Early Waltham 8 day car auto clock with power reserve

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This is a Waltham 8 Day clock (with rare power reserve) in good cosmetic condition. The clock used to work ok (for a 1910 clock) when I sent it to away for an overhaul (new mainspring ,etc). It came back and worked for a few days however now it feels 'over-wound' and will not run for any length of time. I'm thinking something may be hung up inside but rather than deal with the incompetent watchmaker again, I decided to post it. Please feel free to contact me with any questions about the clock. Buyer pays actual shipping cost plus insurance. Thanks and good luck! History of Waltham Car Clocks The Waltham Watch Company, based it Waltham Massachusetts in the USA, produced high quality watches, clocks, speedometers and other precision instruments between 1850 and 1957. In 1850 David Davis, Edward Howard and Aaron Lufkin Dennison formed the company that would later become the Waltham Watch Company. The company initially produced watches and then railroad chronometers. In 1911 the Waltham Watch Company began to manufacture car clocks or "automobile timepieces," as they were described by the company. All of the early automobile clock manufacturers faced the challenge of producing clocks that could withstand the substantial vibration transmitted to clocks fitted to the early automobiles. The solution developed by Waltham was a rugged clock based on the "37 size watch" movement. These were 8 day movements powered by 2 mainsprings. They are most commonly 7 jewel but some 15 jewel car clocks were also produced. There were two basic models produced - the model 1910 (named for the year it was designed) and the later version known as the model 1926 which was the year of the major redesign of the movement. The production of these clocks continued wth different variations of cases and styling well into the 1930s. Some variants have an indicator on the dial (a red dot) that provides an indication that the clock needs to be wound. The 37 size watch movements were used in a wide variety of other Waltham clocks produced in the 1920s and 1930s including travel clocks, desk clocks, ships clocks and chronometers, display clocks and wall clocks. The early Waltham car clocks were quite expensive at the time and only a limited number of premium makes such as Packard and Pierce Arrow fitted the Waltham car clocks as standard equipment. They were successfully marketed as aftermarket accessories and were popular among the owners of the more common makes and are often found onto the Fords, Buicks and Dodge cars of the period. They were later fitted as standard equipment on a wider range of car makes.