So this is the Maintaining Power.
The way it works is...
Firstly, the weight drive is on a string wrapped around the blue disc just above and it is torquing it in a clockwise direction Through the small blue ratchet (very noisy and pre gravity ratchet) it turns the large grey ratchet clockwise. The large grey ratchet is connected to the latge brown disc through 2 green springs. The large brown disk is glued or connected to the purple gear. So what happens here the purple gear can't spin freely because it is held back by the escapement...so the power of the weight drive streaches the springs until they won't streach any further. When it is time to wind the clock or in this case lift the weight, the weight is no longer putting power or drive into the system, so the large grey ratchet will then recoil a small amount until one of its teeth is stopped by the grey stopper on the left. Nice eh!?
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