It could just be out of beat. Make sure you have an even tick-tock. Level the clock until you hear this. The clock doesn’t have to be perfectly level, just enough so there’s even beat. Or if this is a clock with a beat adjust, give the pendulum a big swing to one side or the other and eventually it’ll put itself in beat.
Probably want to oil it, and for the oil, you want to use a premium quality synthetic clock oil, don’t ever try to use wd40 because it’ll kinda mess up the movement