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STR.05
Wooden table clock
For a table or a bedroom, in French style. A single piece of solid lime wood carved by hand, with the pine cone finial carved separately and set on top.
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 46 cm · width 25 cm · depth 13 cm
- Wood
- A single piece of solid French lime wood, up to 12 cm thick, hollowed for the movement; pine cone carved separately
- Finish
- Semi-gloss medium 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 is a single piece of solid French lime wood, up to 12 cm thick, hollowed out to hold the movement. The pine cone on top is carved separately and added afterwards. We select the wood and let it season for up to eight years before working it, so it stays free of defects.
We rough it out on a manual pantograph, checking step by step the bits that remove the extra wood. Then Franco carves it by hand, with leaves and flowers that reach through the whole depth of the wood, and we sand it well to finish it all the way round. The semi-gloss medium walnut finish is done with great care. 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.
