Clocks, timepieces, etc.

[ARNC]

I’ve been wondering about starting a clock thread for a while. We have two watch threads but nothing covering this topic and I guess I’m not alone. I don’t want this to be a one-man thread and hope the mods will put me out of my misery if required!

Anyway, any contributions welcome - they don’t have to be old, in competition with your IH budget or even yours (maybe something interesting where you live). I’ll start things off with one of mine (c. 1880) retailed by a chandler that I suspect G and P will know.

[Giles]

I think we have a grand total of 2 clocks in the house. Will take pics later

[T4920]

@ARNC I'm glad you started this thread. I remember speaking to you about clocks in Hamburg, and I love reading about things people are passionate about.

[endo]

excited @ARNC let's see what's there

[ARNC]

@endo it won’t come all at once. Gotta give others a chance

[Seul]

Well in anticipation of some good stuff, let's have some fleemarket and thrift store cheapos first...

[Brian]

This is the only click in our house and never changes time as the tick tock it makes drives me mad was a gift from my wife’s uncle American apparently and needs to be wound every week so after the initial wind it has sat dormant on top of the fridge of all places it has history but that’s about it
My folks in England have a similar one but shorter on the length from memory
a Napoleon clock I think it’s called

[Giles]

[ARNC]

@Seul nothing wrong with cheapos and you’ve got some classic designs there.

[ARNC]

@Brian it takes a while to get used to the ticking but I’m the complete opposite now. I’m much more likely to “hear” when one of mine stops ticking.

[ARNC]

One more for now as sometimes the most exciting stuff is on the inside. And the fusee is such an elegant solution to equalising the pull from the mainspring.

[Twistlock]

[endo]

two clocks inherited from my parents, trying to sell them atm

[ddtrash]

I don’t own any clocks despite being a watch guy.

Maybe time to address this, always liked the JLC Atmos clocks.

If any forum members are ever visiting London I can highly recommend a visit to the Greenwich observatory where the Harrison clocks are on display, simply stunning pieces of craftsmanship.

[Mizmazzle]

@ddtrash those are incredible, Graham.

[Mizmazzle]

We just found this clock a couple months ago. Not particularly fancy or expensive, but we think it’s pretty cool. Fills the particular space wonderfully.

[ARNC]

@ddtrash agree re Atmos. For London visits, there's also rooms 38-39 at the British Museum (good for watch guys too). If this works, you should be able to do a virtual tour here.

[WhiskeySandwich]

Inherited this travel clock from my father in law. I’m not superstitious, only a littlestitious, but it randomly starts ticking when I’m next to it. And we had to get the biggest clock we could for this empty space over the bay window.

[ARNC]

I promise not to do this every weekend but here’s another one. For some reason the case makes me think of @Oaktavia

[Giles]

@ARNC said in Clocks, timepieces, etc.:

I promise not to do this every weekend

Please do......