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SMR.25
Wooden wall clock
The true Vienna clock, taken from examples that came from Austria. Brass grilles on the sides let the strike be heard better, and the glass is bevelled as on a floor-standing clock.
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 146 cm · width 41 cm · depth 21 cm
- Wood
- Solid American tulipwood with lime wood details; 6 finials in solid Italian walnut; plywood back
- Finish
- Semi-gloss medium walnut, water-based and nitro
- Movement
- German Hermle mechanical movement in brass, cable-driven; weekly crank winding in the 2 dial holes; turn the hands clockwise only
- Chime
- One stroke at the half hour, hours struck on a large spiral gong; to silence it, wind only the right-hand pulley
- Dial
- Round and domed, by Hermle, 20 cm across, with double brass ring and black Roman numerals on white
- Pendulum
- Extra-large Hermle lyre pendulum, 140 mm across (turn left to slow down, right to speed up); 2 polished brass weights; large ceramic pendulum scale
- Other
- Pierced brass grilles on the sides; glass hand-bevelled by Giovanni Casella, glass on the sides too; chisel carving without pantograph; metric hinge; 4 corner spacers
How it is made
We reproduced it by studying Vienna clocks that came from Austria. As on the originals of 80 and 100 years ago, we kept the pierced brass grilles on the sides, which let the strike be heard better. The case is all solid American tulipwood, with a few details in lime wood and six finials in solid Italian walnut, the two central ones larger. Only the back is plywood, and it keeps the clock true even while it hangs on the wall.
Franco cuts the carvings with a chisel straight into the wood, without a pantograph; then Stefano sands them by hand and we assemble the clock piece by piece. The finish is a semi-gloss medium walnut, water-based and nitro. The glass is bevelled by hand by Giovanni Casella, as on a floor-standing clock, and there is glass on the sides too. The metric hinge keeps the door hanging straight, and four spacers at the corners stop the case from marking the wall.
The movement is by the German firm Hermle, making clocks in the Black Forest since 1920. At the half hour it gives one stroke; on the hour it strikes the hours on a large spiral gong, made specially for our oversized wall clocks, with a soft, light sound. It is wound once a week with the crank in the two dial holes; if you would rather not hear the strike, wind only the right-hand pulley. Hermle makes the dial larger than usual for us, 20 cm across, and the extra-large lyre pendulum measures 140 mm.
