1,000 day clock by Jahresurhenfabrik.

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The German name JAHRESUHRENFABRIK translates into English as YEAR CLOCK FACTORY, meaning that they produced clocks which typically ran for one year and a month per winding. The company also made clocks which ran 1,000 days per winding. The founder of the Jahresuhrenfabrik clock manufacturing company, August Schatz, served a four year apprenticeship under the famous Master Watchmaker Erhard Emmler. During his apprenticeship, an inventor named Anton Harder submitted an incomplete 400 day clock to Schatz for completion. Schatz improved the design, registered it and had it ready for production by 1882. After manufacturing fine quality 400 day clocks and marketing them world-wide, the Schatz firm which was then named Jahresuhrenfabrik, developed a model that ran not 400-days but actually 1,000 days!!! This was surely a remarkable achievement which took the clock-buying public by surprise and created great demand throughout the world. The 1,000 day Schatz offered here is in MINT condition (see photograph), and has been dated by us circa 1938 due to the glass dome (later models had plastic domes), plus the name GERMANY printed on the dial. Both of these characteristics suggest Pre-WWII manufacture. However, we cannot confirm this dating precisely. This lovely clock has been carefully gone over and inspected by a Master Clockmaker and operates read more

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