Went to an estate sale today to buy some furniture and came across this clock. Its an old wind up clock and I thought it would be nice to have on the wall.

well... I got home and found out this thing has 5 initials and dates on it. I assume they are from the previous owners

The earliest one is 1907... This thing is over 100 years old and still ticking 😀

Needless to say I love this thing now. it feels awesome to have something so old and that has been taken care of by so many people

So now its hanging on my wall. a 100 year old method of keeping time sitting right next to the most modern way of keeping time, the block clock 😀

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old screws/nice brass

signs

Is that how you tell how old it is? I wasn't looking when I bought it but that does make sense

brass screws haven't been common since the early 80s at least, that's when china started taking over and since then everything is this generic muck steel that when it's supposed to be stainless, rusts

the best typical chinese made fasteners have to be ones that have that gold looking nitride coating on them, that coating is very hard wearing... titanium nitride i think it is? i forget... but everything else is garbage nowadays

yes, one way...good sign

Beautiful. I feel similarly when I'm sitting in my nearly 300 year old house building radically new personal server VM tech :)

u youngsters! LFG!

This is about as old as you can get in the US. My house was built before this was a country.

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that's really cool!

Be sure to add your initials and date, too.

Definitively, just didn't want to dox myself for the picture 😀

So happy you made it to an estate sale! I live for treasure finding posts like this. 😍

tick tock, nice clock!

Clocks make one of the best kinds of heirlooms

mixed feelings about this. on one hand i am 100% for making things last as long as possible if they still function. on other hand i am not sure this clock actually "functions" by modern standards.

i mean even if it runs as well as it did on day one it will simply never be as accurate as a clock that is synced to the internet or to the atomic clock radio signal or clock signal from GPS satellites.

recently i realized my windows clock was out of sync with my phone clock - turns out the option to automatically set clock in windows was turned off - i was annoyed by that but it was an easy fix.

bottom line - i would never buy a clock or watch of any kind if it wasn't always accurate to a fraction of a second, which is only possible for a clock that is synchronized to an external accurate source.

that's just me though. my 98 year old grandma loved having lots of clocks even if some of them were off by like 20 minutes. her main issue was she didn't know if the time was AM or PM so i would have to explain to her that " it's 10 o'clock and sun is shining so it's AM " and so on ...

my other issue with your clock is redundancy. i hate it when things are redundant for no reason. i try to keep multiple copies of all my data because i don't want to accidentally lose it. but you don't need to keep multiple redundant copies of time that all gets synchronized to the same atomic clock.

that said. although i used to buy furniture new in the past i have switched to 100% used furniture now because a table is a table. i would rather spend money on computers because a new computers is actually different from an old one.

I love clocks. 🤩 Lucky find!

getting a serious old school wind up pendulum tick tock clock is high on my agenda in the near future, plus a decent sundial, so i can set the thing to accurate on a weekly/monthly basis

right now i have a cacophony of church clocks, literally 3 that chime in earshot, it's quite hilarious how out of sync they are but the time of travel of the sound is quite shocking too... i mean, you know the story, 5 seconds = 1km... for real, probably these clocks are accurate to the internet time but they are hilarious

We can hear the churchbells from our village and, when the wind is right, also from the next village.

one thing i am 100% in favor of from the catholic church: clock chimes