Prestige Clock Repair
After over two decades of offering clock repair services to the public, Prestige Clock Repair closed its doors on May 30, 2023. Thank you for your patronage.
We serviced American and European clocks of all ages.
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I was cleaning up my email inbox and ran across this link. It's an article on the Collectors Weekly site that was based on an interview I gave about 15 years ago. The writer did a very good job of transcribing our conversation, and I must say I spouted some pretty good information. I think I may have posted this link a long time ago, but I have a lot of new friends now, so I'll go ahead and post it again. If the subject of antique clocks sounds interesting, I hope you'll give it a look!
The Care and Repair of 19th-Century American Clocks Dave Weisbart talks about 19th-century clocks, discussing notable manufacturers and designs and sharing his experience with clock repairs. Dave is the ow...
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Cool gothic-style clock from the movie The Stranger starring Edward G Robinson, Loretta Young and Orson Wells. It looks like it has moving figures.
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I ran across a very strange issue with a striking clock. A gear that was supposed to stop in a particular rotational position after every striking sequence was instead stopping at different positions each time the clock struck the hour. This was causing a problem with the way it interacted with other parts of the movement. I figured out three things: (1) that wheel was supposed to have an 8-leaf pinion, but it had a 7-leaf pinion, so the gear was stopping in increments of 1/7 of a rotation. (2) I figured out and implemented a relatively simple workaround that didn't involve disassembling the movement. (3) Just for ducks, I put the strike sequence (1,1,2,1,3,1,4,1, etc.) into an Excel spreadsheet and found that the most problematic position for the gear occurred 13 times over a two-day period. Having already "fixed" the issue, this was kind of meaningless, but it was a fun exercise to provide nested "IF" statements to Excel to get the desired results. (Yeah, I'm a nerd.)
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