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From: C. Marin Faure (no email)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 02:03:13 EDT
From: Peter McCorison <>
Subject: TWL: Re: Chelsea Instruments
>I went through a similar experience some years ago with Chelsea & West
Marine. The clock works ok to this day, though the always weak chime quit
quite a while ago. The third barometer's hand actually did move a little
bit sometimes. I've decided that both are best reagrded as decoration.
For every bad experience there is usually at least one good one. Four
years ago we purchased a Chelsea Shipstrike quartz clock. Worked great,
although I wasn't thrilled with the sound of the chime. Then we bought a
matching Chelsea barometer. Works great, very accurate. Two years ago a
friend gave us the key-wind version of the Chelsea Shipstrike clock for
Christmas, which has a much nicer chime than the electric model, or at
least our electric model. Installed the key-wind clock in the boat.
Works great. Took the quartz electric clock home to the study. Works
great.
I assume everyone knows the Shipstrike series of instruments are NOT made
by Chelsea. Only the brass cases are. The key-wind mechanism in the
mechanical clock is purchased from a supplier in Germany. The electric
mechanism in the quartz clock is also purchased abroad, I think from
Germany as well, but I could be wrong on that. And the barometer mechanism
is made by a supplier in Europe, too. France, I believe, or perhaps
Germany. So the only thing you can really blame directly on Chelsea if
these instruments don't work is if the brass case tarnishes or corrodes.
(Of course, you'd like to think a company with Chelsea's reputation would
make sure the mechanisms they purchased from suppliers were up to Chelsea's
standards.)
Chelsea does still make a clock from scratch, or at least they assemble it
from scratch, and they may do a barometer from scratch as well. But this
"real" Chelsea clock is way, WAY more expensive than the Shipstrike series
of clocks. Places like West Marine generally don't carry them. You can
see it at Chelsea's website, and there are outlets that carry it.
It's my understanding from the couple of people I know who have them that
the "real" Chelsea clock is damn near bulletproof, at least in terms of
reliability and operation.
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C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, WA
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