Our Store, 1-800-4CLOCKS.com, is one of the largest clocks retailers in the world. We specialize in grandfather clocks, but also stock and sell many wall clocks, mantle clocks, atomic clocks, cuckoo clocks, and on and on. We carry both new and antique clocks. Pocket watches too. The brands we carry include Howard Miller Clocks, Hermle Clocks, [...]
A grandfather clock has become a very generous, but not uncommon, gift from parents to the bride and groom to be. We have had bridal registry requests for grandfather clocks. Frequently these are families that have grown up with a grandfather clock in their home, and the parents want their children to have the same heartwarming [...]
Well, we had thought we had heard just about everything! But just when we think it's safe to say we have heard everything, well, you know how it goes. Kind of like just when you think it's safe to go back in the water. We never learn. Or at least the entertainment industry has a vested [...]
Recent years have been accompanied by the incorporation of new features and technologies into mechanical grandfather clocks, mechanical mantle clocks, as well as keywound wall clocks. Some of these same, and additional features, have also been included in the quartz of battery driven versions of wall clocks, mantel clocks, and grandfather and grandmother clocks. Not all [...]
If one asks the average clock shopper what are the very best brands of clocks out there historically, including grandfather clocks, mantel clocks, and wall clocks, the answers given will be all over the map. Interestingly, though, one can be sure that much of the time one will here of Tiffany & Company as the best [...]
1-800-4CLOCKS gets dozens of calls every day from individuals wanting to know "how much" their clock is worth. Even more complicated is people who call who already have had appraisals done on their grandfather clocks, wall clocks or mantle clocks. Aside from the fact that our website states we charge $100 an hour for research on [...]
Growing up in the great US of A, the poster in this Blog has naturally seen a zillion, or perhaps a google, of television episodes where there is a clock that is a mainstay in the background. Grandfather Clocks in the background come to mind immediately from such shows as The Cosby Show and All in [...]
At 1-800-4CLOCKS, we have been absolutely besieged by Customers who want to sell items they own which contain solid gold in it's different forms, e.g. 14 gold, 18k gold, etc. The television advertising Cash4Gold has only accelerated this trend. By the way, our personal view is one that sending away one's gold to an entity without [...]
We are always seeking feedback from our customers on how we can improve the grandfather clocks and other clocks we offer, as well as input on adding new ones. We had ventured into the Pet Clocks™ niche, which we are still pursuing, albeit with fewer resources than we had originally planned. We read today about a [...]
Grandfather clocks have always been one of the quintessential gifts for Fathers Day from their grown children. We see this happening this time every year, and it's wonderful to see grown children willing to be so generous to the ones who in many cases gave or helped make them what they are today, and in some [...]