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Contemporary OAK, Calif. — It’s time to talk about the love of clocks.

A gather of people enthralled with timepieces gathered Sunday at Live Oak (Calif.) Grange for a bi-monthly convention of the local chapter of the National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors.

The conference drew about 50 people to the 17th Avenue grange, where members displayed their significant clocks, milled around talking about clocks, sold and bought books about clocks, and shared their insight and love of the clock.

Several people came to the meeting to get information about watches and clocks sinistral to them by relatives.

At one point, club president Randy Chapin put an eye rap over atop his nose to view one woman’s proffered watch, telling her make up for away it was Swiss before looking up some specifics in a guide book.

He then showed a collection a gold-filled railroad pocket watch made in 1902 that contained 21 jewels, explaining that the sham sapphires created a hard surface for the wheels to run against, increasing correctness, and that railroad-certified clocks had to have a minimum of 19 jewels.

Source: The Republic

by Max

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Dial – The dial is a gold locomotive turned dial with gloomy Roman numeral hour markers with two secs markers around the surface with downhearted steeled hands, to the nucleus of the dial is a fabulous engraved floral scroll prototype and the dial is unmarked. The ten oclock glowering hour marker has shabby away and a prior to possessor has tried to extempore it on also part of the 9 oclock marker has dead on one's feet and there is a abrade yardstick on the 4 oclock marker.

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