Hey! Who else has a wall clock?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

It's probably about 100 years old, and I just love it....

I see it when I'm here at my computer!

[democracyindanger]

1. I've always wanted

a Soviet submarine clock, but the price is pretty steep:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. That's a very cool clock!

How much do they cost?

:hi:

[democracyindanger]

3. 'Round $200

:(

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Maybe you could save your money?

Or is your situation just not too good right now?

Sorry! :hug:

[democracyindanger]

9. I could get it

I just can't justify it--especially since clocks and watches do nothing for my chronic tardiness.

Ah, Peggy, always the kind optimist. :)

[Guava Jelly]

36. found a few on ebay under 150 bucks

http://cgi.ebay.com/Soviet-Russian-Submarine-Clock-Wind-up-MIB_W0QQitemZ102250651156QQihZ010QQcategoryZ3930QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Soviet-8-day-5CM-NAVY-Submarine-Clock-RED-OCTOBER-MINT_W0QQitemZ6639263376QQihZ012QQcategoryZ3931QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Soviet-Russian-Navy-Ship-Submarine-Antimagnet-Clock_W0QQitemZ160001335266QQihZ006QQcategoryZ66533QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
not exactly the same style
but ebay is a pretty cool place to get those type of items

[Haole Girl]

5. I don't have a wall clock, but I wish I'd kept my parents'

When we were growing up, they had a Swiss Coo Coo Clock similar to the pic below:



I still miss that thing!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Oh, my dear KC2!

My parents had one those too!

I still remember them winding it, and the cuckoo coming out .....

Good times, good times!

:hug:

[RevCheesehead]

6. My Dad has an old schoolhouse clock.

It will be handed down to me, someday. Believe me, I am in no hurry to inherit it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear Rev!

I am sure you are not......:hug:

And I hope that it will be a good number of years before you do inherit that lovely clock from your dad.....:loveya: :hug:

Mine was a gift from my parents to me.....

[RevCheesehead]

13. Dad got his while he worked for the state dept of education.

One of the schools he was supervising teachers in was closing, and he asked if the clock was for sale. They were gonna give it to him, but he insisted that it had to be a sales transaction. They "sold" it to him for exactly $1. :)

I love the sound of the pendulum, especially late at night. It's so comforting.

How cool that you have one, too!

[Robb]

10. Well, I *live* in a freakin' coo-coo-clock...

...does that count? :D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Of course it counts!

Must be *um* interesting, though!

:7

[Robb]

16. It's a rather obscure Homer Simpson reference, I'm afraid

...I believe he felt he was going mad. I've used it ever since. :hi:

[Mutley]

11. I've got this one in my kitchen.

It'll play the actual bird sounds on the hour, but I turned that part off. It got annoying after awhile.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. My dear mutley!

How pretty yours is!

I can bet the bird sounds would get to you, though!

Mine has a very cool chime, on the hour.....:hi:

[Major Hogwash]

34. Holy Moly! I've got that clock!

Oh my gawd, I can't believe someone else was as gullible as I was to buy that clock!

Hahahahahaha!

The bird sounds drove me nuts because I never could tell what time it was when they chirped!

[SeattleGirl]

12. That's a beautiful clock, Peggy

Really beautiful.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. My dear SeattleGirl!

Why, thank you, sweetie!

My parents gave it to me a looooong time ago.....

My husband has never liked it, so it's up here in my study.....

It helps me keep track of how much time I'm spending on DU!

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

Are you OK? You seem a little subdued tonight.....

[SeattleGirl]

24. Got a bit overheated today. It was 80+ degrees, and fool that

I am, I decided it was a good time to clean my office. Even with the fan on, I got overheated. Bit of a headache and queasy stomach, but it'll go away. I think I'll finish the work at o'dark thirty when it's cooler!

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. Aw, sweetie.....

I'm sorry you don't feel well.....

I'm sure that it will soon pass, and you'll be back to your own self!

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

28. I know I will be.

Seems the older I get, the more susceptible to heat I become. Guess I won't be looking to retire in Arizona!

Thanks for your concern, darlin'. :loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[Floogeldy]

17. Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?

Your wonderful clock, C-Peg, beats the hell out of a floor clock, or a ceiling clock, I'm pretty sure. ;)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. I am quite sure, my dear Floog......

That we really don't know what time it is!

But I at least enjoy the illusion of knowing!

Ceiling clock? LOL!!

I thank you for your compliments, sweetie! :hug:

[LSK]

20. I do, I dont know how to describe it thou

Its round, its silver and gray, its battery powered. My sister got it for me for xmas.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. My dear LSK!

It sounds very modern!

I have some battery operated ones too.....and they are very accurate...

Until the battery dies, of course!

:hi:

[liberaltrucker]

22. Not just yet, but I "will"

Grandma had a wind-up clock very similar to yours. When she passed, it went to Mom.
Recently, Mom and Stepdad were preparing their will, and she asked me which memento(sp)
of Grandma's I wanted. Well, duh, the clock. I pray I don't get it anytime soon, though.

BTW, I'm in Opelika, AL tonight-very close to southlandshari. Ain't DU wonderful?

:hug:

:loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. My dear liberaltrucker!

How lovely to see you tonight!

It's funny....earlier today, I was wondering just where you are......

Haven't seen much of you lately!

Yes, DU is the best!

We can always wait for our loved ones to pass....the memento will wait, won't it?

:loveya: :hug:

[DawgHouse]

25. I'm kind of a clock nut, I guess.

I have several "schoolhouse clocks" because I like the sound they make. I also have a bird clock. It drives some people crazy but I like the bird calls. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. My dear DawgHouse!

Well, you think you're a clock nut!

You should see my parent's house!

It is just full to the gills with all sorts of them! And they all chime!

I love having just my one....I love the tick-tock, and the chime is so cool!

Good for you! Enjoy yourself!

:woohoo:

[DawgHouse]

30. yes, it's the "tick tock" that I like.

I told DH several years ago that I needed a clock that went "tick tock". It took a while to find the right one. :) Now my home sounds like home because I have "tick tock" in the background.

[Nicole]

29. Your clock is beautiful

I have this hideous thing! :P



It was my grandmother's so I keep it but it's not on display. Maybe one day my grandkid may like that thing from the 50's.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

32. My dear Nicole!

I actually kind of like that retro look.....

Though I'm not sure I'd want to look at it all the time!

By all means keep it.....it might be valuable one fine day!

Glad you like mine, though! :hi:

[StellaBlue]

31. I've got a fake retro one

50s-style, silver, with balls on the ends of the spokes, you know the type. LOVE IT! It's hanging above my 1960 model Westinghouse TV set.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

33. My dear StellaBlue!

Oh yes.....that sounds way cool!

:hi:

[StellaBlue]

40. It looks just like this, only silver

[CaliforniaPeggy]

44. My dear StellaBlue!

Oooh, I LOVE it!

Very retro chic!

Thanks for sharing the pic!


:hi:

[Major Hogwash]

35. That's a great looking clock.

I've got a clock in every room of the house, except the bathrooms.

I wanted to get a wall clock similar to that, but I never found one that suited my taste or was within my budget.

But, I wound up inheriting my grandparents bell clock, the one they were given when they were married in 1925.

It didn't run right, though.
It lost a few minutes each day.

I complained once when I was visitng them about 25 years ago that their clock didn't keep time very well. It would always strike the hour about 5 minutes after whatever tv show we were watching at the time had started. It drove me nuts.

So, my grandfather told me that since the clock didn't work very well, he asked me if I could take a look at it. So, one day I took off the back panel to have a look at it, and I asked him about the inside workings because they certainly didn't look they had been ticking away for 55+ years. They were all nice and shiny, with very little grease or dirt of any kind on any of the gears.

That was when my grandfather told me that he had taken it to a clock shop to have it fixed a few years before, and he suspected that the guy had gutted the clock, took all of the original machine parts out, and rigged it up to where it kept time.

I was pretty bummed out about it.
I told my grandfather that taking out the original parts of the clock wasn't right.

But my grandfather said that he didn't feel too bad about it because the clock no longer ran when he took it to the clock shop anyway, and since it only lost 3 minutes a day, and it only had to be wound once a week, it wasn't so bad.

Then, 8 years later he died, and the family gave that clock to my mother to give to me because grandfather said none of the other grandchildren showed any interest in fixing that clock.

So, I took it a jeweler here that I have known for years and asked him if he could get it to run right, and he had it fixed in just 2 days. When I went to pick it up, he told me that he had to replace the metal strip that held the counterweight, and the counterweight itself because he didn't know why they had used that particular counterweight to cause it to swing to keep the gears running because it was so heavy. Which was what wore out the metal strip so fast to begin with, and also caused it lose 3 minutes a day.

But, after I told him the story about the clock shop my grandfather had taken it to, and that the guy there had probably gutted the clock, the jeweler assured me that all the machine parts were the original parts of that particular kind of clock, except for the counterweight; that the fellow in the clock shop had just taken the parts out of the clock and cleaned and buffed them, which is why they looked so new when I had looked at them years before.

I was stunned.

Then, he gave me the counterweight and it turned out to an old broach pin of some kind. I showed it to my mother and she thought she recognized it. So, a few days later she dug out some old photos of her parents and it turned out to be a broach pin her grandmother wore on her fancy dress whenever they posed for pictures. There's only 2 pictures of her grandmother in all of the family pictures because she was shy.

So, why my grandfather was using his mother-in-law's broach pin to run that clock, I just couldn't figure out.

Then I realized that it was my grandfather who had lost the original counterweight to that clock - he was the one that screwed that clock up from keeping the right time to begin with, but he couldn't let it get out to my grandmother that he was the one that had broken their wedding clock present!

That's why grandfather took it to get it fixed at a clock shop - so he could blame it on the clock shop owner!

Clever guy, my grandfather.

Their clock runs like a champ now too.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

45. My dear Major Hogwash!

This is one incredible story, and I thank you so much for sharing it with me, and with all of us!

Your grandfather sure was a clever man, and so are you!

You got to the bottom of the mystery, plus the brooch got to come out and be admired all over again!

I am so impressed!

Thank you......

:yourock:

[Call Me Wesley]

37. I used to have an antique clock going,

but now it's just a clock/weatherstation on the wall in the kitchen.

But since Switzerland's train station clocks are famous, you can buy them both as wall or ceiling mounted:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

46. My dear Call Me Wesley!

Now there's a bunch of impressive modern clocks!

The Swiss are justly famous for their time pieces......

Thanks for coming by today to share with me!

:loveya: :hug:

[miss_american_pie]

38. Mine's not nearly as old as yours

but it looks like this.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

47. My dear miss_american_pie!

Oh, I love your modern clock!

They don't have to be old to be cool!

Thanks for sharing!

:hug:

[Burma Jones]

39. Kit Kat Clock

We call it "El Gato Supremo"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

48. My dear new_beawr!

I've seen those, and they are sooo cute!

El Gato Supremo! That's great!

:thumbsup: :hi:

[seemunkee]

41. I have a banjo clock I inherited from my grandfather

Its not that old but reminds me of him whenever I wind it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

49. How terrific to have such a momento from your grandfather!

It is a precious thing to have, my dear seemunkee.....

That which is remembered, lives....

:hug:

[catmandu57]

42. I've got a 4.95 piece of chinese plastic

in the kitchen. I use it mostly for the second hand to time mixing, and for when the power goes out.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

50. My dear catmandu57!

Hey, even those have their uses, right?

I hope it serves you very well without problems!

:hi:

[havocmom]

43. I love my wall clock

We have 9 other clocks around the house. They all say something different and it drives me crazy!

Havocdad has all these formulas for how to figure the ACTUAL TIME depending on which clock one looks at. When I look at the clock in the middle of the night, I just wanna know how much sleep I can still get. I DO NOT WANNA DO MATH!

So I got me a decent wall clock... with Roman Numerals. He has trouble figuring that particular numbering system out at a glance.

Sauce for the goose, good for the gander. ;)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

51. My dear havocmom!

Oh, I hear ya!

Great story, BTW!

I love Roman numerals too.....that's what my clock has on it! ;-)

Thanks for sharing today!

:hug: