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SLR.08
Lacquered grandfather clock
Viennese Rococo in solid French lime wood, carved by hand and lacquered in white crackle with real gold leaf. Seven angels, four small feet 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 243 cm · width 79 cm · depth 35 cm · weight 90 kg
- Wood
- Solid French lime wood, up to 12-14 cm thick; frame in bent Tanganyika and maple; MDF back
- Finish
- White crackle Venetian lacquer with polychrome touches; real gold leaf; matt acrylic clear coat
- 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; classic northern European or hand-painted by Paul Merkte; hands of our own design, signed
- Pendulum
- Brass lyre pendulum and weights by Jaeckle
- Other
- Seven carved angels and four small feet; 5 mm dial glass bevelled by Giovanni Casella, blown glass below
How it is made
This is the richest version of a family born in the workshop's early years: the Viennese Rococo that Antonio Altobel began to build from a photo of a clock in Vienna. The first one was low, in walnut and without angels. Then came two angels and the lacquer, the moon phases and the four small feet, then three angels and finally seven.
The case is solid French lime wood, up to 14 cm thick. The wood seasons for up to ten years, one year per centimetre. We rough it out on a manual pantograph, then Franco Franzoso of Rovigo carves it by hand: the four small feet, the base, the body, the large angel on top and six more angels in front.
The lacquer is Venetian: white crackle with small touches of colour and a matt clear coat. The real gold leaf is laid by hand by Lara Finotti, a painter from Bovolone. The dial can be the classic northern European one or hand-painted by Paul Merkte, with Europe's great monuments and a moon with a face.
We build it only to order, like the pieces from our atelier: the price is available on request.
