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SLR.B4
Lacquered wood grandfather clock
The Big Ben tower brought down to the size of a living room. More than a thousand pieces of wood, four dials, a watercolour finish and two Kieninger mechanical movements.
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 258 cm · width 43 cm · depth 43 cm · weight 100 kg
- Wood
- Solid American tulipwood, flat parts veneered in Tanganyika; over 1000 pieces
- Finish
- Brush-painted watercolour effect in natural earths; matt water-based clear coat
- Movement
- Four movements: two quartz (1.5 V battery) and two German Kieninger mechanical ones. Chain-driven: weekly winding (up to 10 days), switchable night silencer from 10 pm to 7:15 am. Spring-driven: mirror-polished, Swiss escapement with 11 ruby jewels, weekly key winding from the back, fixed night silencer from 10 pm to 7:15 am
- Chime
- Chain-driven movement: Westminster on bells every quarter hour. Spring-driven movement: three melodies every quarter hour, Westminster, St Michael, Whittington
- Pendulum
- Brass lyre pendulum and weights by Jaeckle on the chain-driven movement; Swiss escapement on the spring-driven one
- Other
- Four dials with clear blown glass; two blue-grey cathedral glasses; four carved turrets; four doors; interior light 220-12 V
How it is made
We have made the single-dial version since 1970, after a long study to bring a city tower down to the size of a home. In 2000 came this one, finished on all four sides, to stand in the middle of a room. The case is solid American tulipwood, with the flat parts in Tanganyika: more than a thousand pieces, each worked on at least three sides.
The painter Giampietro of Bovolone painted it by brush, for a true watercolour effect: natural earths, masonry grey, black and blue on the parts that face the sky, gold-coloured details. The matt water-based clear coat lets you feel the brushstrokes.
Inside are four movements: two quartz and two Kieninger mechanical ones. One is chain-driven and plays the Westminster chime on bells. The other, spring-driven, is mirror-polished, has a Swiss escapement with 11 ruby jewels and three melodies to choose from: Westminster, St Michael and Whittington.
