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Antique Waltham 8 Day Car Clock Hudson Super Six with Bronze Mounting Bracket
Antique Waltham 8 Day Car Clock Hudson Super Six with the Original Bronze Brass Mounting Bracket. It measures about 2 3/4" wide; the dial is 2 3/8" wide. It retains the original thick beveled glass in the bezel. The clock is in very clean complete condition, it is not currently working and feels like it needs some spring adjustment as the winding stem just turns.
History of Waltham Car ClocksThe Waltham Watch Company, based it Waltham Massachusetts in the USA, produced high quality watches, clocks, speedometers and other precision instruments between 1850 and 1957. In 1850 David Davis, Edward Howard and Aaron Lufkin Dennison formed the company that would later become the Waltham Watch Company.
The company initially produced watches and then railroad chronometers. In 1911 the Waltham Watch Company began to manufacture car clocks or "automobile timepieces," as they were described by the company. All of the early automobile clock manufacturers faced the challenge of producing clocks that could withstand the subtantial vibration transmitted to clocks fitted to the early automobiles. The solution developed by Waltham was a rugged clock based on the "37 size watch" movement. These were 8 day movements powered by 2 mainsprings. They are most commonly 7 jewel but some 15 jewel car clocks were also produced. There were two basic models produced – the model 1910 (named for the year it was designed) and the later version known as the model 1926 which was the year of the major redesign of the movement. The production of these clocks continued wth different variations of cases and styling well into the 1930s. Some variants have an indicator on the dial (a red dot) that provides an indication that the clock needs to be wound. The 37 size watch movements were used in a wide variety of other Waltham clocks produced in the 1920s and 1930s including travel clocks, desk clocks, ships clocks and chronometers, display clocks and wall clocks.The early Waltham car clocks were quite expensive at the time and only a limited number of premium makes such as Packard and Pierce Arrow fitted the Waltham car clocks as standard equipment. They were successfully marketed as aftermarket accessories and were popular among the owners of the more common makes and are often found onto the Fords, Buicks and Dodge cars of the period. They were later fitted as standard equipment on a wider range of car makes.
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