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SLR.10
Lacquered grandfather clock
Venetian Baroque, made as in 1945: a base in solid Italian walnut, sides bent by hand one by one and an ivory lacquer with gold leaf details.
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 210 cm · width 45 cm · depth 22 cm · weight 60 kg
- Wood
- Base in solid Italian walnut, herringbone-joined; sides in double bent Tanganyika and maple; crest and decorations in walnut, mouldings in beech
- Finish
- Ivory Venetian lacquer over white stucco, gold leaf, ochre paintings and flowers by hand; matt 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
- Pendulum
- Brass lyre pendulum and weights by Jaeckle
- Other
- 5 mm upper glass bevelled by Giovanni Casella, blown glass below; round opening at the back; treble-clef side slots
How it is made
It is one of the founder's first clocks: Antonio Altobel took a Venetian cabinet and fitted a clock movement inside it. It quickly became popular in the Veneto, because it is understated, small and very sturdy. The crest came later, for export.
The base is solid Italian walnut, joined in a herringbone pattern, and the carving is not applied: it is cut into the wood, as if from a single block. The legs run as one upright along the whole base. The sides are bent by hand with clamps, not in a press. Giorgio De Tana carves it, in wood up to 10 cm thick.
On the sides we kept the treble-clef slots of the 1950s original: they let the chime be heard better. The ivory lacquer is the old kind, over a white stucco base, with gold leaf, ochre paintings and flowers on the base, all done by hand by Gianfranco Pozzani.
