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Antique American Clocks
German closed-well swinger chime, ca. 1900.
No maker evident on this 32.5-inch walnut (?) case or
on the movement.
It has an unusual strike, playing the complete Westminster chimes on four rods at each quarter-hour, followed
by a double-strike on a 5
rod once for each quarter-hour, and followed by a strike to count the hours on the hour.
It's complicated,
but it seems to be working.
There is a silvered metal dial with a bronze inset to match the large pendulum bob, behind a lower
The dial glass is curved.
An interesting model I've not seen before.
Nelson Timken tells me the
movement is a pre-WWII Junghans movement.