Wall clocks, generations old

Simple design never ages.

Clock Manufactured in Switzerland in 1952

Original electric mechanisms, restored by hand in Switzerland.

Connect to wifi once, and it keeps internet time on its own.

Set it up in a minute. Never set it again.

Vintage mechanism. Modern timekeeping.

Vintage wall clocks are popular, but they’re not all equal. Too often the original mechanism has been swapped for a cheap quartz movement. The clock still looks the part, but something important has gone. It’s like fitting a Ferrari chassis with a sewing machine engine. It’ll look good in your driveway, strangers will be impressed, but you’ll always know.

Our clocks keep their original mechanisms. They were built to take their time from a master clock somewhere else in the building, and those master clocks are long gone. So we made a modern replacement: the VEEB Clock Driver.

How our Clock Driver works

The original mechanisms rely on one piece of physics. Electricity flowing through a coil of wire makes a magnet, and the direction of the current decides which end of the coil is north and which is south.

Once a minute, the Clock Driver does the master clock’s old job. It sends a short pulse of electricity out of its red and black connectors, reversing the direction each time.

Inside the mechanism is a small magnet that can spin, called the magnet rotor (or the spinny magnet). Opposite poles attract, so its south end swings toward whichever end of the coil is north. When the current reverses, the coil’s poles swap and the spinny magnet makes a half turn to line up again.

Each half turn moves the minute hand on by one minute. The hour hand goes round once for every 12 turns of the minute hand.

Running 30 times faster than real time

Inside the clock

Each mechanism has a character of its own, and that includes how it sounds. In the video below, a selection of them are adjusting to the correct time. Every tick you hear is the minute hand stepping forward. Once they’re set, that happens once a minute: a small sound that punctuates the silence and soon becomes part of your day.

Sympathetic Restoration

We clean, service and adjust every movement by hand, and we leave the marks of earlier work where we find them.

Back of a Favag clock case with handwritten French service entries dated from 1944 to 1955, several signed by the technician.
This Favag clock was serviced multiple times between 1944 and 1955, each visit noted by hand on the back of the case.

Restored in Switzerland. Rehomed worldwide.

Each pin marks a clock that has begun its next chapter after passing through our Swiss workshop. The map is still growing.

VEEB Alumni

From the workshop

VEEB has been restoring clocks in Basel since 2020. We also build things from scratch, with the same care that goes into every clock movement: a calendar that just shows the date, a display that shows a daily quote. No algorithm, no notifications, no nagging to check out a podcast. Same design philosophy, different century.