Case:
The clock case has been made of solid French Lime wood only. About 12cm high thick pieces of wood. First the high schooled selection glueing drying and then the machine carving; during it the operator verifies continuosly the cut out of the extra parts of solid wood not needed for the real carving. Fully hand made carving and then sending by the artist in Sanguinetto village: “Mancasola Pietro” master since about 25 years. Clock sculpture includes: legs, base, central and the 2 sides. Clock glass is German made by Jaeckle company in the Black Forest since 1888. Back side rotating panel. Medium walnut finished nitro based and then a final half shiny acrilic transparent, according to the new laws for the safe environement. Properly sended by our polishing man Mr. Stefano.
Movement:
Original German mechanical movement from the company Hermle, they do clock movements in the Black Forest since 1920 made of solid brass. It plays the Holland style “Bim-Bam” dual tone hourly and a double tone at the half hour. Clock movement features: self centring and self regulating. Clock winding weekly by rotating the key in the 2 holes in the brass round dial. If you do not want the clock to chime simply wind up the right side spring only. Please rotate the minute hand clockwise only. No pendulum but the “swiss escapement wheel” that swinging very fast makes the time keeping. Do not overwind the 2 springs.
Warranty:
We grant 2 years totally worldwide. It has the specific operating and starting booklet in 2 languages included. Clock wood has been selected in 10 years so it's dry and safe itself. The movement easly come out from the back side just after unscrewing the clock hands and the front screw. If you send or bring back the old one we give you a new clock movement for free during the first 2 years and later at sole its cost. Anycase you do not need to repair or to ask people to come to your house. Simply self made replacement and per post sending back the old one to us.
SIMILAR MODELS: #STR.05 #STR.03 #STR.01
Amazing American 30's fireplace table clock. It has been born in 1984 when the Polish-American designer Mr. Ed Karpinsky during a dinner in a restaurant in North Carolina, disigned that clock on a paper and said: any American east coast will take a clock home, if they have much money they will take a grandfather clock model SZR.ET and if not much money they will take a small one. After a few months we returned to the usa with the 2 models needed for being stably on that market. In fact the colons coming from Europe brought the “illuminated” technology and locally had any kind of wood too. Many homes since 1700 had 3 clocks, one grandfather one table one wall clock. Some american locally made by “Ansonia” and the richest people imported that from Germany and England. At the very begining the model was too much American so during the years we mantained the big “eye” but rest we adapted to the different finishes and sizes worldwide. Surely a limited edition fireplace clock because only the founder Mr. Antonio Altobel was able to transform a small drawing made on a tissue in a real American table clock.
