He's a really nice guy and was very helpful, so I figured I would give his virtual museum a little plug in here. The clock I got looks almost new, and runs perfectly, so it obviously got little use over the years.
Performance Chess Clocks- a virtual chess clock museum
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Yes, yours looks as nice as mine, and it doesn't say MOM above the knight, which makes it probably made in the early 60's. Mine also looks very lightly used, the wood is flawless, even the finish on it is very nice and shiny. It looks very nice next to my new Dubrovnik set. I plan to get some photos up soon.
Also, don't panic when you track your package, it gets to NJ customs, and seems to be delayed forever. The NJ customs has a reputation of being very slow, just be patient, and eventually your tracking will show progress.
Very cool looking clocks.
I bought the same not so long ago in Bern, Switzerland. It has some similarities with the Solora.
The earliest MOM clocks were manufactured in Hungary, but many of the later ones were made in Germany. Sometimes you can still find stickers on the bottom of the clock showing the country of manufacture. Also the Omikron and Danuvia clocks are basically the same as the MOM's, just made under license at other factories. You have a nice collection going there yourself. I especially like the older BHB and the Looping clocks, and of course the Solara's are nice too.
Thanks. I purchased both loops clocks recently. I even didn't know about them until I found one in a shop for 65 sfr. The other one I purchased online for even less money. Also both Solora clocks I found in flea markets (for something like 15 or 30 swiss francs, whichis of courselow for such clocks).
When I purchased the first I didn't know that they are very collectable.
I am often surprised for the kind of stuff you can found in flea markets. I purchased once a signed copy of one of Alekhine's books, a special edition with only 50 copies. My was number 9.
Do you collect only clocks?
I have many chess sets, though most are reproductions and not originals. I have a small wooden Lardy, a vintage Cavalier plastic set, and a Gallant Knight set probably from the 50's that I inherited from my grandfather. All 3 of those sets are old but in pretty good condition. I have a very nice House of Staunton Canterbury set, one of their Zagreb gilded sets, a Mikhail Tal reproduction set from Royal Chess Mall that you can see him playing with on the cover of his My Life and Games book. I have reproduction German Knubble men, a set from Costa Rica, a crushed stone and resin set from Mexico, a Russian Matryoshka doll tourist set, a set of Isle of Lewis men I got years ago from USCF and was never too happy with. This past summer i got out my tiny paint brushes and enhanced the highlighting and shading on both colors, then sprayed them with a couple layers of gloss shellac to make it look more like the polished walrus ivory they were carved from. Numerous chess boards, chess boxes, etc. I still have my barely used Saitek digital clock in perfect working order I got back in the 90's, and my most modern clock is one of the DGT 3000 Limited Edition clocks with the faux wood grain. There is much more but this post is getting too long lol.
Great! I think I don’t have any reproduction apart of an Isle of Lewis-set! I can thought appreciate the beauty of some of these reproductions, as to purchase the original sets would be expensive.
I will have soon to decide what to do with my collection, as I don’t have space at home to display them! ( I have too many books.) I really would like to work with my collection, perhaps writing a book on the topic. Anyway, it is quite sad to have many nice chess items and to store most of them in boxes.
I will certainly reduce the collection, as I have too many similar sets. This means, I will probably sell part of the collection in the near future.
I suggest that before you sell anything, take a lot of photographs of everything, and also make sure to take the time to really research the availability of any of the items, as you may experience sellers regret. I myself still have items in storage, safe and sound of course, but once in a while I have an urge to look at a book only to realize its miles away in storage. And selling my books??? No, they can get them after I die.
Yes, before I sell anything I will certainly make pictures, perhaps for a website or a book. I will begin selling things that I have double, like Solora clock or Looping clock, and many other clocks (also digitsl), many European chess sets like Staunton, Regency or Vienna coffe house sets. I will certain sell many of my chess books, like all Edition Olms reprints, as I got them for free. As I go regularly to flea markets I often purchased books that I already have, but they are too cheap to resist, as tournament books or classics like a Nimzovitsch’s works.
Hi , How much would you want for a Solora clock , Please pm 
I know the feeling. I saw my Petroff defense book by Yusupov selling for $300 on eBay, my brother's worn copy of The Soviet Chess Conveyor for $700, things like that. I have all 3 of the large hardcover Laszlo Polgar books, but I also have the paperback Chess, and a Kindle version as well. I have a Saitek Kasparov chess computer I got in the 80's, and on and on. And still I go online and browse at all the things I still want. I really want a Ceska Klubovka set, a nice Chavet set, some of the art deco sets like Bauhaus, Hermann Ohme, Russian Poni set, etc. I don't think I'll ever stop collecting, I just need to manage my pile better.
Right now I am not selling, as I have first to sort out what to sell, price, and how to sell (ebay, or otherwise).
I will certainly let you know here in the forum when I begin to sell . I sold already some few things to people living in Switzerland.
I'm rather jealous you can just go to a local flea market and find things like that. The US doesn't have such an extensive chess history as in Europe. If I were to travel there, I would end up paying a fortune in duty taxes on all the chess things I would buy when I went home. Better to buy a bit at a time.
I go extremely often to flea markets etc. Often I don’t find anything interesting.
Once in a big antiques market I didn’t find anything, but in a shop in the same city I asked the owner about chess items. First he said no, but then he remembered somebody hidden somewhere. It was this incredible set
Very rare to find something like this, as WMF is a famous German company and known for the quality of the products.
That is a beautiful set. I googled them and they make very high-end expensive items. Do you know what metals are used in your set? They apparently make a lot of silver items, so it could turn out to be quite valuable. That is a terrific find. No flea markets around here will have anything like that.
Here is a photo my brother took of my clock next to a few of my Dubrovnik pieces. 
I thought I answered your question, but it seems I didn’t.
the WMF set is not silver, but silver-plated. Here a similar set sold in Christie’s
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5390644
Hi Guys, last month I purchased a vintage MOM chess clock on ebay. In the course of making the purchase I struck up a conversation with the seller, Igor, and he related that he also has this virtual chess clock museum. Lots of pictures and information on a variety of vintage clocks. Here is the link to his site: Performance Chess Clocks (chess-clocks.at) If you are interested in what he has to offer, his eBay user name is igiva_9. A quick search will take you to his store. Hope you all enjoy this site, and if you are shopping check with Igor for what is available.