{"product_id":"bulova-double-eagle-coin-stack-alarm-clock-c-1980s-americana-collection-desk-piece","title":"Bulova \"Double Eagle\" Coin Stack Alarm Clock, c. 1980s Americana Collection Desk Piece","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA short stack of twenty-dollar gold pieces that happens to tell the time. Bulova modeled this desk alarm clock as a pile of Saint-Gaudens double eagles — Liberty striding forward on the tilted top coin, torch raised, dated MCMVII — with the clock face set into the stack below, printed with the coin's reverse: \"United States of America — Twenty Dollars,\" eagle in flight, under raised Roman numerals and diamond-tipped hands. Reeded coin edges ring every layer of the stack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe back tells its own little story: alongside the Bulova Americana Collection model number sits the retailer's sticker of T.R. Miller Co. of Needham, Massachusetts — a corporate awards house — which means this clock almost certainly began life as an executive gift or retirement presentation. Somebody's twenty-five years of service, told in gold-toned minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHistory\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe coin being celebrated here has a claim to being America's most beautiful. In 1907, Theodore Roosevelt personally recruited sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to redesign the nation's coinage, and the resulting twenty-dollar double eagle — Liberty mid-stride at sunrise, first struck in the Roman-numeral year MCMVII — has been the gold standard of American coin design ever since. Gold coins vanished from circulation in 1933, which only deepened the design's mystique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBulova, the great American clock and watch house founded in 1875, leaned into that mystique with its Americana Collection desk pieces of the 1970s and '80s — quartz-movement novelties that put national icons on the executive desk. The coin-stack clock was a natural: wealth, time, and Liberty in one paperweight-sized package, handed out by the corporate gift trade to mark milestones. As Wall Street desk props of the era go, it is the whole aesthetic in three inches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003cthead\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eAttribute\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eDetail\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/thead\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePeriod\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ec. 1980s\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOrigin\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBulova Americana Collection (model B0675); quartz movement, Japan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaker\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBulova; retailer's label of T.R. Miller Co., Needham, Massachusetts\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGold-toned metal and composite, glazed dial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eStyle\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAmericana \/ executive desk novelty\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDimensions\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTo be confirmed (approx. 3\" diameter)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCondition\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFair-to-good vintage condition. Notable spotting and toning to the gilt finish with scattered verdigris, as photographed — the \"aged treasure\" look, disclosed plainly. Alarm and movement untested; battery compartment clean. Sold as a display piece unless tested. Condition Guaranteed.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy It Belongs In Your Home\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery desk deserves one object with a wink, and a stack of gold coins that tells the time is a very good wink. It reads beautifully among leather, brass, and dark wood — study shelf, library table, or the desk of anyone who works in money and keeps a sense of humor about it. And the story lands in one line: Roosevelt's favorite sculptor, America's most beautiful coin, and the corporate gift that turned it into a clock. Time is money; this one commits to the bit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viridian Eclection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47818116497513,"sku":null,"price":66.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/0093\/9369\/files\/IMG_2420.jpg?v=1784617624","url":"https:\/\/viridianeclection.com\/products\/bulova-double-eagle-coin-stack-alarm-clock-c-1980s-americana-collection-desk-piece","provider":"Viridian Eclection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}