Expert: Kenneth Saunders - 10/24/2008

Question
Just trying to date this one.  It's marked
80
TWL (2) jewels
1050-020

Still working nicely.  I just oiled it lightly.  The chime selector switch on the side wasn't working.  When I laid it over on the face in my lap to do the oiling, it started working again when I stood it upright.  Something loose on the front side of the movement perhaps?

Answer
Hermle quit putting the year of manufacture on the back of their clocks in 1988- buyers of clocks made by furniture companies like Howard Miller , etc were getting upset customers to complain that the date on the movement did not match sometimes the year they bought the clock (what with shipping, handling, build time, storage and time on the retail showroom floor, etc.)

 Hermle started in 1988 coding the date with letters
A = 1988   so yours is 80= 1980

Perhaps.