So the challenge was to adapt the old clock designs I loved to manufacturer them reasonably in new plastics in the same general style used to create many of my most favorite clocks. I say many because a number of the clocks from this era were cheap die-cast, stamped, or very thin shelled bakelite not Catalyn™. However many were made, and most could have been made with early plastics like Catalyn™, cost is the main factor as the Catalyn™ manufacturing process was (and still is) expensive.

Well I don't use actual Catalyn™, for starters that's really a registered trade mark from the 1920's (and still very much alive today), and besides we have more modern materials available that are colorfast and don't shrink. We have however still retained the original hand poured molding techniques (there's no injection molding machines popping out identical copies by the tens of thousands). Each clock case is poured by hand, cured and then hand polished and final assembled. As a result, each clock is going to be unique, with it's own personality; no two exactly alike but hopefully the same beautiful appearance at the end.

Here is a gallery of assorted pictures of the journey, from CAD drawing start to molded finish...

CAD Drawing

Pattern Building

Finishing

Test Casting's

Lot's of trial and lot's of error...
Very early prototype with that rich Catalyn swirl pattern in butterscotch yellow!
Colors...colors...