Waterbury, a city in western Connecticut, USA, developed early on as a clock making region. Waterbury Co. was born here as a clock company and it had chiefly produced and supplied a lot of good clocks from 1857 to 1944. Many Waterbury clocks were imported to Japan in the Meiji Period (1868~1912). This clock is one of them, and has a cherry plywood case with a 10 inch painted clock face, and beautiful gold leaf lines both around it and the pendulum house. They have been kept completely. Waterbury clock was often used as a model of Japanese clock at that time.
Japanese clock makers started making Japanese clocks thoroughly investigating, and imitating foreign clocks (especially Americans’) . Waterbury was one of them. For example, the left two clocks resemble each other, this Waterbury clock and the Kyoto clock.
京都時計製造所 Kyoto Clock Factory
ウオーターベリー社 Waterbury Co.
マリア書房 「緑青」Vol. 9 より
機械部分は、オーソドックスなアメリカ型です。
この機械をモデルに、たくさんの日本の時計の機械がつくられました。
The mechanism is an orthodox style of American clocks at that time. Many Japanese clock machines were made with this machine as a model.
機械の刻印 The stamp on the machine
振り子室のラベル The label in the pendulum room
文字盤を取り巻く金箔のライン The gold leaf lines surrounding the clock face
オリジナル・キー The original key
桜合板を張ったケース The case covered with cherry plywood
背中に何枚も張られた修理票。こんなのも、実に嬉しいですね。
The repair slips stuck on the back It is so happy to find such kind of things.