![]() If it's your own and you want to change the movement, then go for it if you must, but you're not learning anything. If you can't do that, then maybe these 'so-called' pro's should leave their fingers out of them. As H/C and others have stated, I also prefer to fix them. I'm becoming more and more fed up with this through away mentality. Sure, they won't be as sought after as the old Beha's, however. At one point, the old cuckoo's will become antiques. I've rebuilt every cuckoo clock that's come my way, never installed a "replacement" movement. and it still won't look like it once did. Now, the case needs rework, new 275g weights, different plywood spacers, closing up the old holes, putting new holes in, filling and repainting the hole-plugs etc. All told, I feel the customer would have been better served if the original Hubert Herr movement would have been cleaned & overhauled with new bushings. Sisd to side spacing between the Regula and Herr movements is different as well. ![]() Then, the chain made some severe ruts into the chain-holes, as it was misaligned fore-aft at least 1/2". The pinecone weights are not original, but one runs the chime train. The carvings on the clock are classic made of solid wood, and I do not know if the pendulum is original or not. This is a clock made by Hubert Herr, a very good quality maker. This would be great for someone to use for spare parts or to restore it back to its former glory. The back panel of the clock is missing & the chains are jammed & tangled. All told, it needed 8 bushings, as the heavy weights were way to much. This is an absolutely delightful little cuckoo clock that I found in an antique shop about a year ago. Hubert Herr cuckoo clock for parts, spares or restoration. Now, after around 5 yrs, the customer complains that it doesn't run any more. Although they used roughly 3/8" thick plywood "spacers" under the movement feet, the chain holes did not line up. We deal with cuckoo clocks professionally for years, we know our product and are able to help. All cuckoo clocks carry a certificate of authenticity and are made by highly respected manufacturers like Hubert Herr, Rombach & Haas and Hekas. Kept the original weights (420g), vice using the Regula optimum 275g weights. All our cuckoo clocks are imported directly from the manufacturer in Germany and are in stock in the US. Someone long-ago substituted a Regula 25B. Based on the chain hole pattern and dimensions (side to side and fore-aft hole locations), it originally had an older Hubert Herr movement. He, and his son Juergen (7th generation) has been creating cuckoo clocks in ever since, inventing new designs and, above all, new movements that have found a new place in many households in Germany and overseas.Just working on one of these Cuckoo clocks. Adolf Herr, Rudolf´s son, married to Gerlinde Eble, whose great-grandfather, and father had also been clockmakers, opened his own business in 1977 – the House of Black Forest Clocks. HUBERT HERR cuckoo clocks In 2020 we, the watch manufacturer Helmut Kammerer Schonach, took over the traditional company Hubert Herr from Triberg with its. Bernhard Herr, born 1842, Robert Herr, born 1876, and Rudolf Herr, born 1901, established a family tradition in making fine clocks. View attachment 697117 Antique cuckoo clock hand shafts. From then on, the clock making art was handed down from father to son. The pictures below are of my dads antique cuckoo clock showing a close-up view of the hand shafts, and the hand mounting nuts, and the view of the front of the clock overall and a picture of the original top trim piece that was broken when the clock fell off the wall. His son in law, Christian Herr, born 1814 was clock maker, too. ![]() His son in law, Johann Baptist Rainer, born in 1763 continued the clock making tradition. Hubert Herr Cuckoo Clock - HH65/26/8VRM Hubert Herr Cuckoo Clock - HH65/34/8VRM Hubert Herr Cuckoo Clock - HH187/8-RM-WR Hubert Herr Cuckoo Clock - HH65/36/8. In the 1780´s Adolf Herr´s ancestor, Johann Hiller, already built clocks in the Black Forest. In 1730 Anton Ketterer built the first cuckoo clock. The company founded in the beginning of the nineteenth century is now world famous and ships clocks to over sixty countries. ![]() The Cuckoo Clocks carry the Quality label and Certificate of Authenticity. HerrZeit by Adolf Herr HerrZeit by Adolf HerrĪdolf Herr – Creator of Black Forest Clocks of long tradition Hubert Herr Cuckoo Clocks are made in Triberg, Germany. ![]()
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