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VDO Oval Grill Clock: clockworks serviced Price: $2199US
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NOTE: At Matt's Parts we only sell correct, original clocks for VW, unlike most others on the Samba.
--We have exceptionally nice nice VDO oval grill clock. The clockworks have been serviced by a specialist clockmaker in Germany. They were cleaned and oiled. It is the later version that sits out from the grill using a step bezel and it is held to the grill in the rear using the “cup” and cone nut. The chrome step bezel is in good used condition. The clock runs nicely and we have plated the knob in chrome. Original cone nut is in excellent condition. The clock housing and back cup have been replated in zinc.
PRICE: $2199US
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Shipping and insurance to US is included.
OTHER CLOCKS AVAILABLE
--We have an NOS VDO oval grill clock with nice working used clockworks. (NOTE: the original NOS clockworks were installed into another clock for one of my customers. The price has been reduced accordingly). This is the earliest version of oval grill clocks, produced beginning in 1952, and initially intended for installation in Zwitters (Split window oval dash). It sits flush with the grill (although you can buy the step bezel and use a modified rear mounting bracket). It is dated 8/59
PRICE: $1599US
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Shipping and insurance to US is $35US - elsewhere please enquire.
We have a nice used PEROHAUS (VDO) oval grill clock. It is the later version that sits out from the grill using a step bezel and it is held to the grill in the rear using the “cup” and cone nut. The chrome step bezel is in very good condition. The clock runs nicely and we have plated the cup in zinc and the knob was replated in chrome. The ink date stamp is hard to read but we think it is 7/53 or 7/55.
PRICE: $2499US
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Shipping and insurance to US is $35US - elsewhere please enquire.
----------------------------------------Oval Grill Clock History----------------------------------------
At Matt's Parts we only sell correct original oval grill clocks - just because the housing is 80MM does not mean it is a VW clock yet my competitors would have you think that. For some years now most clocks advertised on Samba and that "Auction" site are not correct clocks.
Two companies that I know of made correct clocks for ovals with clock faces that match the oval speedometer face: VDO and Kohler.
For Kohler, I have only ever had two. Both are sold. I also have had a Kohler glove box clock with face matching the speedo faces.
VDO - the history as I know it.
The earliest oval grill clocks came out in 1952:--the glass was flat,
--The housing was the deepest so the face could sit lower in the housing held by 3 "long legs" hanging from the housing edge so that clock hands clear the glass
--Numbers and slashes on the faces could have a blue/green tinge to them as opposed to white of the later clocks.
--Hands painted either white or military brown
--Knob is longer than later version. Very early knobs screw onto the winding/time set shaft and have a bolt to hold them to the shaft where later ones slide on and have the holding bolt.
--Earlier production has date stamped into the housing. Some later production units are in tachometer housings with no date stamp.
The later versions:
--The glass was curved,
--The housing was shallower and the face is suspended by 3 "short legs" that hang from the housing edge
--The suspension by short legs concept was abandoned in later production units in favour of the face being held to the clockworks by 2 screws-just like speedo faces.
--Numbers and slashes on the faces are white.
--Hands painted either white or military brown
--Knob is shorter than earlier version
--Some have Perohaus at 6 o'clock and VDO at 12 o'clock and some just have VDO at 6 o'clock
--date usually ink stamped on back of housing.
All of the VDO-Perohaus clocks have essentially the same clockworks made by Kienzle (There are minor variances). My clockmaker did say the very latest clockworks had minor improvements in them.
I do not know who made the Kohler clockworks but they are TOTALLY different than the Kienzle's in the VDO clocks.
Finally, 6 volt electric clocks were also made. The knob is in the centre of the face whereas the wind-up clocks are at the bottom at 6 o”clock. The 6 volt knob has a single purpose, to set time whereas the wind-up clock knob has two functions, time setting and winding the main spring.
The electric clocks have a plastic “glass: and operate in a unique way, the clock accepts a short burst of electricity that almost immediately winds a spring, then the clock runs off that wound spring for 15 minutes or so and then BOOM, another jolt of electricity and the spring winds up fully and runs the clock again for 15 minutes or so.
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