Hi Welcome to the new Synchronome Electric Clock group platform, within the photos section you will find albums specifically for most types of Synchronome clocks, please feel free to upload images or

Oh yes, whilst others were unwrapping the usual socks, I was taking delivery of a very nice double dial GPO clock 50A complete with bracket! These were usually seen in Post offices during the 1950's-6

Yes, all pics received fine here. Michael

Test - paste text complete with photos in one go from Electriclockcollecting forum. Poor clock! It was almost heartbreaking to see it. A lovely E.C.S. (English Clock Systems) GPO type 50A 12" double d

Here is a Gents cased fusee clock which is in a mahogany case of a shape and style I've not seen before, question is whats missing, it doesn't look like a nightwatchmans clock especially with it havin

Jim, Very nice! Does the label J.T. Gent and Co give a clue to date? It could have been an early watchman’s clock, with all electrical bits stripped out. Andy

Looks like a very early gents tel-tale nightwatchman clock, holes in base would be where the electromagnetic hole punching devices were fitted. These clocks had a horizontal paper disc just above the

Jim et al, According to one of Colin Renold's books, "J T Gent & Co" traded from 1872 to 1892 (or thereabouts) when the name changed to "Gent & Company". I bought my clock in the same condition as you

A Happy New Year to you all. Well, a belated one, as delivered by BBC TV. Did anyone else notice that the stroke of midnight landed on the screen about 9 seconds into 2019? That's happened before but

This mostly seems to be getting to members, so here is part 2! The wood glue took ok and next was some filling with one of those fibre plastic wood type products. This sort of went well, but I am not

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Hi We now reached 100 members on this forum, Happy New year to all regards Jim

I have a synchronome clock in the shop for repair and someone has replaced the jewel in the gathering arm with a piece of brass. Can anyone advise me where I can locate a jewel of the correct size and

Jim et al, According to one of Colin Renold's books, "J T Gent & Co" traded from 1872 to 1892 (or thereabouts) when the name changed to "Gent & Company". I bought my clock in the same condition as you

Dear All, I’m conscious that we have wandered away from Synchronome but I feel we are all happy playing in the same broad sandpit. I hope so. Simon has some great material on Magneta you can find thro

Dear All, After quiet some silence in the past years I'm really surprised of the echo the name Magneta created in the new group. As some of the group members know I have been researching the Swiss sid

While folk are delving among drawings, I have seen somewhere a regulator style slave somewhere, not sure if an amateur adapted a conventional movement or a manufacturers special but essentially a bar

I used to have to visit master and slave clock sites and step on or stop for an hour, clock systems. Putting back was easy, just stop them for an hour. However, stepping on an hour was not so easy. Wi

And so to the final part. the battery movements were replaced with a pair of Synchronome types, mainly as I didn't have any E.C.S. ones. The GPO factory at Holloway frequently refurbished clocks and i

Hello everyone, recently transferred here from the old group, where I'd lurked for some time. I've done a bit of theoretical work on Synchronomes that I published in Horological Science News, happy to