{"id":804,"date":"2015-03-26T15:41:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T15:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/materialistic-spiders.flywheelsites.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2015-03-26T15:41:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T15:41:49","slug":"gillett-bland-arts-centre-christchurch-new-zealand-clock-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gillettjohnston.co.uk\/gillett-bland-arts-centre-christchurch-new-zealand-clock-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillett & Bland Arts Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand Clock Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gillett & Bland Clock Arts Centre<\/p><\/div>\n

Gillett & Bland Arts\u00a0Center, Christchurch, New Zealand Clock Restoration<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1877 Gillett & Bland received an order from a H. Kohn and Co of 93 Leadenhall Street, London to supply a clock & Bell to be packaged up and delivered to any of the docks in London for transportation to New Zealand. \u00a0The count wheel to be inscribed with B. Petersen, Christchurch on it.<\/p>\n

A lot of clocks that were made by Gillett’s were actually branded with the buyers name at their request to make the clock look like it had been made by them. \u00a0William Gillett before he started Gillett & Bland made his living making clocks for the trade and for many years “his principle customers were Sir John Bennett of Cheapside and of wide notoriety and the late Mr Benson, of Ludgate Hill” as told in the \u00a0Croydon Advertiser dated 11th October 1879. \u00a0 For many years Gillett’s also made and supplied all Dent’s tower clocks. \u00a0The most notable of the clocks being –<\/p>\n