The dial has Chinese writing on it that reads Shanghai China read from right to left.

The hands glow in the dark, but the green dots on the dial do not. This has been fixed as seen later in this gallery

The paint is nearly perfect and has been cleaned, polished and waxed.

The chrome plating on most of these types of clocks from China is not very good.

The clock is quite thin. The ringers are quite loud.

Most glow in the dark paint that is radioactive will last about 30 years. This clock has new glow in the dark paint applied, but is not radioactive. As a result, it may last only 10 years. The picture was taken in a dark room with a handfull of ambient light sources. The brightness of the photograph has been increased so that the face of the dial can be seen. The glow effect is somewhat exaggerated.

The picture was taken in a very dark room with no ambient lighting. The glow effect is somewhat exaggerated, but would last a number of hours rather than a few minutes as it originally did.

Disassembled clock with all its pieces. Nothing of any real interest other than the crystal is actually made of convex glass. Would be difficult to replace if it ever cracked. Did sand the edges to keep the glass from chipping.

The balance wheel pictured near the bottom was not polished, but the pivots were lubricated. The hair spring is so delicate that if it gets damaged that would pretty much be the end of the clock.

The movement cleaned up nicely. Has been polished and each pivot properly lubricated with a synthetic oil claiming to be suitable for clocks.

There is an abundance of plastic gears in this movement. None of them show any signs of excessive wear.

There is some Chinese writing on the back plate, but could never figure out what it says.

The coiled springs have been cleaned with a toothpick soaked in synthetic oil to keep them from binding during operation. Have tested the clock on three separate occasions and the clock will run for a little over a day and a half. This type of clock is only rated to run for 30 hours before it needs to be wound since its mainspring is 3/8 of an inch wide. 8 day movements have mainsprings that are 3/4 of an inch wide.

The original clock face reacted like plastic shrink-wrap when it came within close proximity to a bright light while charging up the new glow in the dark paint. A new face has been reproduced using a scanned image of the shrunk clock face and has been digitally edited to make it nearly identicial to the original.