Book 9 German Clocks - Softcover

Steven G. Conover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962476617 ISBN 13: 9780962476617

Publisher: Clockmakers Newsletter, 2019

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Book 9 German Clocks covers repair procedures for a category of clocks representing a wide range of styles and ages. This book is organized into four chapters covering several types of German clocks. Chapter 1, Older German Wall & Mantel Clocks, covers late 19th and early 20th century German movements. Chapter 2, Modern-Era German Movements, provides repair information on wall and mantel clock movements from the second half of the 20th century, as produced by Hermle, Urgos, Jauch, and others. These German movements were cased and sold as complete clocks by American companies such as Howard Miller and Ridgeway. Chapter 3, Cuckoo Clocks, describes a group of clocks loved by their owners, yet avoided by some repairers. Most cuckoo clocks were designed to run one day on a winding, with a cuckoo bird figure appearing every hour. Some cuckoo clocks had complications such as music boxes and miniature whirling figures in colorful German costumes. Chapter 4, 400-Day Clocks, covers a style of German table clock that was manufactured in the millions in the second half of the 20th century. These clocks featured a torsion pendulum that rotated in one direction and then reversed itself, rather than a swinging pendulum or a balance. Grandfather clocks with German movements, whether modern-era or older, are covered in Book 4 Grandfather Clocks in this series.

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