8TMT 1595/9 Sawmill
€2.790,00
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8TMT 1595/9 Sawmill
€2.790,00
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✓ Original Black Forest cuckoo clock – Certified by the Verein die Schwarzwälder Uhr e. V. (VdS). Your guarantee of genuine craftsmanship from the Black Forest.
CARE & MAINTENANCE
Cuckoo clocks from the Black Forest are robust, long-lived timepieces. Wipe the case occasionally with a dry, soft cloth. The movement should be cleaned and oiled by a specialist workshop every 5 years. Keep the clock away from direct sunlight and extreme temperature fluctuations to protect the natural wood.
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Article
- Article number50159509
- GTIN04262579890185
Movement
- Type8-day movement
- DriveMechanical
- Night shut-offAutomatic
- Pinecone weights1500 g
Dimensions
- Height58.0 cm
- Width49.0 cm
- Depth21.0 cm
- Weight11.0 kg
Music
- Music box✓
- Melodies2
- Notes22
- PiecesEdelweiss; The Happy Wanderer
- PlaysOn every full and half hour
Figures & finish
- Moving partsWoodchopper, wood sawyers, coachman, millwheel
- Dancing figures✓
- ColourBrown
Nobody here takes a break
The sawmill stands by the stream. The water wheel is turning, two men are pulling the bucksaw through a log, the carter comes round the corner with his long-timber wagon, and the dog with the little barrel on its collar keeps watch over it all.
Over the whole scene lies a heavy shingled roof, crowned by a bell tower with a real brass bell. And beneath it, where other clocks have a dial, you can watch the movement at work.
The Sägewerk is one of the most elaborate clocks in our collection – and one of the few in which craftsmanship is not only visible, but visible twice over: out front in the yard and behind the chapter ring.
At the sawhorse
On the right of the yard, two men stand at the sawhorse and pull the bucksaw through a log – one in a black waistcoat and a green hat with a chamois brush, the other at the chopping block with his axe raised. At their feet lie real wood shavings, and beside them the stacked logs and a pile of freshly cut boards.
These figures are the most elaborate work that comes out of our clock manufactory: individually modelled, individually painted, right down to the moustache, the creases in the trousers and the feather on the hat. No two are exactly alike.
More timber on the way
On the left, a chestnut horse with a pale mane draws the long-timber wagon up, three trunks loaded on it, their cut faces as bright as if freshly felled. The carter sits on the box, reins and whip in hand, one leg slung casually over the edge.
The wagon travels along a track of real sand and gravel, with moss and scattered grass running along beside it. Before lorries reached the valleys of the Black Forest, the way from the woods to the sawmill looked exactly like this.
The wheel drives it all
Behind the wagon, the large mill wheel turns against the wall of the house, its paddles picked out in turquoise, as though the water were splashing up at that very moment. It is the heart of the sawmill – for centuries, water power drove the sawmills, the mills and finally the first clockmaking workshops of the Black Forest.
At the far left edge, behind a picket fence with a flowering bush, stands the farmyard dog, looking into the camera. Around its neck it wears a small barrel.
A look inside
At the centre of the front there is nothing but a ring: Roman numerals in pale wood, delicate hands – and behind them an open, glazed case. You can see the brass plates, the blackened wheels, the drive chains with their weights, all of it in motion.
This kind of construction forgives nothing. There is no cover behind which anything could be hidden; every component has to sit correctly and be cleanly finished. For lovers of clocks, that is precisely the appeal: you see not only what time it is, but how time is made.
Now they dance
Above the movement the balcony opens up, framed by an intricately pierced balustrade. Behind it stand the couples in traditional costume: red skirts, black bodices, top hat and felt hat. After the call of the cuckoo they begin to move and turn their rounds, while the 22-note mechanical music box plays “Edelweiss” and “The Happy Wanderer” in turn.
At the right-hand end of the balcony sits a tabby cat, watching it all without moving a muscle. The music, incidentally, manages entirely without electronics: a pinned cylinder plucks the tuned reeds of the music box, driven solely by the power of the weights. At night, the automatic night shut-off keeps the call and the music silent – without the clock having to be stopped.
The mechanical 8-day movement
Inside the Sägewerk works a mechanical 8-day movement – the premier class among cuckoo clock movements. Wound just once, the clock runs for a whole week and drives everything at the same time: the pendulum, the call of the cuckoo, the music box with the dancing figures, the mill wheel and the sawyers. Three pinecone weights of 1,500 grams each supply the energy – one for the going train, one for the cuckoo, one for the music.
This design, with its pendulum and pinecone weights, has its roots in the 18th-century Black Forest, where the clockmaking of the farmhouses grew into a world-famous craft tradition. To this day the principle continues almost unchanged: the descending weights drive the movement, the pendulum sets the beat – clockmaking artistry in its purest form. The clock is wound once a week, by drawing the weights back up on their chains – a small ritual that has been part of living with a genuine Black Forest clock for generations.
