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SZR.15
Grandfather clock
The Venetian country style of simple, honest families, in a wood typical of northern Europe: solid light Balkan oak with a close grain. Simple work, finished with care in every detail.
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 48 cm · depth 32 cm · weight 70 kg
- Wood
- Solid light Balkan oak with a close grain, in 110 pieces; plain raised panels in veneered MDF
- Finish
- Fairly matt; evens out the grain and lightens the darker parts a little
- 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 by the German firm Jaeckle
- Pendulum
- Brass lyre pendulum and brass weights by Jaeckle
- Other
- “Arte povera” work, with plain rather than diamond-cut panels; half-moon moulding around glass and doors; wide arch on the door; 5 mm hand-bevelled glass, fixed with strips and screws
How it is made
It is made in the Venetian “arte povera” tradition, in genuine solid Balkan oak chosen with great care. The raised panels are not diamond-cut but plain, in veneered MDF: they give the case cleaner lines and give more prominence to the movement. A half-moon moulding runs around the glass and the doors, and each of the 110 pieces of wood that make it up has its own margin to move.
We gave the door a very wide arch to show off the moon phase. The fairly matt finish is by our Stefano: it evens out and harmonises the grain and lightens the darker parts a little, so the clock suits homes in Italy and abroad, where oak is much loved. The 5 mm glass is bevelled by hand on every edge by master glazier Giovanni Casella, and we fix it with strips and screws, as tradition has it.
The moon phase dial is a faithful copy of the old ones, which were more than astronomy: they were a service. Between one inn and the next, one change of horses and the next village, they told travellers when they could ride at night by the light of the moon. The Kieninger movement plays the Westminster chime every quarter hour, can stay silent at night and is wound once a week by pulling the chains.
