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Presented today is a very different beast from my usual interests... This is a Barwick "pillar and scroll" style clock, model no. 4993, made in part by the Howard Miller company in the USA in the 1980s.
I am usually not much of a fan of more modern clocks, as many of them are often made cheaply, use components of poor quality, and are, in my opinion, generally far inferior to earlier examples. That said, I got this one with a very specific purpose in mind... I wanted a clock with Winchester chimes, and this one had that option. Also, this is such a cool case style, and is constructed quite well for a newer clock. Unfortunately, when I was given this clock back in late 2021, it came with a very, very broken movement. It took two years to find a replacement, which is now oiled, installed, and running beautifully.

Although Howard Miller does make clock cases, they do not make their own movements. Rather, they install ones made by Hermle and Kieninger, the only two German manufacturers of mechanical clocks still active. However, during the 1980s, they were also using movements by the Urgos clock company, which was still in business then. This particular example is a case in point, utilizing a pendulum-driven, spring-powered, three-train Urgos movement, which runs for about eight days on a winding. The UW 06087 movement chimes every fifteen minutes on a tuned set of chime rods, playing progressively longer segments of either Westminster, Whittington, or Winchester melodies. At the top of the hour, the clock chimes the full chosen tune, then strikes the number of hours on a three-note chord. I find the rather uncommon Winchester melody to be particularly charming, and will hopefully enjoy it, and this clock, for a long time to come.