The new clock

Sunday saw my second visit to TB in two days, on this second occasion to admire my new clock. Also to admire the art work snapped above, lurking in the interior of the plague tent, the tent in which we have taken lunch before now.

The new-to-me clock was retrieved from the top of a litter bin, one of those enclosed ones that is, in Ewell Village, in the course of my Sunday Ewell Village anti-clockwise. A substantial affair, weighing in at 3lbs 6.5oz, I should think from the 1950's. The body is wooden, and the action plastic, so the weight must come from the metal trim. Maybe even real metal, rather than cunningly plated plastic.

There was no battery and it looks from the way that a layer of the wood has been cut away that a cover to the movement has been lost. But at least the clock was made in England by Metamec, even if the movement is foreign. Quite nicely made, I might say, with all the metalwork properly finished off.

An Energiser battery did not bring it to life, but a Duracell battery followed by a good shake did, and it now seems to be keeping time. There is also a faint tick.

The clock has now been given pride of place on top of the new-to-me bookcase in the study, as noticed at reference 1, where it looks rather well. The only down side being that it does not have luminous hands and there needs quite good lighting if one is to tell the time.

PS: funny how one's tastes change with time. If I had come across this clock forty years ago, it would have been thrown away as so much tiresome rubbish from the fifties.

References

Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamec.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/02/new-to-me-bookcase.html.

Reference 3: https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Metamec-Collectable-Clocks/261602/bn_59498058. Ebay clearly has lots of them, although I did not spot this particular one.