At the.time of the Russo-Japanese struggle the clock, together with other valuables was taken from Port Arthur to Harbin for safety#Following the Russian revolution, the clock, like so many other articles disappeared from view. This was early in 1918. Later it was stumbled upon in Harbin, in an old furniture shop, by a Russian officer who bought it for 25 Czarist roubles. It was then placed in the building which housed the board of directors of the Chinese Eastern Railway.
However, the pendulum and other parts were missing and it was motionless. Thus it stayed until 192! when it was repaired by a Russian watchmaker.
After the transfer of the Chinese Eastern Railway to the Changchun regime it passed over with other property to what is now known as the North Manchurian Railways.
There it now stands in the Yamato Harbin, at one time a gift from Queen Victoria of England to the Empress Chin of China, a symbol that while some empires crumble others continue more mighty than before.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.