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SLR.70
Lacquered wood grandfather clock
A true French Comtoise: a solid fir case painted with flowers and the original Odobez iron movement, built like those of the 1700s.
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 224 cm · width 55 cm · depth 27 cm · weight 60 kg
- Wood
- Solid Austrian fir
- Finish
- Hand-painted pastel flowers
- Movement
- Original French Odobez mechanical movement, iron “cage de fer”; weekly crank winding in the 2 dial holes; switchable automatic night silencer from 10 pm to 7:30 am
- Chime
- Hours and half hours on a spiral gong and a bell, together or separately; repeats 2 minutes after the hour; lever to repeat the strike
- Dial
- Porcelain, signed Odobez, with small flowers; small moon phase under the 12; concentric date
- Pendulum
- Long and aged; rough iron weights on a cord, behind the pendulum
- Other
- Guitar-shaped door; side doors that open like a book; blown glass
How it is made
In the 1700s this was the clock of country people. The case was coated with stable waste and painted indoors in winter. It was made tall to keep it from rotting in the damp; when it grew old, only the movement stayed on the wall and the case ended up in the fireplace. We make it again in solid Austrian fir, with the guitar-shaped door and pastel paintings by Lara and Stefano.
The movement is by the French Odobez family: the “cage de fer”, the iron cage, made as it was then. The rough iron weights hang on a cord behind the pendulum. The porcelain dial bears the Odobez signature and small flowers, with a small moon phase under the 12.
It strikes the hours and half hours on a spiral gong and a bell, together or just one. Two minutes after the hour it strikes again, for anyone who missed it, and a pull of the lever repeats it once more: it used to call people in for lunch.
