Hickory Dickory Dock

Bill Williams knows to keep up his time well. He   never loses track of his time. So what better   introduction could you give a man who has gone ahead collecting clocks.  Williams has been a former school teacher at North Boys high School  so time and punctuality might have been surely a top card for him. No wonder he has this  close affiliation to clocks. He has a good collection of 3,021 clocks .He has smashed the earlier record for the largest collection of clocks which counted to a mere 1900.

They are worth anything from 50 cents to thousands of dollars. His collection includes everything from a hand-painted Victorian antique clock to a 12-centimetre-tall dachshund clock he picked up in Himatangi. The huge  collection  has been the result of  the effort Williams has been doing for  over 20 years since 1988.It all began when he chipped into a second  hand  store in Auckland and was bowled over by a nice mantel clock. That was when his love for clocks began and from then he has been flirting with his prized possession. He is not sure what is there in clocks   that drives him so crazy about them. With his penchant for clocks he has  been accumulating  on an average 10  clocks a month.

Williams  fanatics for clocks was not welcomed by his wife Kathy who got fed up of seeing so many hundreds of time pieces filling their home. She finally showed the doors  to William’s passion  and so with no option he set up a museum in Colyton ‘s former church to   display his first love rather prominently. And   now Kathy had to really limit herself  as she too did not have much stand to voice her disinterest on the subject. She   proved she is a real better half by collecting more than 1000 mermaid ornaments .So Kathy cannot afford to complain too much. Bravo   to the   Husband wife duo for the collection spree they are in to. Every Saturday Mr. Williams winds up 150 of his museum clocks to varying times so the chimes go off at irregular intervals for visitors.   

The Largest collection of clocks counted to 3021 and was set by Bill Williams at Colyton, New Zealand on January 5, 2011.