<img width="640" height="501" src="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Zephyr-clock-700x548.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Zephyr-clock-700x548.jpg 700w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Zephyr-clock-300x235.jpg 300w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Zephyr-clock-170x133.jpg 170w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Zephyr-clock.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="25813" data-permalink="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2017/07/27/moderne-mystery/zephyr-clock/" data-orig-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Zephyr-clock.jpg" data-orig-size="1024,801" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Zephyr clock" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Zephyr-clock-300x235.jpg" data-large-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Zephyr-clock-700x548.jpg" />It is not very often that a clock’s origins provide as much mystery as that of the Zephyr clock. Designed during the mid-30s, it was originally attributed to Kem Weber, a German émigré designer who created several iconic designs of the Streamline Moderne style until evidence arose via a 1938 Lawson Time brochure that Weber...
