{"id":5538,"date":"2019-01-08T20:49:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T18:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2019-01-08T20:49:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T18:49:34","slug":"pocket-watch-from-thisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/08\/pocket-watch-from-thisted\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocket watch from Thisted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/jp_sorensen_thisted-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/jp_sorensen_thisted.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/jp_sorensen_thisted-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you drive north from Struer for about an hour, you get to a town about the same size called Thisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 15th of June, 1871, a man names J\u00f8rgen Peder S\u00f8rensen setup up shop as a clockmaker &nbsp;on Store Torv in Thisted. He made and repaired watches and clocks (including the town church&#8217;s clock) until, in 1925, he died and the business passed on to his son,&nbsp;Rasmus Frederik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just spent most of the evenings in the past week getting this key-wound pocket watch, made in Thisted by J.P. S\u00f8rensen, up and running again. It was in quite a mess when I got it. Years of congealed oil and dirt had seized the movement, the mainspring had come off the arbor, so it couldn&#8217;t be wound, and one of the pins was missing from the dial. So, it had to be completely stripped down and cleaned, oiled and reassembled. I also had to turn a new pin for the dial on the lathe and epoxy it in place. (Solder is a bad idea on an old watch face &#8211; the heat can ruin the enamel).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, apart from the missing second hand (I&#8217;ll put one on there when I find one that matches and fits), it&#8217;s up and running again &#8211; and keeping time well enough that I haven&#8217;t been late for a meeting for a couple of days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you drive north from Struer for about an hour, you get to a town about the same size called Thisted. On the 15th of June, 1871, a man names J\u00f8rgen Peder S\u00f8rensen setup up shop as a clockmaker &nbsp;on Store Torv in Thisted. He made and repaired watches and clocks (including the town church&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-watches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-1rk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5540,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}