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SZR.02
Grandfather clock
A true Provençal longcase clock, built in three parts, with a guitar-shaped trunk. We widened the moon phase dial, but the clock stays slim and well proportioned.
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 214 cm · width 46 cm · depth 28 cm · weight 60 kg
- Wood
- Solid American tulipwood; curved parts handmade in plywood veneered with Tanganyika
- Finish
- Semi-gloss walnut, water-based with a nitro top coat
- 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 every quarter hour
- Dial
- Widened moon phase dial by the German firm Jaeckle
- Pendulum
- Long lyre pendulum with a clear, engraved Bohemian crystal disc, one second per swing; brass weights by Jaeckle
- Other
- Three doors (dial, winding, base); hand-bevelled glass; the hood slides forward like a drawer
How it is made
The guitar-shaped trunk comes from the large pendulum clocks that French families built at home, when clocks looked like musical instruments. We make it in solid American tulipwood; the curved parts we shape by hand from plywood veneered with Tanganyika. The French design keeps it slim, light and well proportioned.
It has three doors: one for the dial, one in the middle for winding and one low down in the base. Giovanni Casella bevels the glass by hand all the way round. Our Stefano finishes the case with water-based coats and a semi-gloss walnut nitro top coat. The hood slides forward: this is how we fit the movement, how you can show it, and how we finish the inside properly too.
The Kieninger movement plays the Westminster chime every quarter hour. The moon on the dial moves one click a day through new, waxing, full and waning: in the past, knowing when the next full moon was due meant you could travel at night. The pendulum has a clear, engraved Bohemian crystal disc and is just long enough for each swing to last one second. It is wound by pulling the chains, and one winding lasts almost a week.
