Jerger travel alarm clock
Hi! The other day I was in a thrift shop and my eye fell on this beauty. We spent quite some time figuring out what it was and more importantly, does it work?
We wound it up and it seemed like the second pointer was broken but it was slowly moving the bigger pointers so we haggled the price and bought it for 10 bucks.
Turns out it wasnt broken, thats an alarm pointer. The clock is a 2 jewel system or something everyone who sees it falls in love with its ticking its amazing. Feeling good myself listening it as we speak. You need to wind it every day and its a bit hard to set up the allarm but it does function as well and has a loud ass ring.
As you can see its kinda in great condition minus a scratch on the inside of the case. Also it glows in the dark. Which made me realize it was like older, bc of the stories about the radium girls painting the clocks and getting a cancer. You can see the beauty glow in the last pic.
The glass seems to be perfectly intact (something chatgpt told us to make sure of once we mentioned it glows in the dark).
Who has more info about this beauty? When was it made? We are trying to find out but neither of us know shit about clocks. We think its not the first model and jeger made clocks since 1905 so definitietly more recent than that. Should we be concerend about the whole radium paint or is it fine? Is it worth anything? We read somewhere that if they are fully functional (so including the alarm) they are.
Has anyone else ever had one and do you too think the ticking is magical?