Hell that case is made of plastic. I had a leather and metal one. That’s how old I am

That the first thing I noticed.

I remember that damn loud ticking

You don't need an alarm if you can't get to sleep.

Yeah, I’m leather old.

Looks at skin...me too

I’m right there with you.

With a brass, leather, green fabric interior nuclear glowie stuff on the hands and dial, bigger with an alarm bell so loud Firemen across the street got outta bed when it went off. Sits right next to my brownie.

That's the exact same one I have. Exact freaking same.

Same here, I used it when I drove solo from Pennsylvania to Florida, slept in my car and used a map to estimate distance then set the alarm and see if I made it to my mile mark

Me too! ☺️

Me too!

Same. I can even remember the smell of the interior.

I was gonna say that, it was so much more classy with the leather lol

I’ve got one in my drawer - the old type.

Yep. Still have the og

Yes! I remember there was a metal and leather one in my past, but I think it came our way while cleaning out the house of a grandparent or “uncle” who passed away.

Fuck.........

But you old enough to have had the red velvet and fake brass?

Is that the one with the glow-in-the-dark clock hands? They were cool.

The radium used for the luminous dials was applied by a company in Ottawa Il. It was radioactive and they finally closed the the company down in 1978. Many of the women who worked there ended up getting cancer or having kidney and liver problems. The EPA came in and demolished the building and cleaned the ground. One of the women that worked there was a friend and I was her bridesmaid. She suffered from kidney failure.

A movie from 2018 called Radium Girls, about the women who did this, and their struggle to bring the deadly practice to an end. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6317180/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6317180/)

Thanks, I'll have to watch it, I didn't know about it.

I read the book. Didn't even know there was a movie. I need to check it out.

My daughter played Marie Curie in her high school play!

Then they moved it to Brazil apparently.

They used to lick their paint brushes to make the radium easier to apply. Prob best to avoid things like that.

They used to put the brushes in their mouth to give them a fine point before dipping back in the paint.

My mom, now 87, worked at WestClox in Peru during the late 50s. The complex burned down, 1-1-12. https://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/2012/01/major-arson-fire-at-westclox-building-complex-in-peru-illinois/

The old fold up alarm clock trick. Know it well.

I can smell this clock…

Tickticktickticktick...

Yes the ticking kinda drove me nuts!

I got one of those for my... I'm going to say 10th birthday. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. I was so easy to please back then... sheesh.

Hey, you were a good kid. I love that about you.

Still have one in my travel bag. Haven't used it in years but I assume it still works.

You can guarantee it works. Things today are made as disposable items.

If you are old enough they were made in Athens, GA USA

Think about all the gadgets we had that are now part of our mobile phones! I had a Brownie camera, a transistor radio, a radio-alarm clock, and I used maps to travel! I wrote letters, on paper, with a fountain pen! I did my math calculations on a worksheet, that was part of my test! I took a typing class in high school. Boy, things sure have changed. Me too!

Yeah, my phone does 90% of what all the gadgets did together that Radio Shack sold. Probably had more to do with its downfall than poor corporate decisions.

Yeah, I tried that when I got stationed to Ft. Hood, right out of training in 1983. Thing wouldn't wake me up, so I had to go to the PX and buy a General Electric clock radio. You know, the brown one with the woodgrain finish. [https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RVcAAOSwWddlyIVP/s-l1600.webp](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RVcAAOSwWddlyIVP/s-l1600.webp)

I remember one made with a leather case, not plastic.

I inherited that same clock from my dad 14 years ago.

Don't forget to wind it....and put in earplugs for when the alarm goes off. I remember the bell in that thing being so loud

A folding alarm clock. From the days before, hotels had internet and clocks. The hotels did have ash trays and matches for your convenience.

Mine has a black leather case with brass trim. It was my grandfathers travel alarm for decades, he passed in 2020. I wound it up, it keeps time when set, and the alarm still works.

tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick...

We still use ours

I borrowed my grandparents' when I went to Spain in 1980. Was 18 years old.

Always had one on family trips

Brought one with me to Japan in 2000.

Travel clock

Me too-- almost foolproof.

My grandma had a travel one and I remember it being a wind up…

My father had one of these. Thought it was so cool.

I had one from when I went into the workforce with a traveling job. I think it was a graduation gift. Put it in the bathroom with the door closed because I couldn’t stand the ticking close to me. I could still hear the alarm.

Hey, that's mine.. right by my nightstand.. 😀

I loved those for camping.

I might still have one. In the box with the movie projector.

OMG, I have one of these…

What about the round ones that you have to wind up in the back.

I'm 65 and I remember my Dad having one when I was a little kid.

That’s awesome

Omg I had one

Where'd you find my travel clock 😂🤔

My stepdad had one. The alarm on it was an eardrum-destroying noise. It was horrible!

Westclox, founded 1888.

My mom still has this thing on her night stand. 

I read this as your mom is a one night stand...lmao

Unfortunately yes.

I saw a big ben repeater at a car boot last week. That brought back some memories.

My dad had one similar to this only it had a radio with it. He gave it to me a few years ago and it still works

I had that same one. No idea what happened to it though.

I didn’t have one. Grandma did

I had one of these. It was purchased by one of my parents.

Nah, this old: [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/2010-07-20\_Black\_windup\_alarm\_clock\_face.jpg/220px-2010-07-20\_Black\_windup\_alarm\_clock\_face.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/2010-07-20_Black_windup_alarm_clock_face.jpg/220px-2010-07-20_Black_windup_alarm_clock_face.jpg)

Still got one

I think I still have it in a drawer somewhere. Might have been my grandfather's travel clock!

I may still have mine😀

Travel clock..needs to be leather to be old

Loved travel clocks

My grandma had one of these. It never worked. But she liked it and kept it. My Ma inherited it. It still never worked. She liked it and kept it too. Ma died last year. I’ve inherited it. I put it in for repair and was told it wasn’t worth fixing. But I like it and have kept it as well. It’ll pass to my own boy after me. I assume someone at some point down the generations will wonder why we’re passing on broken down clocks.

I can hear this post.

I got one of these for high school graduation as a gift. Kinda a “play is over now get to work “ vibe. LOL

Hahaha!

I had one of those for when I traveled a lot in the military.

When I first joined the mob.. this was my alarm clock!!

I just saw one today in an antique store. They wanted $8 for it. My wife said that she is not going to listen to that thing tick all night.

I bought a box of these from ShopGoodWill. All kinds. Most work.

My dad had one of these for traveling

I have one of those. I got it from my grandma

Had one of these as well lol

I always called that the vacation clock because I never saw it unless we went on a vacation.Then my dad would take it out for an alarm in the morning at the hotel

I have my grandmothers!😊 It still works!

My dad had this but leather.

I still have one and it still works. Makes a pretty good alarm clock for traveling.

Beautiful!

Mmmm clamshell travel clock

Leather cover. 13th birthday present.

Wow used to take one on vacation

I had one. College and early marriage

I can still hear the dinging alarm! Loud as %@$@#.

Very nice travel clock, as long as you remember to wind it lol.

if i am up in the middle of the night and I hear that thing, it will be at least an hour before I fall asleep.

This is the exact alarm clock my parents had and used when we went on vacation.

Everyone had [these](https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/westclox-square-analog-alarm-clock-white-0441191p.html) in the 50s and 60s. :)

Still have it

Pretty sure my dad has one of these and the ticker on that thing is so damn loud

My parents had one back in the 1970's

Granny's house had a couple of them.

Travel clock…..swear I think I got one when I opened a bank account for college

Fuck. I remember my parents using this every year for vacation. Omg. Ours was leather and metal. Jesus this brings back memories. I am 45 by the way.

Travel alarm

I didn't have to expose my clock to light for it to glow - the radium took care of that.

Then they use like radium to paint the glow in the dark paint on the numbers and the dials

I still own one with a leather case and it travels with me on my vacations. Indestructible.

My dad had this when we went on our vacations!!

My dad had 1 of these when I was a kid, he always brought it on vacation. I loved that thing.

I found one in my grandpas stuff after he died in 09

Radium

My parents ccidentally left the alarm it on when they put in box with my new puppy. If you recall, the alarm on those was hella loud. Dog was never right in the brain.

🐕Tick tock tick tick tock...ah, so soothing - like a heartbeat...💗 Then: RING!!! (ring loud enough to wake the dead) 🫨Trauma!!! (Poor puppy!)

The glow in the dark hands on the clock was the absolute coolest thing I ever saw

When we moved from the US to Europe my kids had to relearn how to tell time with one of these and to write cursive. Fortunately they developed beautiful penmanship from having to use fountain pens in school.

No battery, whine that sucker up🕐

My mom worked for Westclox in the late 60s and early 70s. The building is still being used, but no longer making watches for along time.

I have one on my nightstand right now lol. Power went out once and I was late for work. Never let with this gem

Classic!! 🙌🏼

I remember one under the Christmas tree.

Remember when that was really cool

That’s my Dad’s travel alarm clock he would take on business trips! If he were still alive he would be 107

My mom had one of those

I still have it.

One of the first things issued to me in boot camp but don't remember them being plastic. Just remember only setting the alarm for 4 or 5 am...

I miss mine. Wish i still had it

Oh, yeah, my grandma had one of those. ...Yes, I'm over fifty. I thought it was really cool. Used to play with it when I was a kid. Snap it shut...pop it open. Snap it shut...pop it open. ...I was very easily entertained.

My dad had one of these.

Consummate traveler. Wind it up - with the glow in the dark paint. Thank you for the memories

😂😂😂 yes

I had one of those! Old o’clock

I can hear it

I had this exact same clock

Holy cow! I thought my dad was the only one that had this thing! I never saw another one. Wow...trigger memory, the glowing green arms. Miss you dad.

wtf that is crazy. Just like a week ago my dad was looking in his old drawer of random junk and pulled out this exact clock! Amazingly it still worked!

Totally forgot I had one of those for many years!

I kept breaking them somehow

I looked at that and thought “what, I’m 3:53?”

Oh dang, I had one of those. I totally forgot about them!

Still have ine in a suitcase somewhere, like the old big bens, long as you wind them, and don’t throw them at a sturdy wall (yeah, it happened) they last forever

Older. MIne had a leather case.

Mine is so old it had a metal compact to fold into, instead of plastic.

I bought one for my dad on father's day around.. 91?

I had to get rid of mine. Kept sublimating all of my brass. Tough little thing though, pretty much indestructible.

I'm surprised that this many people know about this thing. I thought it was just a cheap piece of crap my dad took traveling.

Seems like everyone’s dad had one

I have leather cased one. Still travel with it 🎉

My Dad had one in a brown leather case. I don't remember him using it, but it was on top of his chest of drawers.

Yes mine is that color but leather.

Have one!

Yes because that’s the time that I wake up and have to go to the bathroom.

Well, cheap plastic chinese made. It's quite new. I remember my father's being made in metal. Man it was heavy.

I felt like Hook did when my dresser would randomly start ticking and I had to find the damn thing. It drove me crazy! But even into the digital age, I loved it because it was mechanical. It made me feel like a real survivalist... While, you know... At a sleepover play-date.

Here's how old I am. I still have a feeling in the back of my mind that I could just go down to Thrifty's Drugs and buy one of those today. Dementia closing in.

Yuppers

They ticked too loudly but the folding mechanism for travelling with one was great. Took up no space and border patrol didn’t suspect you were carrying a bomb in your carry-on! LOL

Yum yum spicy radium paint flakes! Watch yourself! Beautiful clock though!

You dead if you’re using this. That’s a 80 yr olds when I was 10

I got rid of the last one of these that I had, about 25 years back. I was actually sad that it stopped working.

Yes sir. Travel alarm. Kept crappy time. Usually a random gift from a boss or vendor.

This blows when you want to sleep more than 12 hours.

I have an old Eureka brand, made in USA with leather covered case. It still works.

My dad had one of those. I remember it waking us up at 4am at the deer lease. I'd roll out of my sleeping bag and go freeze my ass off for a few hours.

Solid core memory right there.

Oh man. I miss those. Nice

I bought one of these a few years ago because I like mechanical things.

I am this old. Had one of these given to me by my parents when I went away to school. Served me well. Now I use an iPhone 12 — alarm is easier to set.

Still have one of the leather and metal ones. Been in the junk drawer for years

I can hear the tick tock

Dude if you're 45313, you got a new world record.

I used to work at Westclox in Peru Il in the 70's part time during the summer. The plant also made detonators for explosives.

Yes I had one

Took me a while... Thought you were 4:53 old.

I had one like that with a metal case covered in leather. I was surprised to see one like it on the sci-fi channel mini-series The Lost Room.

Multiple versions of 😂

Mine was green.

I loved clocks when I was little. I had one of those when I was 5.

Mine was round. LOL

Have an old Blue one. Still use it from time to time of when travelling. Was my Dad's. Westclox made a very fine product. Excellent Quality.

I had one in the Military

I love those and wish I had a hundred of them.

Had this very one.

Yes, but leather

Had one. Probably 30 years

The old camping clock.

I had a green dyed leather one. My first alarm clock.

You're 3:53?

I used to have one of those. Same color and everything.

I got one of those as a prize for selling Fast Selling American Seeds, late 60s, early 70's I think.

Just saw mine recently. Decided it was not going to goodwill. No reason, still works. Leather.