Haha $80! Suckers! I paid $10 for this about 5 years ago.
It's a damn fine clock, though you have to carefully clean it a lot otherwise dust will get in there and it will stop working. This flip mechanism, common is tons of older clocks really wasn't meant for the open air.
My friend just picked up a neat little $5 from ebay that cleverly uses a standard quartz wall-clock mechanism to turn a gear on the minute hand. You hang a square (or maybe they come in many other shapes) gear on this and it goes around throughout the day. Pretty spiffy little clock for the price. The auction was here:
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Haha $80! Suckers! I paid $10 for this about 5 years ago.
It's a damn fine clock, though you have to carefully clean it a lot otherwise dust will get in there and it will stop working. This flip mechanism, common is tons of older clocks really wasn't meant for the open air.
My friend just picked up a neat little $5 from ebay that cleverly uses a standard quartz wall-clock mechanism to turn a gear on the minute hand. You hang a square (or maybe they come in many other shapes) gear on this and it goes around throughout the day. Pretty spiffy little clock for the price. The auction was here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6161498412