Welcome from me too.
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Originally Posted by Rhgbristol
Many are converted to the cheap battery Quartz movements but if it were mine I would leave the synchronous mains movement in it.
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That's such a good point. The original movement will no doubt work with nothing more than a quick service, and will last longer and be more accurate than any quartz replacement could hope for.
I'm in the middle of restoring a 1935 Ferranti clock which somebody had fitted a quartz movement to about 20 years ago. This is now unreliable and even when it works, makes an annoying click every second. The solution was to buy a tatty clock with the correct, mains electric movement from eBay and fit that instead. The end result should leave the clock as it was before it was hacked about.
Have a look here to make a guess about how old your clock might be. I suspect it's not as old as it might at first appear. The typeface used on the dial suggests 1960s to me, though I realise that this design of clock dates from the 1930s.
http://www.electric-clocks.co.uk/SMI...ck%20guide.htm
Have fun,
Nick.