A unique clock designed and made in Bath by Gustav Horstmann is to be restored to full working order. Specialist clock restorers Clockworks of London have agreed to help the Museum of Bath at Work put some tick back into the tock. – that’s if £4,000 can be raised to do the job.

Three wall mounted clocks were made – each of a different design- by Gustav Horstmann in the 1860s to demonstrate his heat driven ‘Thermo-automotor’ invention which, among other things, could be used to automatically wind such a clock. The museum holds one of these clocks and the two others are in private hands.

The example at the Museum has been stopped for a while but now there is the opportunity to restore the clock, re-locate it in a more prominent position and more effectively explain its value and importance.

Gustav Horstmann was a well known inventor and clock and watchmaker in 19thcentury Bath and his sons established the Horstmann Gear company and the Horstman Car Company.