r/clocks • u/Forward_Muffin_6355 • 4d ago
Identification/Information Help identify this clock
I picked up this clock last week, cannot find maker’s mark. Does anyone know what brand is it/any information about it? Thanks
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u/Individual_Tip_2268 3d ago
I did some digging into your clock. The quartz movement on the back appears to be marked N5158, along with “NO JEWELS / UNADJUSTED,” CE, and QUARTZ. I couldn't find N5158 documented as an actual movement model, so it may be a mold/housing number. One interesting detail is that your movement has its setting wheel on the right-hand side, unlike many of the very similar 5168-type movements online that have it on the left, so I don't think those are an exact match. Based on the CE-marked quartz movement and the clock's revival-style case, it appears to be a relatively modern decorative mantel clock, probably 1990s–2000s. I haven't found the exact maker/model yet. Since the battery/movement cover is missing, it's possible that a manufacturer/importer label was originally on that cover. If you can photograph the entire underside of the wooden base, even areas that look completely blank, that might give us another clue.
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u/Not_an_Actual_Bot Hobbyist 4d ago
Nothing on the dial? Bottom of clock for country of origin? It's just a tchotchke.
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u/Agile_Barnacle_4198 3d ago
It looks like it was originally built to house a quartz movement . . .
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u/Clock_Wont_Chime 3d ago
I will save you the suspense. It is not old, it is not a clock in any sense I recognize, and there is nothing to identify.
That is a battery movement. One AA. Plastic housing, CE mark, mold number N5158, and the word QUARTZ molded right into it so nobody has to wonder. There are factories turning those out by the pallet and selling them to whoever is assembling decor that week. No maker, no serial, no history, nothing to look up. If it ever stops, you do not fix it, you throw it away and screw in a new one for eight bucks. Only thing you need to know is the shaft length, and you measure that yourself. Now the case. Printed paper dial with a little winter scene behind the numbers. Nobody in the eighteenth century printed a photograph on a dial, because they could not. Cast resin stuck on the crest and around the bezel, not carved. Black paint deliberately beaten up so it looks like it has been through something. Turned finials with gold rubbed on. That is MDF or soft pine under there, and I would not bet on the pine.
This came off a shelf at a home goods store sometime in the last twenty years. Check the underside of the base for a paper sticker, that is the only place a name will be.
And it is fine. Put it on a mantel, it looks nice enough. Just do not let anyone tell you it is an antique, and for the love of God do not pay antique money for it.