Antique Monitor Clock Works Oak Arts & Crafts Desk Alarm Clock - AS IS. The simple truncated A-frame design with a thin body makes this perfect for short mantels or small spaces. A gold leaf circle pattern in the center of the face accompanied by hour and minute hands with twelve numbers. Exposed back shows two winding mechanisms, the ringing bell, and multiple patent dates from the 1890s into the early 1900s. 

Condition: We cannot guarantee the working condition of any timepiece. 

Size: 9 x 3 x 7 in. 

In 1878 a watchmaker, jeweler, and inventor named Daniel Azro Ashley Buck helped found the Waterbury Watch Company in Connecticut. His remarkable advancements in both watch construction and miniaturization put his company on the map and led to numerous patents for everything from kaleidoscopes to cameras to steam-powered engines, but after disagreements with his partners he left in 1885 to run the Cheshire Watch Company and started his own toymaking company called D.A.A. Buck, which he merged with the Medina Manufacturing Company in New York in 1898 when he became their president. He set plans in motion to create a massive clock factory to boost the local economy, but died in 1904 before it could come to fruition, with his manager and several other employees using his plans to develop the Monitor Clock Works in 1907. Their use of his patented designs in Arts & Crafts styles were highly sought throughout New England, but due to economic collapse in the region the company closed in 1913, only a year after the factory was finally finished, and their materials were absorbed into the Brockport Clock Works in Syracuse before that, too, fell into bankruptcy in 1918. Today many of their mantel, grandfather, desk, and table clocks are highly sought by collectors for their short-lived contribution to the American clockmaking industry, and for their unique styles and durability due to Buck’s influence.

We cannot guarantee the working condition of any timepiece. 

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