I can't take much credit for the build as it was an Emperor kit. My FIL used to make clock kits as a hobby many years ago. Last year we helped them clean out their cluttered garage and I found the still unopened boxes for this Emperor kit. He did not remember when he bought the kit, but the date on the drawings was 1978. It turned out fairly well, but there was some frustrating parts of the build. It was also a little disappointing that much of the body was made of narrow strips ~2" wide glued together instead of solid wide panels and also the fact that sap wood was present on the exterior of the build, certainly not something any of us would permit if building one. The movement is a high quality West German made triple chime triple weight movement, though all it says is Emperor.