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Nickthedentist · 16th Jun 2021, 1:58 pm

To me, this looks like an original clock which has been repaired at some distant point in its service life, by replacing the entire movement with the nearest equivalent available at the time.

This has been standard practice with this class of mass-produced clock for about 50 years.

So to me, it's not a fake, just a clock that's seen a few decades of use and which has been repaired in a pragmatic fashion.

As an aside, my dad worked in a 1930s governmemt-owned building which boasted a hundred or so Sectronic clocks installed in the early 1970s. By the early 1990s, most had failed and I certainly couldn't repair the one that was presented to me as a challenge. So you're not missing much IMHO.

16th Jun 2021, 1:58 pm	#13
Nickthedentist Dekatron Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Oxford, UK. Posts: 17,844	Re: Smiths Sectronic wall clock To me, this looks like an original clock which has been repaired at some distant point in its service life, by replacing the entire movement with the nearest equivalent available at the time. This has been standard practice with this class of mass-produced clock for about 50 years. So to me, it's not a fake, just a clock that's seen a few decades of use and which has been repaired in a pragmatic fashion. As an aside, my dad worked in a 1930s governmemt-owned building which boasted a hundred or so Sectronic clocks installed in the early 1970s. By the early 1990s, most had failed and I certainly couldn't repair the one that was presented to me as a challenge. So you're not missing much IMHO.