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SZR.01
Grandfather clock
Viennese Rococo without the angels: solid French lime wood, carved by hand and stained walnut, with a moon phase dial. A rich clock that stays discreet, at home even in a room that is not classical.
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 208 cm · width 67 cm · depth 34 cm
- Wood
- Solid French lime wood, 12-14 cm thick; frame in bent Tanganyika and maple; MDF back
- Finish
- Semi-gloss medium walnut stain, water-based
- Movement
- German Kieninger mechanical movement in brass; weekly chain winding (up to 10 days); switchable night silencer from 10 pm to 7:15 am
- Chime
- Westminster every quarter hour
- Dial
- Moon phase dial; hands of our own design, signed
- Pendulum
- Brass lyre pendulum and weights by Jaeckle
- Other
- 5 mm dial glass bevelled by Giovanni Casella; below, blown glass with small applied leaves and screwed-on strips
How it is made
It is one of the workshop's very first models, born from a photo of a clock in Vienna, and it is Viennese Rococo in its most restrained form: all the carving, but no angels. The case is solid French lime wood, 12 to 14 cm thick. We choose the wood and let it season for up to ten years, because it dries naturally at one centimetre a year. The frame is bent Tanganyika and maple and the back is MDF, so the carving can move without shifting the movement.
We rough out each piece on a manual pantograph, checking the cutters step by step. Then Franco Franzoso of Rovigo carves it by hand. The carved parts are worked separately and fitted after finishing, so every detail stays clean. Stefano Gobetti sands all the solid wood by hand and stains it a semi-gloss medium walnut, a full-bodied stain that protects it from damp; all stains and varnishes are water-based.
The movement is a German Kieninger in brass and plays the Westminster chime every quarter hour. The moon on the dial moves one step a day and shows its position in the sky. The hands are our own design, signed. It is wound once a week by pulling the chains, and it can stay silent at night.
