Clocks · Alarm clock
Alarm clock, 1980s–1990s
- Maker / attribution
- Unrecorded in source
- Date
- 1980s–1990s
- Historical period
- Mechanical Renaissance (1990 – 2010)
- Country of origin
- Unrecorded in source
- Object type
- Alarm clock
- Materials / technique
- plastic, metal, paper, cardboard
- Dimensions
- matkaherätyskello kiinni taitettuna: length 7,8 cm, height 5 cm, thickness 1,5 cm, avattuna: 13,7 cm, height 5 cm, thickness 1,5 cm, levein width 5 cm, pahvipakkauksen koko 8,5 cm x 5,5 cm x 2 cm, tekonahkaisen taskun koko 9 cm x 6,8 cm
- Holding institution
- Lusto – Suomen Metsämuseo
- Accession / object no.
- E08013:8
- Credit line
- Lusto – Suomen Metsämuseo (via Finna)
- Catalogue title (original)
- Herätyskello pakkauksessa; Liikelahja, matkaherätyskello (Finnish)
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Record summary
Held and catalogued by Lusto – Suomen Metsämuseo (object number E08013:8), this is an alarm clock, dated 1980s–1990s. The Atlas places it in the Mechanical Renaissance period (1990 – 2010) of its Clocks collection. Materials and techniques recorded by the source: plastic, metal, paper, cardboard. Recorded dimensions: matkaherätyskello kiinni taitettuna: length 7,8 cm, height 5 cm, thickness 1,5 cm, avattuna: 13,7 cm, height 5 cm, thickness 1,5 cm, levein width 5 cm, pahvipakkauksen koko 8,5 cm x 5,5 cm x 2 cm, tekonahkaisen taskun koko 9 cm x 6,8 cm. The record is illustrated with 2 photographs.
Assembled from the source record's structured fields. Dates and attributions are given as the source states them; where a field is missing the Atlas leaves it blank rather than estimating.
Catalogue description
Description — Lusto – Suomen Metsämuseo
Deluxe-matkaherätyskello. Musta kotelo, jonka reunat on käsitelty kullanväriseksi. Kullan värinen Enso-Gutzeitin EG logo on kotelon alareunassa. Kokoontaitettava malli. Kokoontaitettuna matkaherätyskello on suorakulmaisen särmiön muotoinen. Kaksi pitkää sivua on pyöristetty. Neljäosainen herätyskello: kaksi kotelon puolikasta, herätyskellon koneisto ja digitaalinen näyttö. Koneiston ja näytön voi avata esiin vetämällä kahdesta kotelon puolikkaasta eri suuntiin. Herätyskello on harmaa-valkoinen vinoraitakuvioidussa pahvipakkauksessa. Pahvipakkauksessa on myös käyttöohje ja musta tekonahkainen pieni tasku.
Shown in the original language of the source catalogue. An editor-reviewed English translation has not yet been published; we do not publish machine translations as authoritative text.
Inscriptions & marks
Herätyskellon käyttöohje: englanniksi, italiaksi, saksaksi ja ranskaksi. Lyhyt kuvin havainnollistettu esitys herätyskellon toiminnasta. Pahvipakkauksessa on harmaa painoteksti: Deluxe, TRAVEL ALARM CLOCK
Historical context
Mechanical Renaissance (1990 – 2010)
Mechanical watches return as cultural objects; independent watchmaking flourishes.
Mechanical clocks returned as luxury and craft objects, alongside radio-controlled and designer quartz clocks. Independent makers and restorers revived traditional techniques, and museums increasingly documented industrial and electric clocks as heritage.
Read the period in the timelineMore clocks from this periodEarlier: Quartz Revolution
Atlas type guide
Alarm clocks
Alarm work is among the oldest clock functions: monastic clocks woke monks for night prayers, and Renaissance table clocks often carried an alarm disc set by a pin. A separate spring or weight is released at the set time and drives a hammer against a bell. Some early alarms also lit a candle by striking a flint — the 'tinder pistol' alarm.
The cheap, mass-produced alarm clock arrived in the second half of the nineteenth century. American firms such as Seth Thomas and Westclox (the 'Big Ben' of 1910) and German makers such as Junghans and Kienzle made millions of drum-shaped alarms with pin-pallet escapements. Electric, quartz and digital alarm clocks followed in the twentieth century.
What to look for
- A separate alarm-setting dial or disc and an extra winding key.
- Twin bells on top (common after c. 1920) or a bell enclosed in the base.
- Pin-pallet escapements in inexpensive factory alarms.
- Trademarks and patent dates on dial or back.
Dating clues
- Renaissance alarm table clocks: sixteenth to seventeenth centuries.
- Drum alarm clocks: from the 1870s.
- Luminous dials with radium paint: c. 1910–1960.
General guidance written by the Atlas editors about this kind of object. It is not a statement about this particular piece; for that, rely on the source record above and on physical examination.
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