The Eureka Clock Company Ltd.

The Eureka Clock was the brainchild of Timothy Bernard Powers. Powers was an electrical engineer living in New York on Broadway. His first patent was applied for on 12 May 1906. Several other patents were to follow. The Patents that Powers applied for were for the design of a movement that featured an electromagnetic balance wheel. This was powered by a constant voltage of c.1.5 volts is required to ensure consistency in the amplitude of oscillation. Enter the Kutnow Brothers of New York and formally from London, England, where they had a manufacturing business. The Kutnow Brothers were interested in Powers' patent and provided him with some financial assistance. They soon encouraged him to move to London sometime before 1908 to produce this mechanism/clock. Powers moved to England. He is listed first as living at the Charter House Hotel, Charterhouse Square in London, and then at 361 City Road in London. The Eureka Clock Clock Ltd was formed in London in 1908 by the Kutnows and Frank Jowett, the Company's secretary. The city address was 361/363 City Road. The Eureka Clock Company made clocks between the years 1908 and 1914. Fifteen case styles were offered in their catalogs. Most of the 10,000 clocks they made are numbered. A series of timepieces are also recorded with serial numbers between 12,000 and 14,000. These examples are thought to have been offered in non-cataloged cases. Most of these have been found with larger painted metal dials, often 12 inches in diameter. The cases are custom-made, most of which are straightforward designs. It is currently thought that they made approximately 15,000 clocks before their demise in 1914.