Camerer Kuss timepiece Bracket Clock

[Jezster18]

My wife wanted this clock for her birthday, so my son bought it for her.
The seller said it only ran for 2 minutes & stopped, I was not surprised when I took the works out to find it was dirty, so I took it apart, dismantled & cleaned it & the pivot holes, it's now on test constantly ticking, the dial has taken a knock with the key in the past & its left 2 hairline fractures, I'm still trying to get it the best I can & have bought a brass grommet which i'm hoping comes tomorrow so I can hopefully help the winding hole look better.
The good news is, it has it's original label on the door & pendulum, nice walnut veneer & embossed leather decoration in a Gothic style, so not a bad buy at the end of the day.
Advice in the past from this forum, showed me there are no short cuts to cleaning a works, I still hope to improve more & it takes my mind away from other things.

 

[JTD]

As far as I am aware Camerer, Kuss & Co. (later Camerer, Cuss & Co.) did not make any clocks themselves, they bought in the movements from other manufacturers and sold them under the Camerer, Kuss Co. name.

Although the movement of your clock looks somewhat familiar, I am unable to identify it from the photos, but there are people on here who probably can.

Yes, it was dirty but it is a relatively simple movement so you would not have had too much difficulty doing so and it looks a whole lot better now.

The dial doesn't look too bad to me. You could try soaking it in fizzy denture cleaner to try and reduce the hairlines (the denture cleaner tablets get out the dirt embedded in the hairlines) but it really doesn't look too bad.

Nice clock.

JTD

 

[gmorse]

Hi Jezster18,

Although the numerals on the dial would have been fired into the enamel and are therefore permanent, the signature on it probably would not have been, being inked or painted on post manufacture, and it may react badly to cleaning. Denture cleaner is excellent for improving the appearance of hairlined enamel dials but a small test first on that signature would be prudent. The picture is rather too small to see clearly, but I think the signature has been 'touched up' in the past.

I think Camerer Kuss changed their name to Camerer Cuss some time in WW1 because of its German connotations.

Regards,

Graham

 

[Jezster18]

As far as I am aware Camerer, Kuss & Co. (later Camerer, Cuss & Co.) did not make any clocks themselves, they bought in the movements from other manufacturers and sold them under the Camerer, Kuss Co. name.

Although the movement of your clock looks somewhat familiar, I am unable to identify it from the photos, but there are people on here who probably can.

Yes, it was dirty but it is a relatively simple movement so you would not have had too much difficulty doing so and it looks a whole lot better now.

The dial doesn't look too bad to me. You could try soaking it in fizzy denture cleaner to try and reduce the hairlines (the denture cleaner tablets get out the dirt embedded in the hairlines) but it really doesn't look too bad.

Nice clock.

JTD

Hi, yes a very simple movement, unfortunately I have hands like shovels & suffer from parathesia in my body, so nothing feels real that I touch, the pivots are very fine & it took some doing, as I was being extra careful not to catch the pivots under the top plate & break them as I put it back together.