

This clock is made from bakelite, and has no maker's name or country of origin anywhere on it. I owned it for a few years and sold it about two years ago. I suspect it is Japanese, particularly by the style of numerals. It has a very basic, almost crude, 30 hour weight driven movement wound by a chain. It has no pendulum suspension, instead it has what I term a "flick pendulum", which simply hangs on the end of the crutch. The pallets move in a jerk rather than swinging smoothly, so there is a huge amount of error. The chain is fixed bizarrely to both top and bottom of the driving weight in a loop. Despite it's atrocious timekeeping I particularly liked this clock, but it had to go, as funds were tight...
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