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SZR.32
Grandfather clock
True Dutch style, simple and rich at once: Italian walnut burl, solid wood doors and 5 mm bevelled glass. The hood slides forward like a drawer and puts the whole movement on show.
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 221 cm · width 56 cm · depth 32 cm · weight 90 kg
- Wood
- Genuine Italian walnut burl on base, hood and sides; doors in solid American tulipwood
- Finish
- Semi-gloss medium walnut, nitro with a catalysed top coat, water-based; burl bleached and treated against yellowing
- Movement
- German Kieninger mechanical movement in brass; 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
- 5 mm hand-bevelled glass; adjustable gilt hinges; lock and key; the hood slides forward like a drawer
How it is made
It is one of the models from our early days, when clocks were still a small part of our work. Over the years we made it wider, taller and larger, so that it would suit any home, with or without Dutch furniture. Genuine Italian walnut burl covers the base, the hood and the sides, carefully laid along the whole case.
The doors are not MDF, which could never be finished properly on the edge, but solid American tulipwood, chosen without restless grain and with 45° cuts that stop the wood from moving. The 5 mm glass is bevelled by hand all round by Giovanni Casella, master glazier in Cerea. Every part is finished separately and only then assembled: first we bleach the burl and apply the anti-yellowing treatment, then the semi-gloss medium walnut, all water-based.
The hood is a small cabinet of its own, screwed to the back panel: it slides forward like a drawer, so the movement is always within reach. The gilt hinges are adjustable, to set the doors right if heat and humidity make them move, and there is a lock with a key. The Kieninger movement plays the Westminster chime every quarter hour and can stay silent at night.
