thought I’d share a recent acquisition.
Near as I can tell it’s a 1952 General Electic Telechron clock. It has a translucent glass dial, and sockets for 2 e26 bulbs. I cleaned it up a little, installed a couple of 25 watt equivalent led’s and placed it in my garage for very accurate time keeping and night light functions.
My wife loves it and I smile every time I see its home-made broad arrow second hand !!
Anyone else have a Telechron???

 

Nice was the movement changed from an electric controlled movement? Or original wall plug?

 

This particular clock has always been an independent unit having it's own wall plug and is controlled by a separately packaged gear reduction rotor (motor) unit, captive in an 110v electromagnet, driving a fairly conventional clock movement. It keeps remarkable time and is about 16" in diameter.
I received it from a third party who claimed it used to hang in one of the old Caterpillar Tractor assembly buildings (now razed) in East Peoria, Il.
The Broad Arrow Second hand, I'm sure is not from General Electric, but probably was modified by someone at Caterpillar. I say that because, the Arrow head is perfectly symmetrical and is attached by two tiny rivets to the sweep second hand..... that part was expertly done, but then someone taped a counter weight on the other end.... NOT expertly done.. Then the whole hand was painted red.. I wonder if it served a function for timing some manufacturing operation.. I've also not seen another second hand like that on any Google search I've done. At any rate, I'm glad to have it. Tomorrow, I'll see if I can get a photo posted of another vintage Telechron clock I have in the basement.
Hope you all had a good weekend.

 

My wife recently picked this up on Offerup. It uses a D battery, and ticked too loud for her to sleep at night.

 

Here’s another telechron clock.
I remember this in our kitchen while growing up in the 60’s

 

The company was founded by Henry Warren, in the early days of 50 and 60 cycle hydro generated power. The motors are synchronous, relying on a steady 50 cycle (in some areas), or 60 cycle power. The company was originally know as Warren Telechron. The Tele implies “far away”, chron, meaning “timekeeping”. These clocks tell time, but if the power source varied (as they did in the early days), the clocks would gain or lose. There is a Wikipedia article on the company.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telechron

Sessions was another clock company who was big in synchronous clocks. One interesting clock of their production was the Lady Sessions, a bed table clock. It was designed to help m’lady in her (ahem) family planning endeavours.

 

I’ve got a brand new one. Someone purchased the rights to the name. I’ll post a picture.

 

General Electric, as referenced in the article I linked to.

 

No more recently. I’ve got one that was not GE, purchased new. There are a few styles from them on Amazon and when I got mine no GE branding.

Telechron Wooden Starburst Clock https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002C5KK1A/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_

 

Cool clock. It has a mechanism that shows if your power went out momentarily: a red disk flips into place behind the hole in the dial above the word "Telechron." If it shows red, you need to reset the clock. It's more often seen on alarm clocks, but a fairly common feature for these vintage pieces.

 

Your timing is uncanny!!
We lost power for about a half hour last night and when I went downstairs this afternoon to reset two clocks, I found the red indicator displayed. It, of course reset to white when I advanced it to the correct time.


And thanks to all for your participation in this... It's been fun and educational !!!!
Tom

 

Don’t know if it’s a Telechron, but it’s at a local store.