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My wife bought me the same kit for Christmas from Amazon. I haven't started on it yet, but I might this weekend. Everything is laser-cut, but as the previous person said, you'll have to sand the pieces to get them smooth.

You can also get a nice little toy clock with plastic gears and a see-though case. It doesn't take long to put together, but it's still pretty cool. Not terribly accurate, but I didn't expect that for the price. That was Christmas two years ago. I asked for it mostly to show to my grandchildren.

One of the related items is a plastic da Vinci "clock". It doesn't really tell time, as it only runs for a minute or two, but the mechanism is pretty cool. That was Christmas for me last year. ☺ I bought some lead fishing weights to replace the one that came with it. It's supposed to use coins for the weight, I suppose, but the little container kept getting caught up in the works. The 2g teardrop-shaped weight I bought works better.

The mechanical Omega's & Tissot's all have value to them. Especially the mechanical multi function watches. I would recommend picking up The Complete Price Guide To Watches. There is a great section on wristwatches in there that should give you an idea of the value. bear in mind, Case wear/scratches, Parts missing (like the crown/stem), corrosion and not running mechanism all decrease the value. Also, the pocket watch section is great as well. According to the book, the year your Pocket watch was made in 1906 based on the 14,306,805 serial number. Good luck!

I am new to this clocks subreddit, but as far as I know you'll have to choose:

Option A would be to go for a clock that you can match exactly to the school clocks that is very precise (that is, drifts as little as possible). If the 'school clock' however is not somehow synchronized regularly there is no way in which you can get them perfectly synchronized.

Option B would be better if you'd ask me, and that is to go for a radio-controlled clock. These can be either analog or digital, with or without seconds or date display, and more importantly is that they automatically synchronize every day. So even if it would drift a few seconds a day, the time would still be perfectly synchronized at least once a day. You could go for something like this (digital), or this (analog), or this (analog, with digital seconds)... you'll get the point that there is no virtually no limit to what kind of clock you can choose from there!

Do you want them to be all the same? One time I made a world time display with all my spare cheap clocks (at a certain point you can get so many that you either have to put some away, or display them together somehow!) but I agree that having them all the same is rather more classy.

It's unfortunate IKEA doesn't make the SKARP anymore, which had a flat glass lens. Walmart used to sell this clock which had a flat glass lens. Target has similar ones. Muji has some nice clean clocks but they're not particularly cheap.

I recommend you get clocks without a second hand, or remove the second hand if it comes with one – it will make the ticking quieter (less load on the mechanism), and you won't get annoyed when the clocks inevitably fall out of sync. Or you could avoid the sync problem by getting vintage electric clocks (which will stay in sync because they get their timing from the power company), or radio-controlled clocks (but these are pricey and limited in the zones they can display).

Hope that's of some help!

Looking at this and your other one, I think these are both pretty cheap clocks to be honest.

This one by the looks of it is a battery clock with a veneered chipboard casing to make it up into a grandfather clock size. The clue is the red second hand. The type of wood, the fact the casing doesn't close up, it's just an open support structure for the clock face, and the fact that by the looks of it it's an ordinary battery pendulum movement suggests it's not worth much to be honest.

The other one is just a fairly basic mechanical clock. The model is pretty common, it took me less than a minute to find a picture of a very similar model. Models like this come with various different manufacturer names stuck onto it, which suggests the clock itself is a very cheap one, probably Chinese manufactured, and then different rebranders just stick their own name on it. I'd be surprised if it was more than about 20-30 years old.

That's not including the unfortunate point that the casing of yours is quite badly damaged.

Sorry, there's not much money to be had in either of them I don't think.

It's actually pretty easy. You can use almost any kind of drive you want. Electric, battery operated would be by far the easiest. You'd keep the case, AND the clock face. Remove the hands that came with it, remove the clockworks, then replace it with something like this $8 buck one from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Hobbies-Movement-C91MQS-Thickness/dp/B01N7WOWU3/

Like this (https://www.amazon.com/Recycled-Moon-Phase-Wall-Clock/dp/B01FSTC7VM) but with an hour hand also?

If you're really looking to make your own clock from scratch, you might want to check out this book. It shows you how to make your own clock out of paper. It's pretty tedious because for instance, to make a gear, you have to cut the two sides of the gear out and then wrap a third thin strip of paper around each tooth. The book has you cut out the parts and assemble them, but you could trace them and cut them out of some pretty thin wood.

As far as the self-immolating feature, this pendulum clock is gravity fed, so you could just make a mechanism that would be triggered by the weight. Just lengthen the string so that it gives you 7 days of non-stop clockage.

Hey, if the string is a fuse, you could have the weight slowly lower itself into a flame :)

> Are clock keys fairly interchangeable

Some are. :)

https://smile.amazon.com/SE-JT6336-2-Universal-Winding-Numbers/dp/B0040ZZTNY

Although you need to know if its worth buying. Does the pin in the hole have a square end on it? If so, that's probably the winding hole.

I have been thinking about getting this Seiko clock. I think it has a similar aesthetic. I don't own it so I can't say first hand, but it has good reviews.

If you want one that does everything that clock does (chime and swinging pendulum) you can it it on amazon for about $40. As mentioned above the repair itself is very simple and all the mounting hardware should come with it.

Westminster Chime Pendulum Clock Movement Complete With Hands https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0197B7E9M/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_54HgAbQZ4JQEA

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MSP7IHV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_C29-yb0F659E7

https://www.amazon.com/Torre-Tagus-901296-Woodpecker-Motion/dp/B00E3RGWTO

http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Working-Paper-Clock/dp/0060910666