Case:
Solid American Toulipier wood made grandfather clock. Pieces of wood have been made separately so to have a nice woodworking, finest glasspaper sending and varnishing even very deep. Hand made glass bevelling all around by glass master Mr. Giovanni Casella. The door has a top wide arch for showing and so to stand out the magnificent clock dial arch and its 4 dancing figurines too. Door side wooden pieces have been 45° cut so as soon as the door closed start the glass in the clock case. Insuperable luminous elegance. Movement is pending over 2 solid brass gold plated back side supports and the internal light makes a bottom surrounding light over the internal bevelled mirror inside the room and the room light reflect itself on the roof due to the 3 bevelled round top mirrors. Moreover the sun light has an incredible luminous taste due to the full back internal and sides mirroring. It opens from the top to adjust the 16 notes brass colored gonds and to put the souveniers over the top shelf inside the front glass bevelled arch. Bottom 4 round feet are screwble out and clock can stay directly on the floor.
Finish:
Very detailed and exclusive finish made by Mr. Giorgio. It is a regular walnut color waterbased and the acrilic finishing half shiny accorting to the law for a safe environement. Very gently made perfectly well done on desassambled pieces because each wooden piece is visible.
Specials:
1. the internal light 220v/110v to turn on for a few minures not to mantain on all day long.
2. the dial has extra large roman brass numerals over silvered numeral ring.
3. fully American Touipier wood even on the 45° door side pieces
4. the 4 dial top dancers hand painted dancing and rotating in out quarterly
5. the Venice printed bob on lire pendulum showing San Marco Plaza
6. the 2 solid brass door hinges that allow the door itself to cover the clock case vertical sides.
7. the British style/thin final clock hands
8. fully left to right side 4 glass shelves
9. custom made back side solid brass gold plated movement supports
10. bottom inernal low positioned mirror and 3 top mirrors
11. 4 bottom round feet screwable off
12. big top sphere that represent the globe
13. made in 2 pieces the clock and the top triangle piece
Movement:
Original German mechanical movement from the company Kieninger, they do clock movements in the Black Forest since 1912 made of solid high thick brass large sized and shiny polished brass plates. It plays the 3 different long special chimes on 16 notes: Westminster chime, Ode to Joy Beethoven's and the Ave Maria Schubert's hourly. Then it plays one tone at 15 minutes, 2 tones at 30 minutes, and 3 tones at 45 minutes. Weekly wind by rotating the cranc key inside the 3 front holes at the dial instead of the chains in front of the pendulum. It also automatically may swap chime itself hourly. Very unique!! It has the true second hand that makes 60 seconds per each minute properly as one pendulum swing left to right side is a second. It has the long lire pendulum and decorated big size weights all them German made by the Jaeckle company since 1888. Clock movement features: self oiling, self centring, self regulating and you may rotate minute hand counterclockwise trouble free. Moreover clock may not chime night time from 10pm untill 7.15am automatically. Finally the clock movement very specially has the 4 dancers at dial top that each rotates itself and goes inside out quartely while clock is chiming, as per the church in Mary plaza in Muechen, Germany.
Warranty:
We grant 2 years totally worldwide. It has the operating and starting booklet in 16 different languages included. We also will include usb pen drive showing start up videos in English language too. Clock wood has been selected in 10 years so it's dry and safe itself. About the movement package it includes the dial hands once. So simply open the top door, it comes off to the front simply by unscrewing the 2 gray screws and if you send or bring back the old one we give you a new clock movement package 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.
It was born in 1984 when the Polish-American designer Mr. Ed Karpinsky working for us in the High Point Furniture Market in North Carolina disigned that clock on several light transparent papers (still available at our own small museum in Sanguinetto Verona Italy) based on a Vittorian style British phone cabinet. At the very begining the model was very American, so during the years we mantained the exclusively craftmanship and we had adapted it to the different finishes by using the American Toulipier wood and before by developing the unique Kieninger dancer movement with 16 notes and the Jaeckle dial and by adding all the mirrors inside to cover all the back and side interior wood and sometimes by adding the glass shelves. Surely a limited edition grandafther clock because only our founder Mr. Antonio Altobel was able to transform a drawing in a real American table clock by using the requested high performed skills in doing it step by step, no machinery can help, that's real artisan piece of art in home, hierloom. Very louminous that has to illuminate all the surrounding area at the boom thanks to the low positioned bottom mirror, moreover the 3 top mirrors also reflect the room lighting.
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