The 2H09 and 2H09-A  Stewardess

2H09 came with painted or all-chrome case (above left). 2H09-A has a special gold and beige color scheme and special dial (above right).  Interesting is that the G.E. companion to the 2H09-A seems to be a similarly-colored 2H08 Garcon.

This is my favorite kitchen clock in the line.  The main thing to watch out for is pitting in the chrome.  The chome was plated over copper-clad pot metal and if they got damp and that pot metals started to tarnish, there's no stopping it.  It's extremely hard to restore this kind of damage so go out of your way to find a good one and don't keep it in your basement.
 
 
Production of this model was suspended due to the War and never resumed.
back to the War Yearsto the 2H10 Domestic

 

The clock above on the left is a near-exact reproduction of our little Stewardess in chrome.  It's a direct steal right down to the size and dial.  The main differences are: no reset signal or hole for one, quartz movement, no pendant set knob (that's a knob that hangs below the clock if you didn't guess) so you have to take clock off the wall to set the time and paper dial bearing the name of the "manuacturer".  How can anyone put their name on a clock that's just an inferior copy of someone else's work?  Oh, yeah--the new clock costs five times more than the original selling price of the Stewardess but I think with inflation, that's a bargain unless you consider the quartz "movement" will break in a year or two.  The clock on the right is a real Stewardess in green.