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rlwindle
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This clock and I share something in common a 1950 natal year, however it is older than me by some number of months, I was born on the 14th of November in 1950. The clock runs and chimes, but hums very lightly after a few hours. The glass over the face of the clock is foged over and as soon as I figure out to get the movement and chimes out I will clean it.
The chimes can be turned on and off by a lever in the inside of the clock. The chimes sound mechincal and do not reverberate like an analog clock so I leave the chimes off. Electric clocks have never emulated their analog ancestors very well. There are however some quartz movements that chime just like an analog.
Art Deco ClocksClock design was heavily influenced in the 1920s and ’30s by Art Deco, a ma…