What time is it?

The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 26th of March is “numbers”, and by that it cannot be a mixture of letters and numbers. I considered this for a while, and looked through many of my lettering books from the 1970s and 1980s for nice numbers but found nothing. It was only as I was winding one of my many clocks (admittedly one with roman numerals) that I suddenly thought of the numerals on a clock face. So, this stylised number five comes from the 1920s Gunter Art Deco mantle clock that sits in my dining room. The number and its surrounds are one piece of silver plated metal that have been impressed into the maple face. The grooves you can see in the metal are from a century of the hands of the clock turning. Of all the clocks that I own, this one is the least problematic and most reliable. I have had it for twenty five years now, and I have never had to have it looked at or repaired and it keeps time very well. I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.

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