Wall Clocks For Sale
If you're interested in buying any of the clocks featured here, please contact me. Alternatively, you can visit my online shop, where you will find all these items or my other online shop for non-horological items.
While I am happy to post clocks to you, I personally believe it is always better to see them 'in the flesh' before buying and then you can take them with you, avoiding the potential for damage!
If you do not see what you want here please ask, as I have a selection of clocks still awaiting restoration - one of which might be just what you are looking for!
All clocks I sell have been fully overhauled by me personally and are fully guaranteed for one year.
Postmans Alarm Clock
This is a classic Black Forest timepiece alarm clock, with a turned wooden bezel made up of 8 pieces, and is almost undamaged (there is a small nick in the joint at 9.00)
Both the side doors are intact and the joints of the main case are firm.
It has a glass dial (painted on the reverse as you would expect) and comes with replacement weights and a new pendulum.
All parts are held together in the original manner with taper pins (not with steel angle brackets) though the back has additional screws into the top & bottom wooden 'plates' for safety.
Maximum dimensions: wooden bezel 280mm diameter, dial 175mm diameter, depth (from back of case to front of centre arbor)180mm drop required from dial centre to floor 1975mm
£700
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Tableau Comtoise clock
This is a French wall clock which shares a peculiarity with French longcase clocks in that it strikes the hours twice - once at the hour and again a couple of minutes later. In fact the movements are almost identical - with only the gear ratios (to allow for a shorter pendulum) and the motive power being different.
It is a highly decorative clock, with mother-to-pearl floral inlay in dark wood panels in the pale wood ground, all covered by glazing inside the ebonised outer bezel.
This makes the front quite heavy, which normally presents a problem for the hinges at the top of the front as there is generally only one prop to hold it open for winding - resulting in quite a twist. However this clock has one on each side so the hinges are not put under strain.
The dial on this clock is the better quality glass one, painted on the reverse and held to a metal backing plate by the hole-grommets.
Maximum dimensions: 620mm high by 490mm wide by 130mm deep, dial
is 230 mm diameter
£750
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Drop-dial clock
Here I am selling a small drop-dial clock with a German movement of good quality but unidentified maker.
The 'drop' is hinged on the right side with a latch on the left, swinging down in front of the back board (which continues to level with the bottom of the drop) to reveal the pendulum.
It has a nice clear dial, with good colour to the wood.
A very attractive little clock...
Maximum dimensions: wooden bezel is 240mm diameter, the 'drop' below it is 23mm,it is 100mm deep, and the dial is 170mm diameter.
£450
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Dial clock by R Jowes
This is a standard Office Dial clock with a fusee movement of good quality.
The case seems to have been re-finished, and I have not checked on the authenticity of the GWR or the name on the dial.
The dial has been re-painted for me - with nothing added or removed - after re-riveting two of the dial feet.
The movement is resonably modern as fusee movements go, so should give a lifetime or two of good service!
Maximum dimensions: 330mm high by 330mm wide by 135mm deep, dial is 240mm diameter
£875
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Small brass-cased Bulkhead Clock
This clock is one for a connoisseur...
The outside does not give much away, being a simple brass drum with some turned grooves on the side and a plain flat, unsigned cream dial with a small subsidiary seconds dial. The only hint is the very small winding hole...
The movement has, as one would expect, a platform escapement and this is where it starts to get interesting. It is a very early English Lever platform, with the outer end of the hairspring pinned into a separate cock, rather than an extension of the balance cock. The platform plate goes along the width of the clock plates, rather than across the depth of them. The regulator index is connected to lever pivoted at centre of dial & with a pin projecting into a sector slot in the top of dial (hidden by bezel when it is closed)
It has an 8-day movement, sadly also unsigned. The barrel ratchet wheel is exceptionally finely cut with over 50 teeth; just one visible example of the quality of the 5-crossing wheel-work
The front glass is undamaged, 4.5mm thick with a well bevelled edge, and the front bezel has a spring catch operated by the button on the left side
It comes complete with the original double axe-head style winding key, with the square hole still in good condition
It is almost identical to another one I look after, which is signed Parkinson
& Frodsham. I estimate the date of the clock as C.1830.
As with all my clocks, it is fully overhauled and guaranteed
DIMENSIONS - dial diameter: 6” or 152mm (5 1/4” or 133mm chapter ring),
case diameter: 7” or 178mm, case depth: 2” or 51mm.
£500
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Small Fusee Dial Clock by French & Son of London
This is a particularly nice example of a small dial clock, with a slightly convex enamel dial signed French & Son / London.
It has a late model of fusee movement, with plain pillars screwed at both ends. The back plate is stamped 6472 / LONDON just to the right of the bottom left pillar.
The movement is secured in the case by two steel straps running vertically behind the dial, not to the dial plate itself so that the enamel will not get damaged.
There is a slight chip to the bevelled edge of the 4mm-thick front glass (at about 9 minutes past), and there has been some repair-work to the case - but what would you expect?
As with all my clocks, it is fully overhauled and guaranteed
DIMENSIONS - case diameter: 11 1/4” Case depth: 5” (to the front of the glass), dial plate diameter: 7 3/4” chapter ring: 6 5/8”
£750
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Ship's radio-room bulkhead clock
The sinking of the Titanic resulted in the Radio Act of 1912 that required 24-hour radio watches. The disaster also led to clocks in the newer radio rooms featuring three-minute periods marked in red. Those three minutes provided a silent period when only emergency radio messages could be transmitted. The red sector triangles are for 3-minute periods of radio silence on the 500 kcs. distress frequency. Later models featured additional 3-minute green sectors starting at the hour and half-hour for the monitoring of the 2182 kcs. distress frequency.
This particular model has both pairs of sectors - although for some reason the green sectors are actually blue! However, it does not have (and never would have had) the "accurate 4-second marking for accurately transmitting the 4 second alarm signal" as provided for by the International Telecommunication Convention and the International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, as it has no seconds hand. I wonder if it may have not been the primary one in the radio room, but a back-up on a large ship with several radio-operators on duty at any given time - possibly for an operator sending passengers' messages from a liner?
The dial is signed Marti - a very reputable maker - and the case back is stamped "S Marti / Montbeliard" and "Grand Prix / Paris 1931" - so clearly the clock was made in or after 1931!
The bezel is a simple bayonet fit onto the case, and has a beveled glass in front of a silvered sight-ring, giving a visible dial diameter of approximately 91mm.
It has a small (unsigned) 8-day drum movement (58mm diameter, rather than the normal 90mm), and a jeweled Swiss-lever platform with screwed-on plates for the balance endstones.
Maximum dimensions: Flange (with screw-holes for mounting to bulkhead) 125mm, Main body of clock 103mm, Bezel 109mm, Depth with bezel fitted 43.5mm, Minimum depth to allow for removal of bezel 56mm
£450
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