Let's see some vintage clocks...

Reviving this interesting topic as 170 years ago, in 1852 the chess world decided it was time to put a time limit on the board game.
Already in 1843, a chess match between Howard Staunton and Pierre St. Amant took as long as 14 hours so almost a decade later the idea came up to use three-hour sand glasses to limit duration of play. In the 1870s, chess games were first timed with a time control of 20 moves per hour.
By 1883, a mechanical timing device, dubbed the "tumbling" chess clock was invented by Thomas Bright Wilson of Manchester. It consisted of two identical pendulum clocks and was first used during the 1883 London tournement.
By 1906, The best known analog push-button chess clocks were introduced after a design by Dutch master Veenhoff of Groningen.

This is a batch of clocks made in Hamilton Ontario between 1872 and 1884. It was the first attempt to competing against the American onslaught of clocks. The American manufacturing might prevailed and the company went down the tubes in 1884. The company's name was the Canada Clock Company (Hamilton Clock Compnay for a short time in 1876).

How about this handsome old clock spotted at Bethnal Green Tube station in the east end.

This story about a self-taught Norwegian clockmaker was just posted. He made 4 clocks and this is the last one.


The article in Norwegian: Rasmus Sørnes blei nekta urmakarutdanning, men klarte å lage ei av verdas mest kompliserte klokker – Kultur (nrk.no)

This is the web site in English describing the 4 clocks and Rasmus Sørnes who built them: The search for Rasmus Sørnes' 4th astronomical clock (haveyouseenthisclock.com)

BBC Repair Shop: Incline plane slope Clock Charles Frodsham - London
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