# Securing longcase clocks: the case stays, the movement and the weights go

> Secure longcase clocks: keep the case stable, secure weights and pendulum for a move, note the movement number.
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A longcase clock is furniture with a movement. In a short burglary the case often stays standing. Pendulum, weights, and a signed dial are the parts that go missing or get bent. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you secure the movement and the stability.

## What breaks without a thief

Dryness splits the case, a sloping floor throws the pendulum out of beat, sun on the veneer. You do not stand it against the radiator wall, and not where the room door hits it. Before a move you secure the pendulum and the weights, or the movement wrecks itself.

## When someone comes

The case is heavy. Small dial parts, and a loose movement you have set beside it "for repair", go with them. The movement stays in the clock or in the locked cabinet, not on the table. You photograph the number.

## The folder

Maker of the case, signature of the movement, number, proof, photo of the dial. Case and movement can have two histories. The list says so.


## Häufige Fragen

### Clock against the heating?

No. Veneer and rate suffer.

### Secure the pendulum before the move?

Yes. Otherwise it strikes the movement.

### Take the dial off and leave it lying?

Only if it then lies locked away. On the table it is a small, expensive part.