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I mentioned Vienna Regulators, but I think it's important to spend a few more minutes
on them because they're an important collecting category, they're beautiful clocks, even as
interest in many Victorian style clocks is diminished, I continue to sell these, Regulator
people just appreciate their quality and form. The style, as you can imagine, originated
in Austria, where these were again, public clocks usually, long thin clocks, very accurate
and the original Austrian ones, the earlier Austrian ones from the earlier 1800's tend
to be beyond the affordability of most Collectors. But you still can find them and if you have
deep pockets those are certainly the ones to collect. Over, later on, most of those
Vienna Regulators were made in Germany, again by the big companies I mentioned, Gustoff-Becker
is a major name in Vienna Regulator manufacturing and you would be very happy to have a Gustoff-Becker
Vienna Regulator if one came along. You can see the basic form here, where there's the
Face, long pendulum that's visible, and these are weight driven clocks. They come in usually
three varieties, the simplest would be a time only, or a One Weight, and that's the way
you hear about Vienna Regulators usually, is the number of weights. The two weight Vienna
Regulator, obviously two weights hanging there, that would be a time and strike, usually they
count the hours and give you a single on the half hour. The three weights, obviously more
valuable, usually bigger clocks, do quarter hour chiming as well, not a melody, not Westminster
chimes like some quarter hours, but you'd get bim-bams. For example at 1:15 you would
get one set of bim-bams, 1:30 two sets, so you'd know which quarter of the hour you're
in. So the one way, two way, three way, depending on your pocketbook, all Vienna Regulators,
beautiful clocks, high quality clocks, great to own.