Anyone ever heard of this clock maker?

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  1. jakes vintage

    jakes vintage Well-Known Member

    so I'm looking for some info on this wall clock I'm having trouble hanging the pendulum and have never seen this way of mounting it so I figured I would ask here for a possible name of the maker so I can continue my research. Any help would be appreciated!
     

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  2. blooey

    blooey Well-Known Member

    Seems to be a German clock with a retailer's name on the dial?
     
  3. Matt Johnson

    Matt Johnson Well-Known Member

    No German is called Pierre.

    However, the box ist typicalto the end of the 19th century.
    If you could take off the clock mechanism you would probably find a serial number and the producer stamped on the back. Once you know that you can date it to the year it was made
     
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  4. Matt Johnson

    Matt Johnson Well-Known Member

    It would be helpful if you could post more pictures, perhaps so that we can see the whole clock and not just parts of it
     
  5. jakes vintage

    jakes vintage Well-Known Member

    Not many marks short of just these numbers pictured but I was able to figure out how to hang the pendulum in the process of looking for marks
     

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  6. blooey

    blooey Well-Known Member

    A German clock retailed in France ...DUH!
    They were sold in the UK too BTW.
     
  7. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    Pierre is NOT the first name, but Eugène - shortened to Eug., probably the watchdealer.
    Dinant is in the francophone part of Belgium, therefore Retard and Avance marked on the pendulum to slow it or "fast" it with the round nut.
    PS: Pierre is rather often used in Germany, especially along the Rhine; nobody wants to be called Peter or Fritz or Johannes or even Torben, Detlev or Horst - it simply sounds so "yokel".
     
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  8. Adrian Lewis

    Adrian Lewis Journeyman

    These are commonly termed Vienna Wall Clocks mostly 19thC whether weight or spring-pendulum driven originating in Vienna and copied in several countries across central northern Europe. Weight drive correctly called a Regulator.
     
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  9. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    in wot neck of ze woods ? Amerika ?
    it was rather a Vienna fashion than a Vienna invention ?
     
  10. Old Poet Girl

    Old Poet Girl Member

    It is a French clockmaker, Eugene Pierre from the Town of Dinant. Apparently, in the Ardennes, near Belgium.
     
  11. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    and the earth is a frisbee.
     
  12. Adrian Lewis

    Adrian Lewis Journeyman

    "Vienna wall clock". Terminology of the English/British professional antiques trade.
     
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