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  1. Delong's escapament, showing eccentric lever
  2. pivot, pallets spring clamped into the lever,
  3. and the manner in which it achieces lower
  4. recoil than a standard lever escapement.
  5. Although recoil is significantly reduced
  6. at shallow engagement, recoil is increasing
  7. rapidly at standard locking engagement, and
  8. draw angle has become very high. These
  9. chracteristics doomed Delong's design.