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Waterbury Clock Co., Ship's Bell No. 1, circa 1915, - Quartz Conversion 2015

This clock began life as a Waterbury jeweled movement ship's bells clock in a heavy brass case. Unfortunately the clock case was separated from its original movement and sold on eBay® where I purchased it in December 2014. The case was missing the original glass but had an original porcelain enamel dial and a heavy coiled gong.

Let me say that I do not approve of fine old clocks like this being parted out and sold as parts. That being said, I was looking for a similar case to make a "bathroom clock". I wanted a tightly enclosed case because of the damp environment and had planned from the beginning to use an inexpensive quartz movement in a brass case. Then this really nice case came up. The pictures show the quartz movement (which does not sound the bells) and the fake winding arbors. All of the original parts were retained so that a Waterbury mechanical ships bells movement can be installed if one comes up at a good price. The hands are not the correct style but what I had available. The convex glass it something from my bone pile and the curve made room for the longer quartz movement center stack. I may change the hands when I have occasion to reorder parts.




Not for sale at this time

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