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Ca. 1959 Junghans/HAC Westminster & Whittington Chimes "Loudspeaker" Mantel Clock

Welcome to the Singing Clockery, a channel dedicated to antique and vintage mechanical chiming clocks. If you like my videos, consider subscribing to my channel. Don't forget to tap the bell to be notified of future posts. Thanks for watching! Presented today is this rather small chiming mantel or shelf clock, made by the Junghans clock company of Germany or around 1959. Although the clock carries the logo of the Hamburg American Clock company (HAC), it is definitely a Junghans clock, as Junghans bought out HAC in the late 1920s, along with some other makers like Gustav Becker. However, Junghans continued to stamp many of their clocks with the brandnames of those defunct companies for many years afterward, possibly in an attempt to similarly absorb customers loyal to those makers. This particular model of clock is one of the better examples offered by Junghans in the 1950s, and is one I've been wanting to find for the last two years or so. Although diminutive in size, it comes packed with some very neat features. At its heart beats a three-train, spring-powered movement, which runs for about eight days on a winding. Earlier versions of this clock used a lever escapement, but this particular example utilizes the Exacta floating balance escapement, invented by Junghans in the late 1950s. This is instrumental in helping to date the clock. Unlike a pendulum clock, this one does not need to be balance to run, and can even be moved about. Possibly the most unique aspect of this clock is the chiming mechanism. The movement chimes progressively longer segments of either Westminster or Whittington melodies every fifteen minutes, on four or eight small chime rods. At the top of the hour it plays the full tune, then strikes the number of hours on a three-note chord. The chime assembly includes what can best be described as a loudspeaker at the bottom of the case... A thin membrane picks up the vibrations from the chimes, and transmits the sound through a grill beneath it. This results in the clock sounding much bigger and louder than it would have done otherwise.