Horological News Feed
Our distributor provides excellent resources for collectors and connoisseurs of fine clocks and clockwork gadgets. Their blog can be reached through the links below, or directly at www.germanclocks.org. There is also an index of instructions and articles concerning the care and upkeep of our fine clocks available at the www.northcoastimports.com website, or directly at: www.northcoastimports.com/instructions.htm.
April 6th, 2010
If your cuckoo clock doesn't sound quite the same as those heard on our YouTube movies, the first thing you'll want to do is to check the position of your gong.Before every cuckoo call, there is traditionally a gong that is struck by a mechanical hammer. This adds depth of sound to the cuckoo clock call. If your hammer is missing the gong, or if the hammer is too close to the gong, you might
Tags: Black Forest, clock, clock care, cuckoo
January 25th, 2010
Thanks to the creative people at ReadyMade Magazine for noticing our ClassicSpace cuckoo from our NEW /design line.
Tags: cuckoo, design, north coast imports, Romba, Rombach und Haas
January 25th, 2010
Our friend Bill Maier has recently started his own blog to document his impressive collection of rare, antique "Vienna" Regulator Timepieces. Here's a particularly stellar example from his collection:Gilded bronze skeletonized laterndluhr by Fertbauer, C. 1810. Overall height 67". Seconds beating, knife edge suspension riding on a gimbal. The gimbal is held by two L shaped brackets through the
Tags: antique, biedermeier, clock, Vienna Regulator
January 24th, 2010
From ScienceDaily:The world's most precise clock - on which all time-keeping and navigation systems are based - might be made as small as a wristwatch with a new design proposed by an international team of physicists.A new class of atomic clocks of at least equivalent accuracy could be made much smaller and simpler by trapping aluminium, gallium, cesium or rubidium atoms in a lattice of laser
Tags: clock, technology
January 24th, 2010
Cesium has been the element of choice, thus far, for the most accurate clocks. It is in use in our civilian time standard.But make way, Cesium:An experimental atomic clock based on ytterbium atoms is about four times more accurate than it was several years ago, giving it a precision comparable to that of the NIST-F1 cesium fountain clock, the nation's civilian time standard, scientists at the
Tags: clock, technology