Antique and vintage clocks have quickly become a valuable decorative element and are very popular among interior designers because they add a timeless, dramatic and charming statement.
Whether it is an oversized clock or a grouping of smaller clocks, they create excellent focal points and make a big design statement. From a little desk clock to a stately grandfather clock and everything in between, a clock is the perfect accent piece, especially when they are used in a living room above the fireplace mantel, on an empty wall above the sofa, above a console table in an entryway, above the bed, or as a collection on a refractory table in the entrance.
Here at the Crown Collection, we love displaying a collage of smaller clocks – gilded and wooden – on a mantelpiece and entrance table, propped up at different heights on wooden writing slopes.
(Please note that all clocks sold are for their decorative value. We recommend the clock being serviced and restored to working order if required. Not all clocks have weights and/or pendulums and keys. We can refer you to a clock servicing company in Johannesburg or Cape Town should you require).
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6094 History of clock as received from previous owners: Dear Sir, I was going through your web site when I noticed this clock. This clock was gifted to my parents , Carel and Selma (surname) in 1965, by the late Dick King. He was the grandson of Dick King, the man who rode from Durban to Grahamstown to warn the British about a Zulu attack. The person who gave this clock to my parents inhereted the clock from his parents, who intern inherted it from their father, the man who rode himself into history. The day we collected the clock on his farm, he fetched out of his rondawel on his farm in the Standerton district. The glass of the clock was broken, so my late Dad had a new glass cut . My late Mother painted the glass in this gold paint and was inspired by a relief that was on a piano that she inhereted from her mother. My Dad wanted it to be painted in white , but she decided to have it in gold. When they passed away in 2004, I inhereted the clock. I did not have a place for it and gifted it to Claudia (surname), a lady who was a great help to me to sell a lot of my parents stiff that I inhereted. The piano from where the gold motif inspiration came from, is standing at one of my daughters, in Johannesburg. So if you do sell this clock and the new buyers want this history, I shall gladly give it to them. Regards, Name (please contact our store for the details of the previous owner)