"michael adams" wrote in message
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"Harold Davis" wrote in message
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Does someone know where I might get hold of a decent mechanical alarm
clock?

Unfortunately not. Not only have mechanical clocks and watches
been rendered obsolete by electronics - wiping out 500 year old
traditions of precision engineering skills at a stoke - but the
remaining mechanical alarm clocks, as you've seen for yourself,
seem to be sold solely on price.

What seems to have happened is the the sort of person who
nowadays would be willing to pay £100 or £150* for a decent
mechanical alarm clock constructed out of machined metal
parts rather than moulded plastic,

There just aren't enough of those people to cover the manufacturers wages
bill.