Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Best Seller Sale at www.windwardstore.com


Shop www.windwardstore.com during our Best Seller Sale

Featuring our best selling and most requested products. Every order includes free ground shipping to U S street addresses.

Best Sellers include the entire line of Cape Cod brass weather instruments, Chelsea Shipstrike Clocks, and Tidemaster Moonphase Tide Watches, all with special pricing during this sale event.

Shop www.windwardstore.com today for more details.

Friday, January 01, 2010

Chelsea Clock Sale at windwardstore.com




Shop the After Christmas Sale at Windward Store for special savings on Chelsea Clocks now through January 15, 2010. Every order includes free ground shipping to U S street addresses!

No gimmicks, just select your Chelsea Clock - and enter the promo code: cc in the cart during checkout. The savings will automatically be applied!

The Chelsea Clock sale applies to all Chelsea Clocks -

Shop today!

Tidepieces Motion Tide Clock sale

We are featuring Tidepieces Motion Tide Clocks at special sale pricing - these unique motion tide clocks have been best sellers and very popular.

Prices start at only $119.00, with several models available dependent upon your taste and requirements.

Visit the Tidepieces of bellclocks.com today!

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Chelsea Clock discontinues Timemaster Clocks

You will notice that all Chelsea Timemaster model clocks (military/commercial clocks) are, or will be unavailable for purchase. This is due to Chelsea Clock discontinuing all Timemaster models without notice effective mid-December.

BellClocks has contacted Chelsea's National Sales Director and lodged a complaint that this is a poor business and customer service decision on the part of Chelsea Clock. Unfortunately, given Chelsea's current path of business, we hold little hope of seeing these clocks return.

We note that Chelsea has retained 2 models which are now called the "Patriot" deck clock which are strikingly similar to Timemaster 40099 and 40010 radio room models. We inquired about these models and were told that these will not be made available to dealers - rather, will be sold directly by Chelsea to the public.

One note on the "Patriot" models:
BellClocks was told that these are the same clock as Timemaster - however, Chelsea has refused to answer our 2 primary questions: (1) is the "Patriot" rated to MILSPEC as Timemaster was (2) Does it contain the same U S movement as before?

The refusal on Chelseas part to answer these questions leads us (me) to believe that the "Patriot" likely contains a different (perhaps asian or similar) movement, and that it is NOT MILSPEC rated.

You might be thinking that we (Windward Instruments companies) are just disgruntled regarding this development. While that is an accurate description, it is NOT the reason we take the time to post this information.

Over the past 3 years, at the direction of Anthony LaChapelle and J K Nicolas, Chelsea has treated it's customers (both dealers, and retail customers) with disrepect and disregard. Chelsea has been actively sourcing in Asia for some time for movements and other parts.

At this point Chelsea is doing away with (in our opinion) one of it's traditional lines which has helped define Chelsea throughout it's history.

It's not being disgruntled - so much as both terribly disappointed, and very concerned.

Thank you for your attention.

Best,
Mike Ratican
Business Director
Windward Instruments

D&D Tendency Barometers on sale now!

D&D Tendency Barometers - on sale now with low flat rate shipping to U. S. locations.

The A053 Model combines all of the best features of the Tendency Barometers and is the top of the line. It functionally operates as any other DD Barometer tendency barometers. The beautiful mahogany stained wooden case with curved glass has an aluminum colored brass face plate with a Storm Glass mounted beside the tendency barometer tubes and a hygrometer mounted above the tubes. This is a presentation quality piece perfect for gifting.

Shop http://bellclocks.com today for more information or to purchase.