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oldhippy

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It's a strange looking clock. the case doesn't look right to me but having said that the front and back plates have been grooved. The bell doesn't look original. On his web site he claims they are Fully trained and hugely experienced horologists but the taper pins on the front have been cut with side cutters and not finished off to an acceptable standard, in my opinion.

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Must say ojojojoj the steampunk version of a clock from the series “The league of S.T.E.M.”, hence the price.
@oldhippy, before you pop away a post like this you have to put out a warning sign, someone
might just out of chock pop their eyes out with a couple of forks, or just lose their lust of living ?

Forgott to put out the link of the three clockmakers responsible of this creation.

 

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So sad.

Parts of that clock seem very old.

Modern base, 20th century bell, screws on the back of the dial are modern.

The dial looks like something I could make and that's not a compliment.

I would be interested in seeing it up close, but as to buying it over the internet for their starting price I'm running away very fast.

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It's definitely a talking piece! it would make a good example of what to look for when trying to find genuine antique clocks - or rather what to look out for! Hopefully the price will scare everyone away as it looks like a lemon to me!

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On 5/14/2021 at 1:13 PM, HSL said:

before you pop away a post like this you have to put out a warning sign, someone
might just out of chock pop their eyes out with a couple of forks, or just lose their lust of living

In other words,  a trigger warning ?

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I think this is shoddy miss match. I'm not sure if it is even English, to me the bell is not right, it is more like the design of a Dutch bell. I think the whole bell bracket including bell is a replacement. The screw that hold it is a cheese head screw, the others are not. The alarm hand is a replacement. He says the board it sits on is not original, that is definitely right. Wrong screw fitted to the balance cock not original, what a shoddy steel pin fitted to the hole, never even bothered to trim it up to the correct size, it should have been brass. The screw that holds the calendar wheel in place is again different. The two brass? finials are odd. 

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There's a lot going on there.  I know more about watches than about clocks.  But intuition would have me give that piece a wide berth.  It kinda looks like someone wanted to get it running well enough to *say* it ran, so it would sell.  So they raided a parts bin first, and then cut out a seconds hand with some tin snips, made a steel taper pin and guessed at the length, and slapped photos on Ebay.  That's a guess, but that's what my intuition would be whispering to me as I looked at the pictures.

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