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SZR.31
Grandfather clock
A clock that takes us to French Brittany. We made it wider and taller to fit a large three-melody Kieninger movement, with cable winding and decorated fittings.
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 236 cm · width 54 cm · depth 32 cm
- Wood
- Solid American tulipwood; curved parts handmade in plywood veneered with Tanganyika
- Finish
- Semi-gloss walnut, water-based with a nitro top coat
- Movement
- Large German Kieninger mechanical movement in mirror-polished brass; weekly cable winding with a crank in the 3 dial holes; switchable automatic hourly change of melody; switchable night silencer from 10 pm to 7:15 am
- Chime
- Three melodies to choose from, on 12 notes, every quarter hour: Westminster, Whittington, St Michael; hours struck on long brass-plated bronze rods
- Dial
- Solid brass, with large applied numerals, moon phase and seconds hand
- Pendulum
- Extra-long brass lyre pendulum with circular engraving on the bob, one second per swing; decorated weights; by Jaeckle
- Other
- Two doors, the centre one guitar-shaped; hand-bevelled glass; two carved curls on top; base with diamond-point raised panel; the hood slides forward like a drawer
How it is made
The base still has its diamond-point raised panel, and at the top two curls carved by hand by Franco recall Brittany. It is solid American tulipwood; the curved parts we shape by hand from plywood veneered with Tanganyika. The French design makes it light, harmonious and imposing all at once.
It has two doors: one for the dial and the guitar-shaped one in the middle, where the pendulum swings slowly with no chains in front of it. Giovanni Casella bevels the glass by hand all the way round. Our Stefano finishes it all 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 it properly inside and out.
The Kieninger movement is large and mirror-polished. It has three chimes on 12 notes, Westminster, Whittington and St Michael, every quarter hour, and strikes the hours on long brass-plated bronze rods; if you wish, it changes melody by itself every hour. It is wound once a week with a crank in the three holes of the dial, because it runs on cables, not chains. The dial is the heavy, old-fashioned kind, in solid brass, with a moon phase, large applied numerals and a seconds hand: each swing of the long pendulum is one second.
