I wrote that response first, then I clicked on the image to see a larger version to confirm. On your Flickr page I was greeted with a few photos of the rest of the clock. Might want to isolate the “guess what it is” photos from other photos of the item in the future.

chimes in the grandfather clock?

I’m thinking chimes too! (gotta check out the Flickr spoiler page…unless it’s “disinformation”)

I was going to say it was a grandfather clock, but it would be hard to get a picture of the two pulleys and the center doesn’t look much like a pendulum. I’m going to guess it’s a weight-driven clock or a cuckoo clock.

Ha! The smarty pantses found the secret hint on Flickr. OK, not so secret. But yes, this is the inside of a grandfather clock. A little tricky to take this based on guess-focusing, as my 50mm does not auto focus on my camera. Had to take many to get one that had the focus where I wanted it!

@ John, the reason the center doesn’t look like a pendulum is because it’s actually 3 pulleys. I didn’t get the pendulum in this shot. Just trying to throw you all off, ya know.

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Excellent job on the photo! It’s a beautiful clock. Any chance we can get you to put up a photo of the whole clock?

Thanks, John! I will try to get a full clock shot soon!

yeah, it looks like the weights for a grandfather clock