The form of grande sonnerie strike employed on this clock was one that obviously never found popularity with other clockmakers. It was, one suspects, an attempt by Raingo to make the strike selection more accessible by positioning the strike selection slide on the dial as opposed to the more normal place in the base. The racks and levers are are marked and screwed in such a way as to suggest that this is a prototype and there is further evidence suggesting that Raingo had exceeding difficulty in setting the cam and lever system for the quarter hammer. His confidence in the clock however is underlined by employing a chronometer platform escapement and this in turn suggests that the clock was perhaps given exhibitin status