Ask about your clock
Not sure who made your clock, how old it is, or what kind it is? Tell us what you can see and we will try to help, free.
Before you write, try our step-by-step guide to identifying and dating your clock. It covers labels, movement stamps, trademarks and patent dates, and often answers the question on its own.
Photos help a lot. After you send this, reply to our email with photos of the front, the dial, the back of the movement and any label. We can't take photo uploads on this form yet.
Other places to ask
These busy online forums are full of collectors and repairers who help identify clocks. You can read them all as a guest; you register to post.
- The NAWCC Message Board, run by the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors.
- Watch Repair Talk: All Things Clocks, a repair forum with a section just for clocks, including identification questions.
- WatchUSeek: Clock world, a section of a large watch forum for mechanical, electric, quartz and radio-controlled clocks.
- Flip Clock Fans, a forum just for flip clocks and their restoration, for makers like Copal, Caslon and Solari.
For electric clocks, ClockDoc, run by collectors, has a large photo archive of electric clocks from about 1840 to 2000, sorted by maker.
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