Rare Kienzle clock with Potsdamer Gong

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This clock arrived this morning. Apart from a broken glass and the chime rods being slightly out of tune, it was luckily found to be in perfect working order. The Potsdamer Gong movement is unusual in being a two train striking movement adapted to operate a chime barrel, but only at half past. At the hour it just strikes the hour on three notes. The gong block is a typical Westminster block, which luckily has the exact same notes as those of the Garisonskirche in Potsdam where the chime originated. The melody comes from a patriotic German song "Üb Immer Treu Und Redlichkeit". These clocks were made in the 1930s and would never have been sold outside Germany. Hitker was inaugurated in Potsdam and this clock was sold as a commemoration of that event.

Kienzle also built these clocks with excerpts from two other German patriotic songs of the time, "Volk Ans Gewehr" and the "Horst Wessel Song".

Also please note how the chapter ring has been printed with a woodgrain image so it looks skeletonised. I've never seen this done before.

Sorry about the blurred bit when I'm showing the movement.