Antique Clock Collecting: Reproductions

Video Transcript

"If you only care about the look of the clock, you're decorating and you want a clock, perhaps an antique clock look alike and you particularly don't want to fuss with an antique machine or with winding it or setting it or adjusting it there are many reproductions out there still. Some of them are wind up. Particularly school clocks and other wall clocks may still be wind up ones that you need to wind up and adjust and set the same that you would with an antique clock. But others are battery powered. Here's a nice example of a desk clock. This certainly is a nice reproduction. Heavy, solid wood. Looks old. But you'll notice of course there's no winding hole so that's a way at a quick glance you'd realize that you're dealing with a reproduction clock. Again well made but of course in the back, too, you just peek in and there's our battery movement inside. So working away for a couple of years without any attention required. But just keep in mind that no matter what anyone tells you about them being of heirloom quality and collector quality and will be passed down to the future generations that they're not going to have any residual value most likely. If it's not an antique clock which historically have at least maintained their value if not appreciated, any reproduction clock you're buying it only for the look and for the timekeeping but not for any collector or investment value."