fixing clock

[seahorse513]

I have this lovely mallard duck mantle clock(I love ducks!). However the internal workings aren't turning. To who would take it too?? A jeweler, or a clocksmith(?)...Any idea of the costs?? any opinions?? advice??

[CactusCarlos]

I have this lovely mallard duck mantle clock(I love ducks!). However the internal workings aren't turning. To who would take it too?? A jeweler, or a clocksmith(?)...Any idea of the costs?? any opinions?? advice??

This looks interesting: http://www.nationalclockrepair.com/

[seahorse513]

This looks interesting: http://www.nationalclockrepair.com/

After some intensive research, I found someone local.....I really love this clock!!

[Wineslob]

I have this lovely mallard duck mantle clock(I love ducks!). However the internal workings aren't turning. To who would take it too?? A jeweler, or a clocksmith(?)...Any idea of the costs?? any opinions?? advice??

Got a pic of it? I'm guessing it's a mechanical clock?

[Freeper]

If it is easy to take apart you can probably get the parts cheaply at wal mart and replace them.

[Wineslob]

If it is easy to take apart you can probably get the parts cheaply at wal mart and replace them.

 

[longview]

If it is easy to take apart you can probably get the parts cheaply at wal mart and replace them.

Or as my husband used to ask, "Can't ya just buy new guts?"

[vesta111]

I have this lovely mallard duck mantle clock(I love ducks!). However the internal workings aren't turning. To who would take it too?? A jeweler, or a clocksmith(?)...Any idea of the costs?? any opinions?? advice??

Sea right  up my alley,I  began to collect clocks when I received my G-G-gradmothers mantel clock, it was not the clock but the history behind it.

 Over the years the clock had lost allot of it's innards due to being bumped about moved and  mistreated.   It sits alone on the top of the kitchen shelf today, Has not worked in 20 years.   Actually your post caused me to look up and see this clock that had become so much of the background I no longer saw it.  This clock is not made of wood, has lions heads on both sides, made of some material.

Then I have have a clock I bought at a flea market,  Perhaps Austrian, beautiful workmanship with a seal of some country that I never bothered to track down.  was before the PC.      This clock is odd it will not work unless it is completely level, an I gave up on it and put it on display.

Hubby told me his family had a Cookoo clock from the old country so as it had disappeared after his parents death I sent away to buy a replica.  What a mess, I tried time after time that one did not just pull on the chains to wind it, one had to hold the weights on their hand to keep from stripping the gears.

Clocks the time keepers of our lives each tick moves us into the future. Each tick means we still live, and to hear the ticking of an old clock brings our mortal lives into perspective.

[thundley4]

I have this lovely mallard duck mantle clock(I love ducks!). However the internal workings aren't turning. To who would take it too?? A jeweler, or a clocksmith(?)...Any idea of the costs?? any opinions?? advice??

Talk to Mitt Romney, I heard he recently cleaned Obama's clock.   

[seahorse513]

Edited to show image. In the future, don't use HTML code, just the url.

[seahorse513]

[IassaFTots]

Hey!  You posted a picture!!!!

[Chris_]

You might be able to buy a new clock mechanism for that and have it mounted to the back of the face plate on that clock, but that's just a guess.  It shouldn't cost a lot (new clocks are cheap) and you can always save the original and have it repaired.

[seahorse513]

Hey!  You posted a picture!!!!

yes very excited!!!

[Big Dog]

Nice clock!

[IassaFTots]

yes very excited!!!

You will have to let me know how you did it, I have not been successful.

[Chris_]

You will have to let me know how you did it, I have not been successful.

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Put a link to the picture between the IMG brackets (minus the spaces).

[BattleHymn]

Is it battery powered?  If so, for about $5-$6, any hobby shop or Wal-Mart should have replacement movements that you can stick your face dials on to.

I love old clocks.  I'm still shopping for a couple of gut pieces for a Ingraham mantle clock from the 20's/30's, and a main spring for a 1919 Big Ben style 1A.  

[seahorse513]

do you have photobucket??

[Big Dog]

You will have to let me know how you did it, I have not been successful.

Is that the reason we haven't seen your lingerie pictures?

 
 
 

 
 
 

[BattleHymn]

 This clock is not made of wood, has lions heads on both sides, made of some material.

Is it made out of bakelite, vesta?

[longview]

That's a neat looking clock, seahorse.

[seahorse513]

That's a neat looking clock, seahorse.

Thankyou!!

[vesta111]

Is it made out of bakelite, vesta?

I have no idea what it is made of, according to my grandmother this was a wedding gift to her mother in the mid 1800's, I received it in the mid 1970's when she sold out and went into a place that was assisted living..   So she gave away all the trappings of life including 2 other mantel clocks, made of wood, both with double key wind like mine, pocket watches, seems that keeping time was very important to the late generations.

Now I have Mother on the hunt for a watch my Dad had along time ago.  It was one of those that wound itself up just by the movement of the wearers wrist. 

Back to the clock in question , double key wind, lions heads on both sides both lions holding a ring in their mouth.   Front has a either a Greek or Roman theme, decorative columns holding up the flat top, at one time the clock had a bronze statue of horse and rider placed there.  My aunt took that.

I am fascinated however with my flee market find,  double key wind and the innards have some kind of a gizmo's with a definitely European Eagle looks like a symbol for some country over there.  The clock face has no makers name on it so I believe the clock lost the original face and was repaired sometime in the past.

I did find out something interesting at work one day.  Part of my job was to time the lines with a stop watch.  The company gave out the battery type but one worker had a stem wound watch.   I went a looking and could not find any under $100, 20 years ago.
A beautiful piece of work with a face cover, like a pocket watch.   Along with my hunt I also found out that watch fobs  are valuable.

Styles of the late 1800's up to the 1940's had those of wealth take dimes into a jeweler, the back of the dimes was ground off and each dime was engraved with the initials of a family member.   The front intact with the date and the government stamp. These the Jeweler attached together to a chain all on one place to create a watch fob. Mom gave me one that belonged to her grandfather and I passed it on to my son. 

I think I will head for E Bay to see what they have for their clocks, pocket watches etc.

[IassaFTots]

Is that the reason we haven't seen your lingerie pictures?

 
 
 

 
 
 

Uh yeah, that's it.