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Wall clock by 2ГЧЗ /Toinen valtion kellotehdas, Russia, 1930 - 1965 after 1930, before 1965 — view 1 of 2
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Wall clock by 2ГЧЗ /Toinen valtion kellotehdas, Russia, 1930 - 1965 after 1930, before 1965

DocumentedDocumented from the holding institution's catalogue record.
Maker / attribution
2ГЧЗ /Toinen valtion kellotehdas (maker)
Date
1930 - 1965 after 1930, before 1965
Historical period
Modern Mechanical Horology (1945 – 1969)
Country of origin
Russia
Place
Moscow, Soviet Union
Object type
Wall clock
Dimensions
width, max. 16.5 cm; height, max. 30.0 cm
Holding institution
Naantalin museo
Accession / object no.
NAA2202:
Credit line
Naantalin museo (via Finna)
Catalogue title (original)
kello; seinäkello (Finnish)

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Record summary

Held and catalogued by Naantalin museo (object number NAA2202:), this is a wall clock by 2ГЧЗ /Toinen valtion kellotehdas, made in Moscow, Soviet Union, Russia, dated 1930 - 1965 after 1930, before 1965. The Atlas places it in the Modern Mechanical Horology period (1945 – 1969) of its Clocks collection. Recorded dimensions: width, max. 16.5 cm; height, max. 30.0 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 — Naantalin museo

fyysinen kuvaus: Kellotaulu on peltiä ja siinä on vihreällä pohjalla maalattuna köynnösaiheinen kuviointi. Taulun reunaa kiertää helmijanakoristelu, samoin numerotaulun reuna. Harmaa numerotaulu, jossa arabialaiset numerot. Viisarit ovat rautaa. Kellotaulun takana on puukotelo lasiseinillä. Kotelon sisällä on viisareiden koneisto.

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 An editor-reviewed English translation has not yet been published; we do not publish machine translations as authoritative text.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

2 й Гос. часовой зд MOCKBA venäjä Toinen valtion kellotehdas Moskova valmistusmerkintä maalaus

Historical context

Modern Mechanical Horology (1945 – 1969)

Tool watches for divers, pilots and astronauts; electric watches anticipate the electronic age.

Post-war clocks combined new materials and industrial design: plastic and metal cases, battery-powered transistor movements from the late 1950s, and design classics by George Nelson, Max Bill and others. The first caesium atomic clock (1955) moved the definition of time from astronomy to physics.

Read the period in the timelineMore clocks from this periodEarlier: Golden Age of Mechanical Watchmaking

Atlas type guide

Regulators, wall and Vienna clocks

A regulator is a precision pendulum clock used as a time standard in observatories, workshops and railway offices. Typical features are a deadbeat or Graham escapement, a temperature-compensated pendulum (mercury jar, gridiron or later invar), maintaining power and a regulator dial that separates hours, minutes and seconds. George Graham's deadbeat escapement (c. 1715) and his mercury pendulum, together with Harrison's gridiron, set the pattern for two centuries.

Wall clocks span a much wider range: the elegant Viennese Laterndluhr and Dachluhr of the Biedermeier period, the Dutch stoelklok and staartklok, English 'dial' clocks used in schools, offices and railway stations, and mass-produced spring and weight wall clocks from Germany (Gustav Becker, Junghans, Kienzle) and America.

What to look for

  • Deadbeat escapement and compensated pendulum (gridiron rods, mercury jar or wood rod).
  • A regulator dial with a large central minute hand and separate hour and seconds dials.
  • Vienna regulators: glazed cases, slender pendulum, small weights, enamel two-piece dials.
  • German factory trademarks stamped on the backplate (e.g. Gustav Becker anchor and crown, Junghans star).

Dating clues

  • Graham-type deadbeat regulators: from c. 1720.
  • Viennese Laterndluhr: c. 1800–1850.
  • German factory 'Vienna-style' regulators: c. 1870–1930; Gustav Becker serial numbers allow close dating.

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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