Height: 38 inches Width: 14.5 inches Depth: 5.75 inches

The New York Standard Watch Co. is not noted for high quality watches, but among clock collectors, the company's clock product is cherished for being well finished and nicely engineered timepieces.

The design concept employed in these clocks was the invention of Sigismund Fischer, who was granted a patent in 1895. Production of the clocks began the following year.

Fischer's patent is based on the Hipp toggle principle. Unlike a conventional clock escapement, the hands are driven directly through linkage with the pendulum. The design allows the pendulum to be impulsed only when its motion decreases enough to engage a toggle link that closes an electrical circuit to the propelling electromagnets.

Height: 38.25 inches Width: 17.75 inches Depth: 6.25 inches

The design is efficient, has few moving parts, and a minimal gear train to move the hands. Too, the Hipp toggle principle provides that a malfunctioning of weak battery will not maintain a closed circuit condition further draining the battery, which is a weakness of many early battery clock designs based on ordinary clock escapement adapted to electric winding. The long-drop schoolhouse style clock appears to have a 3/4 second (80 beat) movement, but 1/2 second (120 beat) and seconds beating (60 beat) movements were also produced. In 1902, the New York Standard Watch Company was sold to the Keystone Watch Case Company, and the clock product line was abandoned.