When my dad was stationed overseas in Idar-Oberstein Germany, he got to know the local trash collectors. Knowing that my dad liked old furniture and clocks. (Before antique collecting became fashionable in Germany) they came across this clock sitting atop a heap of trash and saved it for my dad who customarily offered a carton of cigarettes in exchange. Anyway, this clock was nick-named the Hessian as it features a headless horseback rider. This is a very temperamental clock, that usually succeeds in getting itself stuck whenever the alarm strike. Seems the movement turns ever so slightly not allowing the hammer to strike fully, and this seizes the movement up. (Always stuck in the strike position.) Has a 30 hour movement