Name/Title
ClockContext
On top of Judge Thomas Cochran's desk in the Upstairs Hall of the Neill-Cochran House Museum sits a brass clock under a glass dome. This clock was made by Kienzle, Germany's oldest watchmaking company, founded by Johannes Schlenker in 1822 in the city of Schwenningen. It is what is known as a perpetual motion clock, or a "400-day anniversary clock," because it only needed to be wound every 400 days.
The clock stands 16 inches tall with a wide, tiered base and six fluted columns that support the clock face, the mechanism, and the domed top. It sits under a glass dome that keeps the dust off the internal mechanism which includes a four-bob "anniversary pendulum' that spins instead of swinging. This clock is wound with a special key, and once wound, can keep time reliably for more than a year.
The Kienzle clock is part of the Cochran Collection, and was given to the Neill-Cochran House Museum by Mary Cochran Bohls. You can see it, and all of our timeless artifacts, Wed-Sun, 11-4pm.Acquisition
Accession
2010.01Source or Donor
Mrs. Everett Dayton Bohls (Mary Jewell Cochran)Acquisition Method
Gift