etmb61
NAWCC Member
I'll start.
I happen to like torsion clocks almost to the exclusion of all others. That wasn't always true. Back when I was working my wife inherited one from her grandfather. It was quartz and broken and though she loved her grandfather she had no desire to keep the clock. We sold it at a yard sale. One of my coworkers at the time enjoyed collecting clocks. He was keen to find an Atmos and told me about them. After some research I figured I'd never get one so I let the idea go.
After I retired I picked up a couple of old gravity pendulum clocks that I didn't think that much of just to mess with. I was wanting an octagon school house clock. I just like the style. I still couldn't see why anyone would want to mess with an anniversary clock.
I found my first torsion clock, an Atmos, at a consignment shop. Gave it a glance and walked right past it. After digging through the old junk tools I looked the Atmos over, realized what it was, and practically ran out of the shop with it!
After spending some time learning about it, they're very interesting you know, I figured I'd give the other anniversary clocks a second look.
Some time later I acquired my first 400 day clock off ebay. It's a 1952 Schatz with the smaller "pie pan" dial. It was missing the pendulum cup and bottom block. After fixing the suspension it worked right off. I should service it some day.
Now I have so many I've had to stop buying them. There are still a few on my wish list though. I have enough to keep me busy for a few years.
One thing I always did was try to find the date the clock was made and what it would have cost, then see what was going on in its world at the time. I'm a bit nuts.
So how did the rest of y'all get started?
Eric
I happen to like torsion clocks almost to the exclusion of all others. That wasn't always true. Back when I was working my wife inherited one from her grandfather. It was quartz and broken and though she loved her grandfather she had no desire to keep the clock. We sold it at a yard sale. One of my coworkers at the time enjoyed collecting clocks. He was keen to find an Atmos and told me about them. After some research I figured I'd never get one so I let the idea go.
After I retired I picked up a couple of old gravity pendulum clocks that I didn't think that much of just to mess with. I was wanting an octagon school house clock. I just like the style. I still couldn't see why anyone would want to mess with an anniversary clock.
I found my first torsion clock, an Atmos, at a consignment shop. Gave it a glance and walked right past it. After digging through the old junk tools I looked the Atmos over, realized what it was, and practically ran out of the shop with it!

After spending some time learning about it, they're very interesting you know, I figured I'd give the other anniversary clocks a second look.
Some time later I acquired my first 400 day clock off ebay. It's a 1952 Schatz with the smaller "pie pan" dial. It was missing the pendulum cup and bottom block. After fixing the suspension it worked right off. I should service it some day.

Now I have so many I've had to stop buying them. There are still a few on my wish list though. I have enough to keep me busy for a few years.
One thing I always did was try to find the date the clock was made and what it would have cost, then see what was going on in its world at the time. I'm a bit nuts.
So how did the rest of y'all get started?
Eric