Gambit Prim - Chess set - Beech wood

The Gambit clock is a design by Chronotechna in Czechoslovakia. Chronotechna was founded after the communists had seized power in Czechoslovakia.

Around 1960 Chronotechna produced a clock with a bakelite case (based on the Soviet model). At the same time, that is in 1960, UMF Ruhla introduced the famous Gardé at the Chess Olympiad in Leipzig, which proved to be a success story. The development of the Gambit clock was Chronotechna's response to that. It is sometimes said that the Gambit is a blatant copy of the Gardé, but this cannot be entirely true, since the two clocks share some design features (especially the large rectangular case), but are also quite different from each other. For some reason, however, the Gambit clock was not as readily accepted by players as the East German Gardé.

The production of the Gambit clock began already in the early 1960s, when the clock initially appeared under the name Chronotechna, later under the name Prim. After 1962 the name Prim was replaced by Jenger.

The clock came back into fashion after 1970, but by that time only a few pieces remained, making it a coveted collector's item that was mainly found in museums from the mid-1970s onward.

The size of the clock is 11 cm high, 21 cm wide, 5.5 cm deep; its operation is perfect.

The proceeds are intended to support the mentoring of chess talent at a club.