My Clock Collection #13 (01/07/2023)

The first clock you see is a Japanese long-drop shaped wall clock with hour striking. The movement is stamped with the name "Hearth", while the trademark on the dial is in the shape of a heart, with a capital H in the middle. This leads me to believe "Hearth" was a typo. I got this clock in 2021 from an antique mall in Stillwater, Minnesota, with the help of one of my great long-time friends.

Seth Thomas short-drop shaped clock with hour and half hour striking on a coiled gong. It uses an 89C movement, with a pendulum hanging down from the front of the movement rather than the back. I recently replaced the gong hammer.

New Haven short-drop in an Art Déco styling. Likely from the 1920s, uses a single-train time only movement wound up every week.

A very small "Arrow" branded novelty clock in the shape of a short-drop wall clock. This belonged to my great grandfather, who then passed it down to my mother. Now, my mother has passed it down to me, so it's like an heirloom. :)

Semca carriage clock with a small striking movement built by Mauthe. These small Mauthe movements are so compact and jam-packed with too much in one small package, making them very unreliable timekeepers. They're allegedly prone to mechanical failure a lot.

ZentRa/Kienzle box clock from no earlier than 1933, plays a rare Potsdamer Gong on the half-hour, and a nice musical chord on the half hour. The melody played by Potsdamer Gong clocks is from Mozart's "Üb' Immer Treu und Redlichkeit", which once rung out from a bell carillon at the Garnisonkirche in Potsdam, Germany. These clocks were made to capitalize on the rampant nationalism in Germany at the time. After the Reichstag burnt down in February 1933, Hitler celebrated the opening of the new Reichstag at the Garnisonkirche. This is why Kienzle chose to recreate the bells of the church in their clock (apart from the song already being deeply rooted in German folklore).

Junghans free-swinger wall clock with a very nice Loudspeaker chime. These clocks have very solid movements and were extremely popular in the 60s. I'm certain with how many of these exist, these had to be one of Junghans' best selling clocks of the mid-century. They came in various different stylings, including Space-Age!

Junghans hanger clock with a balance wheel movement and Membran-Gong. This clock is likely also from the 60s and has a very cute, high pitched chime.

Junghans drop-dial wall clock with Westminster chimes, like everything else in this corner it was likely also made in the 60s.

Helmut Kammerer cuckoo clock with a passing cuckoo mechanism, meaning it cuckoos once every 15 minutes rather than counting the hour and announcing the half-hour.

My novelty clocks, a LUX cuckoo clock, a J. Engstler owl novelty clock with moving eyes, and an unmarked German novelty clock with a traditional cuckoo clock styling.

Trend triple chime wall clock with a Hermle mechanism. That doesn't make it particularly special, but the case-work makes up for that, it's a beautiful clock. Trend is a division of the Sligh clock company.

Seth Thomas column clock, essentially a fancier 30-hour Ogee clock. This one has a built in alarm which is LOUD. Like an Ogee clock, it's driven by two big cast-iron weights on either side of the case.

Gilbert kitchen clock/gingerbread clock from the Aldine line, a 30 hour going clock with a loud bell for the hour striking. It is genuinely the loudest striking clock in my collection.

Sessions beehive-shaped mantel clock, does the normal American striking pattern of a bell on the half-hour and a cathedral gong on the hour.

Kern mechanical 400-day clock with a diamond-shaped dial. That's why it caught my eye.

Hamilton Wheatland bracket clock that I got in exchange for my Bulova ATO-MAT bracket clock. My friend Nicholas got this from a Goodwill as not working, and I fixed it up.

Unmarked 8-day mantel clock. The construction is very reminiscent of a German clock. The proportions of the case make me believe this could've been made for the British market.

Waterbury tambour mantel clock that seems fairly French inspired, from the construction of the case to the movement.

Kronheimer novelty clock mimicking a grandfather clock, the clock has a faux pendulum.

Polaris 31 day wall clock with a mass produced Chinese movement.

Hermle free-swinger with weights, goes for 8 days and strikes bim-bam.

Very tiny cuckoo clock, likely my oldest cuckoo clock. The cuckoo is made of wood. It also runs on fairly light weights, 250 grams.

AMS free-swinger clock with an 8 day movement in it by SBS Feintechnik, the makers of Regula movements.

Seiko Lorus 30 day wall clock. One interesting thing about it is the snail is directly attached to the hour hand, so no matter what position the hour hand is in, the clock will always chime in sync.

F.M.S (Friedrich Mauthe Schwenningen) mini box clock with bim-bam striking, likely made in the early 1920s.

(Continuing this in the pinned comment.)