Hello everyone,
I'm very new to the forum and fairly new to Horology as a hobby.
Here Germany once a month there is a Sperrmüll where people put things out for the "Bin lorry" to be taken to the dump - but people scout around beforehand for "useful" items.
My wife spotted this clock destined for the rubbish dump in a pile of "Sperrmüll" and but bought it home for me. Someone had removed the striking train and looked like it had also been drenched in oil and then left in a dusty basement!
I have stripped, cleaned and reassembled it with a new pendulum suspension spring and it seems to keep good time.
It may be a very generic movement and clock, however I am pleased I managed to salvage it from being crushed up and unceremoniously dumped. It has also sparked my interest in practical horology.
I'm very new to the forum and fairly new to Horology as a hobby.
Here Germany once a month there is a Sperrmüll where people put things out for the "Bin lorry" to be taken to the dump - but people scout around beforehand for "useful" items.
My wife spotted this clock destined for the rubbish dump in a pile of "Sperrmüll" and but bought it home for me. Someone had removed the striking train and looked like it had also been drenched in oil and then left in a dusty basement!



I have stripped, cleaned and reassembled it with a new pendulum suspension spring and it seems to keep good time.
It may be a very generic movement and clock, however I am pleased I managed to salvage it from being crushed up and unceremoniously dumped. It has also sparked my interest in practical horology.

