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SZR.33
Grandfather clock
Dutch style, Venetian hands: hand-laid Ferrara walnut burl, solid wood doors and 5 mm bevelled glass. Inside, a German Kieninger movement and a moon phase dial.
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
- Hand-laid Ferrara walnut burl on base, hood, sides and doors; doors in solid American tulipwood
- Finish
- Medium walnut, lightly glossy, water-based, with anti-yellowing treatment
- 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
- 5 mm hand-bevelled glass; adjustable gilt hinges; lock and key on both doors; the hood slides forward like a drawer
How it is made
In the 1960s the craft of fine woodwork had faded in the Netherlands, and people who wanted handmade furniture came to the Venetian workshops to find it. This model comes from that story, yet it suits any home, Dutch furniture or not. The burl is the fine, small-figured kind, taken from where the branches leave the trunk. Mrs Ambrosi, with sixty years of experience, lays it by hand with a cutter.
The doors are solid American tulipwood, with 45° cuts that keep the burl from moving over the years. The 5 mm glass is bevelled by hand by Giovanni Casella, master glazier in Cerea. Every part is finished separately, inside and out, in a lightly glossy, water-based medium walnut, and only then assembled.
The hood is a small cabinet of its own: it slides forward like a drawer, so the movement is always within reach. 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.
