If it is a chime clock as you mentioned, the chime is run from the strike side. It sounds like the spring on the strike side is losing power. The springs are very well made, typical German engineering but tend to lose some power over the years due to frequent winding. These clocks are very well made, as well made as a Mauthe and some of their clocks are up to the standards of the finer Gustav Becker clocks of the period. In 1900 it assumed the name Uhrenfabrik Mühlheim, Müller & Co. Schnekenburger around 1880, then by Gebrüder Müller around 1896 when it became Uhrenfabrik Mühlheim Vormals R.
In Schmid’s Lexikon, it states that the original founders of this company in Mühlheim started in 1867. Muller clocks can be dated by the lion logo on the clock face.
Muller clocks have the distinctive Lion on the clock face with the letters U and M under the lion. Your clock is actually not a Mauthe but an Uhrenfabrik Muhlheim, Muller and Co. German movements are well-engineered, keep very good time and are certainly worth the cost of preserving.
The case has a simple but attractive design, is in very good shape and the movement is clean having been serviced recently.
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It runs a full 8-day cycle and has a very pleasant sound. This clock appears to have been produced around the time clock production was winding down, the 1950s. Mauthe stopped clock production before continuing along with the production of wristwatches. The company managed to carry over into the 50s, 60s and 70s, but eventually declared bankruptcy and closed in 1976. In the mid-1930s Mauthe started to manufacture their first wristwatches, some were even supplied to the German Army or “Wehrmacht”.Īfter a brief pause during the war years, Mauthe resumed production from 1946 onward, with the production of wristwatches. About 60% of the clocks were produced for a variety of export markets of which, England was the most important. In 1930, the company produced about 45,000 clocks per week and employed a staff of over 2000. A right-looking eagle with outstretched wings, holding in its talons and a three-part round plate with the letters F, M and S. In 1925 Mauthe announced a new trademark. Fritz Mauthe – son of Jacob and Mauthe Alfred – son of Jacob Mauthe. In 1904 the 3rd generation took over Eugene Schreiber – son of Christian Mauthe, Dr. The number of employees at that time went up to about 1,100 people. In 1886 Mauthe began manufacturing its own spring mechanism.Īround 1900, alarm clocks, pendulum wall clocks, grandfather clocks, office clocks and “Buffet Uhren” or “Buffet clocks” were offered. Mauthe sons Christian and James took over in 1876. Some have been produced by home-work by the so-called “Gewerblern” method, a type of cottage industry, while others have been produced in a more “industrial” or factory way. At the end of the 1860s, Mauthe began to produce their own wall clocks (and movements). In 1844 Friedrich Mauthe and his wife Marie founded the company in Schwenningen, Germany to produce watch parts. Mauthe clocks were made in Germany by a company that had a long and glorious life producing many thousands of wall, mantel, office and hall clocks. Back of the clock showing the 3-train movement Mauthe clock on top of a Stromberg Carlson console radio
It has an unmarked movement (no trademark) and has the number 50089 on the bottom right of the rear plate and there is no doubt that the movement is original to the case. I found it at an antique shop in Great Village, Nova Scotia (Canada) some time ago. It is a 3-train Westminster chime pendulum clock with a 5-rod gong block and quarter-hour musical tone. While this is commonly called a mantel or shelf clock, in Mauthe marketing parlance it is referred to it as a “buffet clock”. This attractive round-top mantel clock is in very good condition for its age. Not all of them are in great shape and many have suffered the ravages of time and neglect. Mauthe Mantel Clocks are common, come in all shapes and sizes and can be found on most online for-sale sites, garage sales, flea markets and antique shops.
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