Ball clocks serve many purposes:
– They can be used as decorative elements due to their antique appearance
– They can be given to children to teach them the basics of mathematics.
– Can be stored in offices
– It can be used as a gift on any occasion.
Ball clocks have the look and feel of an antique item. These watches were invented by Harley Mayenschein. He later founded the Tyme Corporation to manufacture these wonderful watches. He had patented the watch under the name of the Tyme Corporation. Tyme Corporation used to make these watches for 20 years. And after that, the rights were sold to Arrow Handicraft. This company called Arrow Handicraft now makes these clocks under the traditional name of “Electric Ball Clock”.
The operation of these watches, as their name suggests, is based on balls. The balls inside the watch are used to indicate the hour and minute. There are three rails inside the watch. These rails have certain numbers written on them. To know the time we have to combine the readings in the three lanes. Reading in the sense, from each lane we have to take the numeral where the last ball is. The first rail indicates the minutes. The readings on this rail are from 1-4. That’s 5, 15, 25, etc. up to 55. And the reading on the last rail shows the hours. So, to know the time, we have to look at the balls that are on the three rails. And we have to read the time from the bottom rail.
In ball watches, there is no mechanism to display time in seconds. This is one of the main drawbacks of this watch. This is due to the fact that these watches were invented long ago when the seconds had no meaning, when the inaccuracy of time did not matter at all. Later, precision became a factor, but the Tyme Corporation was unable to introduce the concept of seconds into those watches, because the new concept of indicating seconds would never fit into the older architecture. And if they tried to introduce the concept of seconds into this old architecture, they would have to introduce one more rail to indicate the seconds. And that meant a bigger watch. This meant that they will not be able to maintain the legendary size of the ball clock. So the Tyme Corporation dropped the idea of making those clocks more accurate. Rather, they began to promote these watches more as an antique piece than a watch that showed exact time. And from then on people also started calling these watches as vintage watches.
Isn’t this a really fascinating history of these wonderful old clocks? Just think, who wouldn’t want the dignity of having these clocks in their offices or homes? Wouldn’t your customers be delighted to receive these wonderful gifts and also free promotional gifts from you? I am very sure that I have given you more than enough reasons to use ball watches as promotional gifts.