No. For some reason, clocks have never been my thing. We have two clocks in the house (other than appliances, computers, etc.). One in the guest room and a mantel style antique clock that is from my father's family. It doesn't work; for sentimental reasons only (and it is pretty).

Good luck on your quest!

Yes, we have two. One was a gift from our daughter-in-law which I have in our kitchen and the other my husband bought and it is in the library. Oh and one small hanging clock from a local French store that I bought on a whim because the face said Place des Vosges which is one of my favorite areas of Paris. It quit keeping time after a few months. Ha.

I adore both your clocks! I especially like the first one, but the second is wonderful, too-I just am not a "red person." I would have paid that for them, but then I tend to ignore price when I can if I love something. Enjoy the clocks!

Yes and I have two clocks hanging in our house and they keep me on time. I have one on the bulkhead in the kitchen eating area. That is the one that gets us out the door on time. We are too far away from the stove/microwave to see the time on them. I will say when my old one died I had a hard time finding one that looked decent to fit the area allowed. Even on line they all looked cheap and cheesy.

We have a larger , maybe 15 inches, one in our great room on a small section of wall. That one is good when watching tv to not miss shows and for telling me when it's time to go to bed.

I don't know how people live without clocks around.

You might check out these guys a little off the beaten path, but you probably pass by there all the time. This is where I got my new-to-me dining table. Tons of stuff.

http://www.theestatesaleco.com

Thanks for that reference to the consignment shop. We do pass by there frequently, but not all the time, as we usually take Ramon Road to get to downtown Palm Springs from our house. However, if we are at Revivals in Cathedral City (which is the best Revivals IMO) and then go to Palm Springs, we pass right by it.

Have you been to the Backstreet Art District behind the consignment shop? That looks like it would be worth visiting also, and we've not been there yet either, but both places are 12 minutes from our house.

We've found some shops that we like Uptown, but they're generally not cheap, but still reasonable. Most have just new stuff, but some have vintage.

We have a wall clock in the hall by the garage and service doors, it was to keep everyone out the door in time for the bus. But it doesn’t work anymore, just there from habit. There’s a cheap one on the wall of the garage, just so as we work outside we can keeo track of time hands-free.

The most used wall clock is in the kitchen, of course. It’s another cheapy, after the nicer clock died.

I love the turquoise clock you posted. The red one definitely says ”kitchen”. I’d go for that Dr Pepper clock for my kitchen! I love old advertising things, and I love Dr Pepper. When I worked in Dallas, my office overlooked their bulding on Mockingbird.

We’ll try Backstreet next summer when were out there. Revivals was on my list, bit we didnt get there either. We love staying at the Ritz Carlton, but can only afford it in the height of summer.

I don’t have one, but the one’s you’ve chosen are very cool. I’ve thought about getting one for a while now, I just haven’t seen one that has grabbed my attention yet. One reason I hesitate a little too though is that I worry about the ticking sound of an analog clock. I often work in quiet and that sound would be irritating to me. Do all wall clocks have that sound, are there some available that don’t? Is that where paying more for one would make a difference?

bpath, omg. I want to go to that shop in Chicago. Look at those wonderful clocks! I love your story of your cuckoo clock!

The battery powered clocks that we have do not make a ticking sound. That would irritate me as well. I think that clocks that have an electrical cord might make more of a sound than the battery clocks.

I love both of your clocks, Lars. They kinda have a 50's feel. We have no wall clocks, but plenty of other clocks. We have one in the bedroom that shines the time on the ceiling in red and a small battery one on my nightstand. We have one on the stove, but you have to be standing over it to read the time, a mid-size clock in the laundry that sits on a stand on the counter and two other very small battery clocks on chair side table and in kitchen. It sounds like a lot of clocks, but I think a stranger in our house would have trouble finding them. And it seems like we use our phone ones the most!

I love the red clock you have picked out for your kitchen. We do not have any time clocks, but we have a tide clock, so we can tell how long we can be kayaking. When the tide is too low we get grounded.

We have 2 wall clocks in our family room and breakfast room -- one made by a ceramic artist -- very funky and colorful. The other is a VIctoria Station double sided clock. The ceramic one stopped working and I found I could replace the movement and got it working again. One side of the Victoria STation one stopped, so I took it apart and found the replacement mechanisms for that also -- and discovered that we could get one that resets with the atomic clock. So far so good -- we'll get a test on the seasonal change soon.

If you want to try it with one of your clocks, Ronellclock dot com is the place I got my parts from and they were very helpful in making sure I got the right parts.

Those are both fabulous clocks. Such a nice relief from this:

Yes we have wall clocks, antiques. DH keeps them running. The one in the kitchen is used all the time, though it doesn't chime. I do find myself listening for the others that chime when I'm wondering what time it is.

We saw one just like this one in the Smithsonian...

This one my FIL rescued from the trash at NYU....was covered in coats of school green paint and someone had cut out the chiming mechanism. My FIL & DH reconstructed it, refinished the case and we had the face redone. It's in great shape now and chimes every 30 min.

We have quite a few wall clocks. As I said in a previous thread I used to have them in every room when I did not wear a watch. We also have one on our back fence and in the garage. When I moved away from having them in each room I placed 6 that I still like for their visual appeal in our butler's pantry / bar area and set them all to 5:00. We also have a cuckoo clock that my brother gave me for Christmas years ago...he lives in Bavaria. It was "abused" by a nephew who was visiting and needs repair. I should hang it in with the other non-working 5:00 clocks.

Lars, love the clocks you showed.

I don’t have any wall clocks, just my great-grandparents’ mantle clock (circa 1917) and a cute vintage-style shelf clock in the guest room.

We have an amazing big wooden wall clock that was in my DH’s late wife’s family … when we downsized, there wasn’t room to hang it. It’s wrapped up and hopefully we can use it again someday (we had it in our office at our former house).

LOVE both those retro clocks, Lars, especially the green and brass one.

We have a round, easily seen wall clock in our kitchen and a westminster chiming clock in the hall. i like having both a clear visual and an audible way of telling time. In our last house we had a wall clock in the bathroom and it was very helpful. Now that we are retired we don’t need it.

When my mother moves I will repace our chiming wall clock with the ”grandmother” clock my parents bought in Switzerland. (When they bought their forever house they did the grand tour and in each country selected something for the new home like people ised to do.) Their clock is more petite than a grandfather clock and has lovely chimes. It uses no batteries so i will have to remember to pull the weights every week.

I love your first clock. it is so cool.

@Lars I love your clocks - they are art as well as time pieces which to me is what makes having wall clocks (or tall case or mantel or whatever type) worth having. Clocks are not everyone's taste. I've shown them before - mine are antique and a large part of what makes my house *home* to me. These are my wall clocks but I also have 2 tall case and one mantel.

Annie - love your clocks and kudos to the timekeepers!

This is a marble face and requires blocking to hang safely so when we were building I had to know where it would go.

This simple Vienna regulator is probably my favorite clock.

This is a Brown & Sharpe banjo clock

And this one sadly is not running until I get parts from my brother - it's a 2 weight bim bam regulator - because that's the sound it makes when it strikes - two tone, bim bam.

I have a not-at-all-distinguished wall clock from Target. With a child who I needed to get out the door to school on time, it was a necessity. I have an equally undistinguished schoolhouse-style clock in my kitchen.

Lars, those clocks are fabulous. The price doesn't seem too much given that for a clock like that you are either looking at vintage or a niche seller. You aren't going to find something like them at target.

Kswl 2, that is teak on the first clock instead of brass! I am hoping that the oval part will be more of a teal, so that it will go with our teal sofa. The oval part is plastic laminate, listed as mint green, with a sort of boomerang pattern:

I think this will go with the teal sofa - it doesn't need to match exactly.

I do consider these to be wall art, but they are functional as well. I didn't realize how much I checked the clocks until one stopped working. It only has a dead battery, but still... It is an antique reproduction with a pendulum that does not work, and I think it was supposed to chime.

My sister has a clock in her living room that chimes on the hour and half hour, and once when I visited her, I had to sleep on the sofa in her living room (other bedrooms were occupied), and the chime really interfered with my sleep! I think I had to remove the battery overnight so that I could sleep, and then I put it back in in the morning.

I worked with my boss on the designs of some new alarm clocks that were fairly small but had Art Deco inspired designed and were to be made with exotic veneers, but we never put them into production.

Lars, I like it better as wood, especially in teak! That ”plastic” might be formica if you’re lucky—- they had a boomerang type pattern that to my eye looks very much like the pattern on that part of the clock. FUN!!

The seller did call it "Formica" which is a brand name, and so I don't know if I trust that. A lot of sellers in UK call acrylic "Lucite" but that is also a brand name, and if it is not made in Switzerland by the Lucite company, then it is not Lucite.

There is a better chance that I will be getting true Formica, however.

Lars, those are fabulous.

I did get my estate sale find clock fixed. He just changed out the battery mechanism and put on new hands since the second hand was bent. He said that was the original battery mechanism and he was not surprised it didn't work. They apparently rewound themselves even though they were battery. But I learned a lot about clock repair.

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Both are wonderful finds. I do not have a wall clock, but a grandfather clock and my maternal great grandparent's mantel clock. No mantel here, so it's now on a table downstairs. The grandfather is now in our living room and chimes on the hour and once on the half hour. When our youngest granddaughter is here, DD2 asks me to stop the pendulum. :-/ It doesn't bother us, even when watching TV, napping or during the night.

@DLM2000-GW Oh my gosh, that marble clock is fantastic! Now I want one!

@bpath my paternal grandmother was left a cuckoo clock from a dear friend. Not sure who ended up inheriting from her. Sadly, it was not me. I regret not buying one when visiting the Black Forest.

Love your clocks Lars! My family always had a thing for clocks, I have a lot of them. I don't have the heart to get rid of them, even though some of them are not my style. I still like clocks and usually have one in every room. I only have a few nice ones that I like though. Some others were gifts from my Dad, he's almost a collector.

Never got an MCM vibe from you Lars. Curious. We received a "mantle" clock from our best man and since replaced it with one we inherited from the in-laws when they died. DH's first wood working projects/gifts revolved around clocks so we have a few around. As I helped a student yesterday checking the time on her computer I wondered if she saw it was 8:40 did she KNOW there were 20 minutes left of class or does she just not 'it's half way" more or less. Pretty sure the idea of 60 minutes in an hour is not a concept teens grasp anymore.

Pretty sure the idea of 60 minutes in an hour is not a concept teens grasp anymore.

@arcy_gw that's an unpleasant thought. I would hope that student is just an exception.

Arcy, I have posted quite a few photos from Modernism Week in Palm Springs, and I have also posted photos of cabana jackets I have made, based on late 1950s designs.

Here's a photo of the room where the first clock will go

The clock will be on a wall opposite this sofa. The floor lamp is not MCM, but it came with the house, as did the coffee table. We got rid of the sofa and lounge chairs that came with house, however. I do have a sort of mixture of styles going on here. We have the recliners because they are very comfortable and decided to sacrifice style for comfort.

Love that black chair with the black and white print upholstery. Did it come like that or did you refinish or recover it?

I'm one who does not like the chiming of a clock. Well, only when I'm sleeping. My grandparents used to stop theirs if I was spending the night. I'm not sure if their clock qualified as an antique, but it was very old. We had it stored until recently when my brother decided he would take it. Although i have precious memories, I've never wanted a grandfather clock.

Great room @Lars!

These are chairs that I got from our warehouse at work, and they were designed by my boss. The fabric is Italian cut velvet that was $144 a yard when these were new, and so it is not a print! The chair frame is Macassar Ebony veneer. These chairs were returned by the client, and so she provided the fabric - I could not afford the fabric or the chairs when they were new, but I got them after they were put in our "sale" room for employees to buy.

I was able to look up the client order to identify the fabric, but I no longer have the exact information on it - just the wholesale price for the fabric when it was new. This is one of the few furniture items that I have from work, and I do not have any of the chairs that I designed myself, as I could not afford them.

None of the pillows are prints either, and I got the zebra tapestry fabric and orange brocade at work also - they were remnants from upholstery jobs. The giraffe fabric I bought at a Sunbrella clearance sale.