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SLR.72
Lacquered grandfather clock
A light, slender French Baroque. Solid lime wood carved by hand, a two-tone lacquer in white and light ivory, and details in real gold leaf.
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 218 cm · width 57 cm · depth 30 cm
- Wood
- Solid French lime wood, up to 10 cm thick; sides in double bent Tanganyika and maple; MDF back
- Finish
- Two-tone Venetian lacquer, white and light ivory; 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; slides forward on 2 runners
- Chime
- Westminster every quarter hour
- Dial
- Moon phase dial; hands of our own design, signed
- Pendulum
- Brass lyre pendulum and weights by Jaeckle
- Other
- Two carved angels; round 5 mm glass bevelled by Giovanni Casella, blown glass below; large upper door with concealed hinges and lock
How it is made
We started making it at the end of the 1970s, reviving a French Baroque model. It was slim and delicate, and over the years we strengthened it so it could be exported without touching its graceful design. So we made it taller, and gave the large upper door concealed hinges and a lock.
The case is solid French lime wood, up to 10 cm thick, on a frame with sides in double bent Tanganyika and maple. The wood seasons for up to eight years, one year per centimetre. We rough it out on a manual pantograph, then Franco Franzoso of Rovigo carves by hand the base, the two angels, the large upper door and the piece that joins the two halves of the case. The Venetian lacquer is two-tone, white and light ivory, under a matt acrylic clear coat; the real gold leaf is laid by Lara Finotti, a painter from Bovolone.
The large upper door is the soul of the clock: open it and the whole movement is in view, and on two runners it slides forward like a drawer. The Kieninger movement plays the Westminster chime every quarter hour and has a moon phase dial. It is wound once a week by pulling the chains: each weight drops about 12 cm a day. It can stay silent at night, from 10 pm to 7:15 am.
