Who is the Clock's manufacturer

[bartman1983]

I am trying to figure out who made the clock I’ve looked and looked for the manufacturer and I do not know who it is if anyone knows please let me know

 

[JTD]

I think this is the trade mark of Tomoe Co (Japan) but if you can take the movement out of the case and show us photos of the back plate it might be possible to be more definite.

JTD

 

[J. A. Olson]

This is the trademark of the Tomoe Company of Japan. Trademark is confirmed on the Mikrolisk website but no date of registration. The Japanese clock manufacturers had a field day copying American movement outlines and successfully ousting American involvement in the Japanese market. This interesting discussion was found in a 1912 document regarding domestic and foreign clock manufacturers:



In reality the clock industry was tough, vicious, dog-eat-dog, and simply brutal for many involved. But we got many nice timepieces out of all this.