A valve timing control device includes a driving side rotational member synchronously rotatable with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, a driven side rotational member synchronously rotatable with a camshaft that controls an opening and closing operation of valves of the internal combustion engine, a retarded angle chamber, an advanced angle chamber, a fluid supply and discharge mechanism, a lock mechanism for locking the relative rotational phase at a predetermined lock phase, a phase displacement restriction mechanism switching the relative rotational phase between a restricted state and an unrestricted state, the phase displacement restriction mechanism includes a recess portion and an insertion member so as to achieve the restricted state and the unrestricted state, and a retention mechanism for retaining the phase displacement restriction mechanism in the unrestricted state in which the insertion member is retracted from the recess portion.

 
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