Clocks

This Ingraham wall clock is the exact same model that hung in my childhood kitchen. When I moved out of the house, I took it with me. It followed me around every place I lived in after for about 10 years. I don’t remember what happened to it exactly but it did not come with us when we moved into this place. Probably something to do with it being electric and the cord not being able to reach and outlets.

When we moved in, my sister gave us this made-by-Verichron, signed George Nelson Pill Clock (Verichron licenced Nelson’s designs before Vitra). It’s a little different than the original but still has the atomic charm of the Ingraham. Plus it’s battery-powered so you can hang it anywhere. There’s no wall space in our kitchen so I put it in our bathroom .

A couple of years later I found another Verichron George Nelson — this time a version of the classic Ball Clock. It wasn’t working so I just hung it up over my desk as decoration.

(Please note, I took it to the local jewelry repair place and they told me it couldn’t be fixed).

Fast forward a couple of years and the pull clock got blocked—when cleaning the bathroom it got pushed against a shadow box and the hands got stuck, stripping the thingy that made the hands turn. While neither clock could tell time, time still passed. Until last winter when I visited Ikea with my niece. We went to the scratched section (where they sell things that have been bruised for cheap) and there were two deeply discounted wall clocks. I had a thought that maybe I could switch out their motors with the broken ones in my Nelsons.

And it totally worked. Even my biggest fear, switching out the hands, was easy. I don’t know why the jewelry place up the street told me it couldn’t be done.

Anyway, I have a while bunch of repair success stories to share. I meant to do it earlier, but I’ll try to catch you up throughout the week.