This thread reminds me that I never posted about my experience with Michael Eck (
www.jaguarclock.com). I didn't post this last year because I wanted to make sure the clock worked more than 6 months or so, and then I forgot all about it until I started reading this discussion.
I found Michael about a year and a half ago when I was surfing for info on repairing Smith's clocks. He specializes in Jaguar clocks, but Smiths is Smiths and I exchanged emails with him and a couple of other people who I also found with the same search. What I liked about Michael was the fact that he didn't actual alter the clock by putting in a quartz movement. There is quite a bit of information about what he does on his website. Tom H: this will probably make more sense to you than anyone, and may give you some ideas on how you could do this yourself. Also, here's what he wrote to me in one of our early emails:
I sent him my SV clock and $85 (it looks like he's raised his prices to $100 since then) last spring (March 1999) and got the clock back within a few weeks. It has worked almost flawlessly ever since. I say almost because I have found that if I cut the power to the clock it will sometimes not start right back up unless I jiggle it a bit. I imagine he would have taken care of this niggle if I had let him know about it earlier, but it never seemed worth the effort. I never bothered putting the mounting bracket back on (the clock is a tight fit in the wooden dashboard) and I just rotate it a bit to restart it if needed. Otehr than that, I am very happy to have a working clock and consider it money well spent. I will definitely send my S3 clock to him when I get closer to putting that car back together.
