Clock Project

Would like to build a digital clock with a long-duration mechanical
escapement ("artistic" part).

I found Bill Bowen's site

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Bill_Bowden/

and could probably decipher something here, but thought I'd try for
some advice/ shortcut.

I envision empirically determining the periodicity of my "escapement
mechanism" and inputting that time period into my clock via dip
switches. This number (not much resolution needed due to mechanical
vagaries of long-period escapement) would then be latched into the
clock electronics to provide the clock increment.

One could call this a "variable increment clock", I guess.

Could someone point me to a circuit that comes close to this?

Marc on the North Coast

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