VINTAGE 1960’s PETER F. BOLLENBACH COMPANY SOLID WOOD CHIME WALL CLOCK

Color

Brown

Type

Wall Clock

Original Or Reproduction

Antique original

One of a kind! Still works great and holds time as well as the hourly chime. Comes with the key. Excellent Condition Info on Peter F. Bollenbach Company: Peter F. Bollenbach Company operated from the early 1960s to the early 1980s in Barrington, IL (northwest of Chicago). Peter Sr. and his wife were buyers for Marshall Fields in Chicago in the 1940s & 50s and he decided to start making antique reproduction mantle and wall clocks to sell through stores in the Midwest and the factory. The assembly shop was in the basement of a large building in downtown Barrington and the carpenter shop that made the cases was in Carpentersville in the old pump house alongside the Fox River. The crew milled and assembled the cases and then they were trucked to the Barrington location for movement installation. The firm name was fixed to the clock faces but the movements were purchased from original manufacturers, be they wind up or quartz. Some of the wind up movements had "Bollenbach" engraved on them. I happened to be at the shop one day when a large case of Kienzle quartz movements arrived from Germany, all packed in neat, Styrofoam rows. I also remember a photo album of Bollenbach clocks shown in movies as several set dressers in Hollywood used the reproduction clocks in movies and TV shows. Pete Jr. and I raced sports cars in the SCCA in the 1970s and he was best man at my wedding in 1979. A Bollenbach mantle clock was his wedding present to us (they retailed at about $200). The clock business slowed dramatically in the early 1980s and as Pete Sr. was already retired, Pete Jr. closed the clock business.