![]() The VisualTek clock is now for sale from the same seller! If you can find one of the mahogany touch sensor Duel Timers you will like it better than the brass toggle switch model. I don’t recall exactly what she said but health reasons were certainly implied. The person that answered the phone said he wouldn’t be making them anymore. That’s because I called the company when I noticed that the touch sensor models were out of stock on the HOS website around that time. ![]() I’m not sure why he stopped but I heard that he had gotten fatally ill. He had trouble keeping up with demand at times. They were all hand made by a man in New England. I love it up until recently when I bought my DGT 2500, my DT was my easiest of my five digital clocks to set for any time control. Mine is a special one in Ash Wood it has the plastic buttons. Sadly the company went out of business before I could purchase one. Just before they went out of business circa 2012, Duel Timer came out with a touch sensor version in mahogany it was absolutely beautiful. It was an early model and doesn’t have all the settings of the later versions. No, I think the one with brass is more of a toggle switch, a lever so that one side is up while the other is down. ![]() What's going on? Is this related to the chip shortage or something? I'm ready to throw my money at somebody for a nice chess clock, but there don't seem to be any. And even the nice ones that are supposedly being made like VTek or Chronos have limited (or no) inventory. Clearly people want them, given that none of the old ones are being offered for sale. I would think there is money to be made if somebody offers a new luxury chess clock. There is one Duel Timer (without the brass buttons that I would want) listed for $250, and there's one Garde hybrid digital/analog without box listed for $1000. The high-end "not wooden" clocks like VisualTek are completely out of stock, and while it's possible to find a few Chronos clocks on the "new" market, the colors available are very limited (I'm out of luck if I want the gunmetal). What's going on with the nice chess clocks? I would love a nice, wood digital chess clock, but the Duel Timer seems no longer to be made, the Garde digital clocks seem unavailable anywhere, etc.
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