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	<description>Commentary about clock repair and clock history from Bill's Clockworks and ClockHistory.com</description>
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		<title>Jahresuhrenfabrik 400 Day Clock ca. 1949</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a Jahresuhrenfabrik (Year Clock Company) 400 day clock made about 1949 in Germany. This company&#8217;s clocks were given the name Schatz soon after this. This clock has an attractive and unusual style of bezel around the dial, with wide front section and embossed decoration. The movement has the same gearing as older Jahresuhrenfabrik [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clockinfo.com/posts/2120</link>
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		<title>Setting Your Mechanical Clock Ahead to Daylight Saving Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daylight Saving Time in the USA officially starts Sunday March 14, 20010 at 2:00 a.m. You will need to set your clocks forward one hour. I recommend doing this before you go to bed on Saturday night (March 13th).
On the vast majority of clocks, it is okay to set the hands forward one hour. When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clockinfo.com/posts/211</link>
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		<title>Kundo Miniature 400 Day Clock Similar to a Schatz London Coach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Kundo miniature 400 day clock from the 1950s has a case similar to the Schatz &#8220;London Coach&#8221;. it is 8 1/4 inches tall (including finial). The side panels and rear panel are glass with a molded pattern. The front panel is plain glass.
I cleaned the movement, straightened the hand shaft and replaced the mainspring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clockinfo.com/posts/2095</link>
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		<title>Schatz Standard 400 Day Clock with Silver Dial, Made Sept. 1954</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Schatz standard 400 day clock was made in September, 1954 (date code 9 54 on the rear of the movement). It has a beautiful engraved, silvered brass dial.
I cleaned the movement, polished several pivots, replaced the suspension spring and mainspring, and polished and lacquered the case and pendulum (one of the photos below shows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clockinfo.com/posts/2080</link>
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		<title>Do Not Unwind Your Clock if You Think  It Is &#8220;Wound Too Tight!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your clock has stopped working and you think it is &#8220;wound too tight&#8221;, DON&#8217;T TRY TO UNWIND IT! You will just break it worse.
I just received a Schatz 400 day anniversary clock that was made in April 1953. Someone pushed on the &#8220;click&#8221; (the device that clicks as you wind the mainspring). It unwound [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clockinfo.com/posts/2075</link>
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		<title>A 1954 Schatz 1000 Day Clock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Schatz (Aug. Schatz &#38; Sohne) made this 1000 day clock in November 1954 (it has date code 11 54 on the rear of the movement). This is the earlier movement style with straight legs. Around mid-1955, Schatz changed the plate design to have curved legs (see this article for a view of the curved leg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clockinfo.com/posts/2055</link>
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		<title>Kundo and Welby Standard 400 day Clocks with Large Dial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These 2 clocks have large dials with 3 5/8 inch time track (the standard dial has 3 1/4 inch time track). They have attractive skeleton hands. Kundo made both clocks. The left one says &#8220;Welby&#8221; on the dial and movement.
The left one has the type of pendulum used for many years (it has a slot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clockinfo.com/posts/2025</link>
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		<title>Seth Thomas Office No. 6 Wall Clock ca. 1924</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Seth Thomas &#8220;Office No. 6&#8243; is a wall clock in a rectangular wooden case. Time-only and time and strike versions were available. The earlier ones had a removable scroll top and a bracket base, but by 1924 it was being made in a plain case.
This example looks similar to that in the photo labeled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clockinfo.com/posts/2004</link>
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		<title>Welch, Spring &amp; Co. &#8220;Verdi&#8221; Drop Octagon Wall Clock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Verdi&#8221; drop octagon wall clock was made from 1877 to 1893. From 1877 to 1885 it was made with a Welch, Spring and Company label; after that it had an E. N. Welch Manufacturing Company label. The case is rosewood veneered, 31 inches long, 12 inch dial (11 inch minute track).
This example has an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clockinfo.com/posts/1995</link>
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		<title>Two Seth Thomas &#8220;Plymouth&#8221; Tambour Mantel Clocks, 1938 and 1945</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These two &#8220;Plymouth&#8221; tambour mantel clocks made by Seth Thomas came into my shop just a couple of days apart. They are similar but have different movements. Both have lively hour and half hour strike on two chime rods.
Plymouth was a name that Seth Thomas put on some clocks ca. 1930 &#8211; 1950. If anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clockinfo.com/posts/1962</link>
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