Vintage Sony 8FC-69WA AM/FM Digimatic Flip Clock Radio
 

Picked this one up for free, untested. Gave it a cleaning, polishing, some feed 'n wax on the wood, turned it on and it works. It is in real nice condition, no cracks or faults on the case. I believe this was made in late 1960's to early 1970's.
Made in Japan. :smoke:

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These are pretty neat. I see that this one is old enough to use the terms kilocycles and megacycles for the tuner, sweet. My mom bought a flip-clock radio new, took it back because she couldn't stand the sound of the numbers flipping every minute. I have an oddball alarm clock that uses a Telechron movement and mechanical shutters to form the digits. I think the Telechron rotor is shot though, the numbers won't advance on their own.

The clock movements were made by Copal. They have motors similar to Telechron, where the grease hardens up after a while. :sigh:
The Sony is a great example of a Higher end clock radio. The radio was around $65.00 USD, back then.

Looks brand new! I have a couple of similar Sonys, but not in as good shape as that one.

When I was a kid I used to have one of those with the ultraviolet fluorescent light for the clock numerals. Unfortunately the motor was frozen so it got trashed.

Did Copal only make flip clocks ?

Did a lot of clocks on these when I was at Sony. The later black
light models ICFC660 & 770 were a lot more trouble. They had
drum clocks, dont remember who made em. Spent 1/3 the
day doing clock jobs, another 1/3 doing TC110 cassette decks &
the rest doing odds & ends. They even had a special price for clock
jobs out of warranty. Zenith also had a ton of clock problems with
the circle-o-sound ( made by Gold Star ) before they went digital.
The clocks IIRC were a tape that ran on a gear. There was a
bulletin for replacing them using shims to be sure the clocks
werent twisted causing them to bind up.

73 Zeno:smoke:

Man, what a beauty.

That is from the period where pride was put into these things. Now, it is all mass produced plastic junk.

Nice catch.

I call it BPC - Black Plastic Crap.