The author first visited Mount Athos in Greece in the year 2000 with a quest to explore its horological past. Since then, he has engaged in the restoration and conservation of many crown wheel and verge lantern clocks with short pendulums, as well as verge and foliot tower clocks. These projects offered an opportunity to study, document and research these clocks. This paper describes two discoveries and their significance. The first is an unknown and novel clock strike locking mechanism that was discovered on verge and foliot tower clocks at five monasteries. The other was that comparisons drawn between these five.
