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STR.03
Wooden table clock
A French-style classic, carved by hand from a single piece of solid lime wood. The leaves and flowers reach through the whole depth of the wood.
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 59 cm · width 29 cm · depth 13 cm
- Wood
- A single piece of solid French lime wood, up to 12 cm thick
- Finish
- Semi-gloss walnut
- Movement
- German Hermle mechanical movement in brass; Swiss escapement; weekly key winding in the 2 dial holes; turn the hands clockwise only
- Chime
- Bim-bam at the half hour; on the hour counts the strokes with a Dutch double bim-bam; to silence it, wind only the right-hand spring
- Dial
- Round, cast gilt brass, opening bezel with convex glass, black Roman numerals on white aluminium plaques
- Pendulum
- None: a Swiss escapement takes its place
- Other
- Turning panel at the back to reach the movement; finished all the way round
How it is made
The case comes from one piece of solid French lime wood, up to 12 cm thick, with no glued joints. We select the wood and let it season for up to ten years before working it: it dries naturally, a year per centimetre. That way it stays free of defects.
We rough it out on a manual pantograph, where the operator checks step by step the bits that remove the extra wood. Then Franco carves it by hand and we sand it carefully, because on a table it is seen from every side and is finished all the way round. The finish is a semi-gloss walnut. At the back, a turning panel gives access to the movement.
The brass Hermle movement gives a bim-bam at the half hour and on the hour counts the strokes with a Dutch-style double tone. It has no pendulum: a Swiss escapement, swinging fast, keeps the time. It is wound with a key once a week, in the two dial holes; to silence the chime, wind only the right-hand spring.
