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SAR.04
Corner grandfather clock
Our best-known corner clock, and our favourite. Italian taste, curved glass, a moon phase, a long door with a lock and a burl panel in the base.
A clock that is yours alone. Wood, finish, colour and melody: we start from this model and finish it together, the way you want it.
- Dimensions
- Height 202 cm · width 43 cm · depth 31 cm · weight 60 kg
- Wood
- Solid American tulipwood; small curved panel veneered in Alpi burl; Fantoni MDF back
- Finish
- Water-based medium walnut with a semi-gloss nitrocellulose clear coat
- Movement
- German Kieninger mechanical movement in brass; weekly chain winding (up to 10 days), each weight drops about 12 cm a day; switchable night silencer from 10 pm to 7:15 am; hands can also be turned anticlockwise
- Chime
- Westminster every quarter hour
- Dial
- Moon phase dial by Jaeckle; thick signed hands
- Pendulum
- Brass lyre pendulum and brass weights by Jaeckle
- Other
- Long door with lock; 5 mm curved glass, bent in the kiln by Giovanni Casella
How it is made
Over the years we have put a lot into it, and it is also the model people choose most. It is simple, graceful and rich at once. The case is solid American tulipwood, with a small curved panel veneered in Alpi burl; the back is Fantoni MDF.
The long door has a lock. Giovanni Casella curves the 5 mm glass himself, in his kiln. Stefano applies the water-based medium walnut finish, with a semi-gloss nitrocellulose clear coat.
The German Kieninger movement in brass plays the Westminster chime every quarter hour and can stay silent at night. The moon phase dial, the lyre pendulum and the brass weights are by the German firm Jaeckle; the hands are thick and signed. Each day the moon moves from left to right and shows its four phases: in the past, knowing when the next full moon was due helped people plan journeys by night. It is wound once a week by pulling the chains, and one winding lasts up to 10 days.
