Urgos UW7/ series clock movement is no longer made and not available by. The two weight Hermle units are so close and there is not much to do with the conversion aspect on these. This is only if it makes sense to do so and with this particular series it does. Even when the movement is not made it is best to use a conversion to a different maker instead of having the repair work done. The choice is obvious to get the new one for cost savings and life expectancy if possible and easy. If the movement is giving issues on top of this fact it is definitely time to either overhaul the old or get a new one if possible. That alone puts it over the life expectancy of being a 25 year movement by far and needs a new replacement. These units were very popular in the 1960s and 1970's.

GIROTTI SCULPTURED ART (ST.Urgos UW7/ series clock movement is a two weight small floor clock movement. PREMIER: THE RAREST CATALOGUED PEQUEGNAT CLOCK THE PEQUEGNAT CLOCK COMPANY OF CANADA (Manotick, Ontario)īULOVA Caravelle Plate Clocks (Blue Mountain Pottery connection)ġ820s QUEBEC WOOD MOVEMENT TALL CASE CLOCK THE HAMMOND COMPANY OF CANADA LTD (Toronto) THE MUSEUM S CANADA CLOCK COMPANY (HAMILTON) CLOCKS WESTCLOX BRAILLE and MOONBEAM ALARM CLOCKSĬANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC (Toronto) Kitchen Clocks OUR COLLECTION OF WALTER CLOCKS AT MAY 2018įUN and TIME TEACHING CLOCKS for CHILDREN Included in the set of pictures are the typical prewar/postwar company label always found inside the back door, Walter's postwar round back door, the typical postwar pendulum bob, and some of the spring-driven pendulum movements.

The exception is the Style 300 clock that a private owner enquired about - we thank him for the pictures. That business continued up to the mid 1960s.īelow are pictures of the mantel clocks currently in the museum's Walter Clocks collection. cuckoo, 400 day, alarm) for sale in Canada. The pendulum movements were imported from West Germany (URGOS).īy the late 1950s, when the North American market for mantel clocks started to decline, the company was also importing various types of German clocks (e.g. And Walter had designed the unique removable round back door characteristic of his postwar clocks. Most of the cases were now constructed with stained birch wood rather than the more expensive walnut. After the war, Walter's son Bill joined the company and Walter Clocks was again making their own mantel clocks from the late 1940s into the late 1950s. There were no clocks produced during WWII because overseas movements were not available. The cases had a walnut veneer finish and a hinged back door. Before WWII, Walter made all of the wood cases for his mantel clocks and put in spring-driven pendulum movements imported from England and Germany.

See the Canadian Makers section for details about this company set up in Toronto in the early 1930s by Walter Stonkus from Lithuania (arrived 1927).

Urgos clock company history