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SVR.88
Curio cabinet clock
A pendulum clock inside a Chippendale-style curio cabinet. Book-matched rosewood, pale maple shell inlay, two side doors with shelves and six drawers.
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 204 cm · width 84 cm · depth 32 cm · weight 90 kg
- Wood
- MDF veneered in book-matched rosewood; pale maple shell inlay; plywood backs
- Finish
- Semi-transparent matt polyester, inside and out
- Movement
- German Kieninger mechanical movement in brass; chain winding lasting almost a week; switchable night silencer from 10 pm to 7:15 am
- Chime
- Westminster on bells every quarter hour
- Dial
- Moon phase dial
- Pendulum
- Brass lyre pendulum and weights by Jaeckle
- Other
- Two side doors with 4 shelves; 6 drawers; 3 locks; curved hand-bevelled central glass; base with 4 legs comes apart for transport
How it is made
It blends Chippendale and French style. The rosewood veneer is book-matched left and right, top and bottom, and framed by a shell inlay in pale maple. Gianni Artem lays the veneer by hand.
On each side of the pendulum is a door with shelves, four in all, and below are six drawers. Every door has its own lock. The curved central glass is bevelled by hand by Giovanni Casella. Each part is finished separately, inside and out, in a semi-transparent matt polyester that brings light to the wood.
The base with its four legs travels separately from the upper cabinet. The Kieninger movement plays the Westminster chime on bells every quarter hour, has a moon phase dial and is wound by pulling the chains, and one winding lasts almost a week. Open the door and the whole movement is in view.
