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Anybody got any nice or interesting ones?
Our kitchen one randomly fell down today and bit the dust. It was just some generic clock we’ve had for years, probably from The Range or somewhere like that - am gonna get something a bit more interesting to replace it, maybe a Mondaine Swiss railway clock, or a vintage Seiko one.
Anyone got any worth sharing?
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I have a Vostok submarine wall clock. It's totally impractical, weighs almost 3 kilos, keep time badly and needs winding every 4 or 5 days. It is pretty cool though. Pic stolen from t'internet:
Originally Posted by Lampoc
I have a Vostok submarine wall clock. It's totally impractical, weighs almost 3 kilos, keep time badly and needs winding every 4 or 5 days. It is pretty cool though. Pic stolen from t'internet:
That is super cool, love it!
Haha, think I’ll avoid those!
If you like a G-Shock, and who doesn't, I'd recommend one of these Acctim digital radio controlled wall clocks. I've had one in my front room for many years. My model is slightly different to that below, as it has a moon phase where the temperature is shown, the temp on mine is smaller and off to the side.
It's accurate, large enough to be seen right across the room, shows all the information I need, is silent, has great battery life and is about £30. Yep. The G-Shock of wall clocks.
WW2 RAF sector clock ;-)
I'm a fan of 1950's atomic design and picked up one of these from Etsy for my office:
I looked for watch related clocks and ended up settling for a Braun clock. It has a sweeping hand and it’s silent. Design is very clean.
Cant post a picture at the moment, found it via Google: https://www.endclothing.com/gb/braun...nc017bkbk.html
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I looked for watch related clocks and ended up settling for a Braun clock. It has a sweeping hand and it’s silent. Design is very clean.
For legibility you can't go wrong with a Mondaine
I have this runs in direct current with sweeping second hand for over 40 years and it still keeps running despite skipping few minutes +/- over the month..
pix from the Internet
While I also have the cheap Ikea with sweeping second hand
Astral (as in Smiths) Quartz Radio Room clock, probably late 70s. That’s in the hall.
And a modern radio controlled RAF sector clock (sticker removed) is in the kitchen. Originals of these would be about £5k these days if you could find one.
Posted before, when it was in my 'aunt's' living room. Since then it has passed to her daughter who had it serviced by some specialist near Ashby de la Zouche. I think that it just received a new main spring and clean/lube. So still very much original.
Initially - a relative of my aunt removed it (under a coat) from the submarine - after it was captured.
The clock is from the WW1 Submarine U-122.
This was a minelaying submarine, and was towed to the Medway at the end of the war for breaking, but was left with some other U-boats on the mud flats. Apparently, she is still there.
http://www.squidoo.com/ww1-uboat-sub-wreck
Still running today - and a thing of beauty. I think its beauty lies in the pure functionality of it - designed to operate accurately, under the arduous conditions below the sea.
(The clock face itself is around 6" diameter - the mounting plate is not original of course)
My aunt was interviewed by the Daily Express in 2013:
The submarine, which was captained by Alexander Magnus, was one of the most advanced submarines of the German fleet. It launched in February 1918 at a yard in Bremen, would have carried 10 torpedoes and had a crew of 34.
The vessel, which boasted a cruising range of 7,200 to 9,000 miles, undertook just two patrols before the end of the war, when it was surrendered and taken to Britain. It is then Mr Lawrie, an engineer from Edinburgh who also served as a submariner in the First World War, took possession of the clock.
After having its diesel engines removed, it was being towed down the Medway towards the Thames Estuary to be dismantled when its tow broke and it was swept ashore.
It now lies in an area known as the Humble Bee Creek and is almost entirely exposed at low tide.
Mrs Macdonald insisted the treasured artifact will never leave her family, revealing that she intends to pass it on to her daughter.
Laughing off the idea that it could return to Germany, or even be displayed in a museum, she added: "They are not getting it back, I'd sooner smash it up than give it back to the Germans."
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By pure coincidence I have a work project coming up along the coast from the wreck and hope to get a boat to go and see the wreck at some point in the summer (it’s difficult to get to which is why it’s still there) it was also on TV earlier this week.
What a great thing to have in the family.
Last edited by Sinnlover; 11th January 2022 at 10:47.
Nice to know your aunt is over the Germans' involvement in the war! Very Daily Express...
Lovely stuff.
Picked up at a local market. 40 euros. Works fine but needs a service. Runs fast.
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Nice to know your aunt is over the Germans' involvement in the war! Very Daily Express...
Lovely stuff.
She was 90 yrs old, when interviewed.
Cheap repro in my kitchen.........
Dutch Zaanse / Atlas clock.
Took me the best part of a week to get it absolutely level and to adjust the pendulum clutch as it kept stopping.
Working perfectly now though
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Although I don’t own one at the moment, redbubble.com sell a massive range of watch-based wall clocks including Omega, Blancpain, Doxa, Tudor, Longines, Orient, JLC and even Universal Geneve.
All just over 10 inches diameter.
They’re £28 a pop and I’m very tempted by one for my office.
Simon
Aren't they all snides though?
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They're all snides though.
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That looks great. Very retro and very stylish.I'm a fan of 1950's atomic design and picked up one of these from Etsy for my office:
For a few years now a group of friends and ourselves have got each other a “naff” gift which has to be displayed in the receivers home until they can find a “naffer” gift to give, they can then remove the “naff” one whilst the “naffer” is displayed in the new recipient’s house. So this gem arrived a good while ago, if anyone can suggest to me a “naffer” one I’d be very grateful! Cheers, John B4
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Ha ha, i have one of those and theyre cheap tat but hasnt died yet....
Me too, the blue Submariner. Utter tat but it keeps time and the date function works. Lol.
Inherited from my mother in law's estate. It was hanging on the wall of her living room when I first met her in the late seventies until the flat was emptied following her death. It never worked in all that time. I had it repaired: according to the repairer it had suffered a 'catastrophic' failure at some time in the past when one of the pinion pins had sheared.
It now runs fine, striking the hours and the half hours.
FWIW the movement is Kienzle: God only knows who made the case.
Me too. Turkey, £50
I got excited for a moment and then went over to have a look. What utter tat.
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
Gift from the wife. Cheap quartz thing, but it's reliable (unlike the team sometimes...)
Some really interesting offerings on here! Cheers for the responses.
Second that , what a lovely piece
You can turn the LED light off in settings if you like
A waiting room unfortunately. No bag on me to smuggle it out in.
My 14in GPO clock is hiding up in loft. I also have a smaller 8in school fusee too in down stairs toliet .
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Thank you for the site information. Purchased a Royale atomic boomerang retro style in light turquoise mint.I'm a fan of 1950's atomic design and picked up one of these from Etsy for my office:
No problem...they are great handmade wallclocks, you won't be disappointed!
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
A sight to put fear in the heart of most schoolchildren........................ and teachers!
About 30 years ago I was an engineering officer in the merchant navy. Mainly large containerships.
In the cabins we had wallclocks that looked like some of those above.
These wallclocks were centrally controlled so when we crossed timezones, mainly in the North Atlantic, the clocks fell back or went forward whether you were going over or back.
Anyway, when I was a young engineering cadet I asked how this all worked. The pro 3rd engineer, a raging alcoholic from Glasgow told me the Filipino bosun went around at night and set all the clocks in the cabins. He of course embellished the story with what would happen if the bosun took a shine to me etc. !!!!
Took me a day or so to figure out the wind up.
But I used the same wind up to great effect myself there after !!!
Non-synchronised ones in my day..................
The pale green Seiko wall-clock was standard issue on the bridge, radioroom, controlroom, dutymess, offices etc - and most still retained the sticker on the front with the price.
Probably in every single office and factory in Japan back in the '70s too.
I'm looking forward to it arriving. Your one looks great.
Connected to the above 2 comments about MN synchronized clocks, here’s my office clock in my home office.
Originally sent to my companies office as a demo to try and get us to buy several of them and fit them on our ships, but never happened. When the office closed and I went in to grab my gear to setup my home office, I found it on my desk, with a note from a colleague who had been made redundant, saying ‘you like watches don’t you?’
It did have an Ethernet cable and a movement that would have synced to the ships master clock, which I removed and fitted with a quartz movement. Looks great on the wall, and reminds me of clocks we had on the bridge back in the day.
Very fast shipping. It arrived yesterday. A very well made item. It looks great. I'm really happy with it. Thanks again for the info.
So evocative of the era! There is another on a similar vein in the same colour.
Something 'just right' about them.
I have this Seiko with a clean smooth sweeping second hand. Charity shop bargain. I think it's from the 80's. There's a few on eBay.
I had to do quite a bit of cleaning up of this when I picked it up off eBay a few years ago but it looks good in my office now.
Another charity shop find. It is awful, but I like it.......
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Lovely clock I have one in my office
A waiting room unfortunately. No bag on me to smuggle it out in.
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I also have this seiko clock that I drunkenly brought in a thrift shop in Japan and carried it all across the country following england at the rugby World Cup. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
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