My favorite electric clocks.

[HobieSport]

I recently "fell in love" with this Westlox "Andover" electric clock.  

U.S. 1938-1942.

She needs a new electrical cable but she is beautiful in my humble opinion.

[foots]

Wow, I hadn't realized that the blue part was transparent. That is a beautiful clock.

[HobieSport]

My other favorite electric clock is an "Ingraham Sentinal Wafer"  Designed by Henry Dreyfuss and they first came out in 1940. I have a couple of these so will sell one on Ebay. Prices vary on these a lot, and the chrome is often bad and the faces can be yellowed.

[McHeath]

Really nice clocks!  I'm gonna risk it, but I think they may fall under the

"Art-Deco"

design style.

(I can hear the rifles cocking from here!)   

[HobieSport]

Here's some more info on the Westclox Andover and the Ingraham Wafer:

http://www.vintagewestclox.com/images/gallery/andover_1939.html

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2460

Does anyone on the forum have other pre-war or mid-century electric clocks of any make/design to show and tell? I know clocks were also discussed in the "what else do we collect" thread.

Yes, I would indeed like to know if these two pre-war clocks can really be considered Art Deco without further abusing or stretching the term. And if not, why not? Any comments appreciated.

[HobieSport]

Here's one for you, McHeath

I'm just learning about these right now. I think they are Westclox model 707.

Sure looks 1960s Googie to me, eh? A bit late for googie, but googie nonetheless in my googie opinion.

http://www.vintageclocks4u.com/Gallery/westclox/westclox.htm

[McHeath]

Like major cool!  Love Googie stuff like this, as well as very modernist art, and have scattered quite a bit of it around the house.  Amusingly not too many of the extended family like it, last month my aunts and uncle were out visiting from the mid-west and were none too sure what to think of it all.

[HobieSport]

Yessir, McHeath, you and I have discussed the Googie style quiet a bit, so that's why I immediately thought "McHeath!" when I first saw the Westclox 707.

I'm not sure if I'd like to live with Googie items in my house day to day, though I certainly appreciate the Googie/Atomic Era.

Here's a pic of a rather "futuristic" Westclox. I don't know it's name or model number, I think it's a Big Ben and was made in by Westclox Scotland. (Och Aye, our hoom country. )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westclox_Scotland

[HobieSport]

Here is just a smattering of pics of some other clocks that please me, not necessarily pre-war or electric. I don't know anything about clocks. Just that these catch my eye.

[HobieSport]

...and just two more clock pics:

[bwanna]

i like the old clocks too. tho, i don't have any as cool as these!

mc heath, you took the "art deco" right out of my mouth

[Dan/Panther]

Matt;
I have a clock like that somewhere, I never realized how nice it looked, until now, I hope I kept it. I think mine just has clear plastic.
It does ooze Art Deco.
D/P

[HobieSport]

Dan/P, It would be interesting if you could find the deco clock that you may have and post a pic and find out what make and model it is. Do you recall the basic shape of your clock (round, square, rectangular etc.)?

Clocks and telephones seem to sort of go hand in hand to me, being utilitarian items for daily use, with mechanical and electrical parts, and lots of room for different designs.

The Telechron clock company really interests me; how clocks were tied into the electrical grid to keep accurate time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telechron

http://www.telechrontime.net/main.shtml

Fascinating.

[bingster]

Now you're talking my language!!  I've collected Telechrons for probably twenty years.  They're amazing devices, and if the rotor is in good condition they're dead accurate always.

[HobieSport]

Now you're talking my language!!  I've collected Telechrons for probably twenty years.  They're amazing devices, and if the rotor is in good condition they're dead accurate always.

Oh Goody, Bingster! Can/would you post pics of some of your Telechrons? Pretty please? Truth to tell, until just yesterday, I didn't even know what a Telechron was, and I'm already hooked. Telephones and Telechrons. Seems like a happy union to me.

I getting a Telechron model 8H55 "Selector" clock/timer,circa 1945-49:
http://www.telechrontime.net/postwar/8h55.htm

I'd love to have one of the earlier pre-war clock/timers, but the 8H55s are just so much more available and affordable. Here's one of the earlier wooden case clock/timers with a description of how the timer works: http://www.telechrontime.net/goldenage/8b51.htm

I know they were used to pre-program radios to go on and off, as an alarm or to listen to one's favorite radio programs, or to make coffee in the morning (max capacity 1650 watts) but it might also be "just the ticket" to use as a timer for my egg laying ducks during the Winter.

(The trick is to extend the daylight hours in the duck house a little every evening and morning, with a 15 watt bulb on a timer, to fool the ducks' bio-clocks into thinking it's not Winter, thus they continue to lay eggs at full throttle. I find it rather amusing that the Telechron will keep perfect time by running on 60 cycles of electricity, thus timing the light bulb, thus causing the ducks' bio-clocks to produce more eggs...well..."like clockwork". Ah, high-tech mid-century duck farming at it's finest.)

Anyway, I'd love to see some pics of your Telechrons. What are your favorite models?