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Got 'em today
Got the Eye, the Kite and the Steering Wheel clocks today from All World.
Both of the Eye and Kite have second hands. Both of 'em are solid and beautiful. (The Kite is bigger than I had thought).
The Steering Wheel has silver hands and no second hand. it's solid, but the orange hour marks are just taped on. I've actually seen it before and it's not quite as nifty as the original.
Happy with the quality....but one thing I DON'T like...the click click of the second hands and the fact that they don't turn smoothly. It's an issue with the contemporary motor....I'm sure I could replace this motor with one that doesn't click click click.

noisy clocks
I have the Vitra reissue of the Nelson watermelon clock and it also is very noisy with the clicking, so this problem is not limited only to "unofficial" reissues...

Noisy...indeed
That's why I prefer 'em to be electric. When they work well, they whisper quiet and the second moves smoothly without the second hesitation that looks soooooooooooo tacky.
But, hell, $159 for 3 beautiful clocks ain't nothing to sneeze at.

i am all clocked out i ...
i am all clocked out i got three sets of hands from vitra and working all night on my clocks and they exhausted me ,
Did I do the wrong thing ? I bought a Howard miller star clock on ebay for 135.00 yes original and a great deal , saw some guy trying to get 770.00 for the same clock still listed i think. i have no idea what he is thinking but this is ebay not wright auction, what a joke of course the original electric clock did not work so I pulled the motor and put a quartz in and had to do some minor refitting,
my wife said i ruined the clock but i like them to run. when you have as many as i do that is the fun to have them all keeping time.
i hate to have clocks that do not run
the bad thing the original howard miller nelson hands will not fit a quartz so i ordered a new set from vitra this evening and I will get it all together , actually our friends at vitra make it very difficult for their hands fit a regular hobby lobby clock movement.
since we use to be in the Jewelry business i have Jewelry files and got them out for some minor tweaking on the hands but the rest of you would have a rough time as it was very time consuming and all three had to be done , one had to have a sleve made similar to a veneer on your teeth cause they would not even fit a quart movement . I have no idea why they would do that unless they wanted you to buy a 18 dollar movement rather then a 5 buck one.
I really dont care if i diminished the value cause when i am dead and gone there will be enough money from oil and gas royalty for the family so they wont have to worry about a 1956 Nelson star clock from Howard miller. to sell for the next meal
but I am gonna say so get ready to all jump
I think i would rather have a nice repodution all decked out with a nice quartz then fool with some of these originals (they sure look nicer) but put it in your log I do own the originals!!@!! and could care less, the last clock is not a Nelson it is a Welby and a dam good one,

Sharp
Looking sharp LRF!

i got a little to ...
i got a little to obsessive with these tonight
i do like to collect them but I think i am getting close to the end, as I have most of the Nelsons so if you can think of some other cool ones to collect and go after let me know,

My Apologies
Alexandersforum you are correct. In scrolling through the Vitra timeline I mixed up the dates on two statements; when Vitra was granted rights by Herman Miller(56-7), and when they acquired rights from the Nelson Estate(mid 80s).

LRF
Hey LRF,
At least one of these clocks by Frederick Weinberg deserves to be in your collection.

Holy Sh*t
Check out these 14 insanely beautiful and rare clocks.
No doubt about it, Nelson was one of the kings of mid century designers.

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How bout 19 more?????
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