Pendulum clock, 1970s. This clock has a very special history: it is a prototype that has been kept in its creator's home for over fifty years. The opportunity to have this object arose from a meeting in the store with an elderly gentleman, a watchmaker employed in the 1970s at the Lowell clock company in Modena. He explained that in those years the company wanted to come up with some innovations in the market for classic pendulum clocks and that he was the person dedicated to create the prototypes, which would then be screened for mass production. This model was not chosen and he took it home, where it has remained for over fifty years. The clock is perfectly functioning, hand-wound, operated by chrome-plated steel chain gears, at the ends of which are three counterweights of different weights that mark time by descending. The plexiglass front compartment is sliding, thus facilitating winding operations. The maximum charge provides a six-day autonomy. The clock chimes the hours, half hours and quarter hours, with three different combinations, as the sound is produced by four independent brass hammers. The body of the entire clock is made of lacquered multilayer wood. Since this object was born as a prototype, it does not have the manufactory mark.
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SILVER Seller in Modena, Italy
