A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.

Part of the lever escapement, shaped like a ship's anchor (see Escapement).

Sometimes called pallet fork. That portion of the escapement which connects the time train to the balance, and allows the power of the watch to escape at a predictable rate through the locking and unlocking action of the pallet jewels on the teeth of the escape wheel.

Steel or brass part of watch that controls the small rotation of a ratchet wheel.

In a pendulum or weight driven clock, pallets are the faces of the verge (Often jewels.) The part of the platform escapement that takes power from the escape wheel and delivers it to the movement with each oscillation of the balance wheel.