8TMT 275/9 Cervus Regalis
€1.440,00
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8TMT 275/9 Cervus Regalis
€1.440,00
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€1.440,00
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Delivery time: 5 to 8 working days
Listen to the cuckoo
Original recording from our workshop in Gütenbach.
VdS-certified original – genuine Black Forest clockmaking artistry.
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.
SHIPPING & RETURNS
We ship every clock carefully packed and fully insured with DHL, usually within 3 to 5 working days. Delivery is free within Germany, across the entire EU and to the United States. For deliveries to the United States all import duties are included in the price as well, there is nothing to pay on delivery. For all other countries the shipping cost is shown during checkout and any customs duties are paid by the recipient. If you are not completely satisfied with your clock, you may return it within 14 days free of charge. A short message to info@schneider-clocks.com is all it takes.
Article
- Article number50027509
- GTIN04262579890215
Movement
- Type8-day movement
- DriveMechanical
- Night shut-offAutomatic
- Pinecone weights1500 g
Dimensions
- Height48.0 cm
- Width31.0 cm
- Depth26.0 cm
- Weight7.4 kg
Music
- Music box✓
- Melodies2
- Notes22
- PiecesEdelweiss; The Happy Wanderer
- PlaysOn every full hour
Figures & finish
- Moving partsDancers
- Dancing figures✓
- AnimalsHare, stag, bird
- ColourWalnut brown
The King of the Forest
The hunting clock is one of the oldest and best-loved forms of the Black Forest cuckoo clock. Since the 19th century it has told the same story: of the forest, of game, and of the hunt, which for generations was part of life in the Black Forest.
The Cervus Regalis carries this motif through in its fullest form. Above the dial watches a stag's head with wide, sweeping antlers; below it two hunting rifles cross, framed by heavy oak foliage. At 48 cm tall it is a piece that carries a room – and, with its music and dancing figures, at the same time one of the liveliest clocks in our carving collection.
Antlers That Command the Room
The heart of the clock sits right at the top: a stag's head on a heraldic shield, the antlers finely worked out down to the last tine. Beneath it two hunting rifles cross, and at the sides large oak leaves lay themselves across the roof – each one worked by hand and glazed in classic walnut brown.
In the Black Forest, the stag is more than a decorative motif. It stands for the forest itself, from which wood, craft and livelihood have always come. The region's clockmakers took it up in the 19th century, when the plain Bahnhäusle clock became the richly carved hunting clock.
The Whole Forest Is in the Details
On the left of the case a hare rises up, its ears laid back, half hidden among the oak leaves. On the right a bird sits on a branch and looks upward – alert, as if it had heard the cuckoo.
These small scenes are what makes a genuine Black Forest carving so appealing: you don't discover them at first glance, but only once the clock has long been hanging on the wall. Together with the hunting horn and game bag beneath the dial and the little powder keg under the roof ridge, they form a complete hunting still life.
On the Hour, the Dancing Begins
Above the dial a stage opens up: four hand-painted figures in traditional costume stand on a fretworked balcony console. On the hour – after the cuckoo's call – they come to life and turn their rounds, accompanied by a 36-note mechanical music box that alternates between playing “Edelweiss” and “The Happy Wanderer”.
The music is produced entirely without electronics: a pinned cylinder plucks the tuned reeds of the music box, driven solely by the power of the weights. If you would like quiet at night, the automatic night shut-off takes care of it – it silences the call and the music without the clock having to be stopped.
A clock you don't just see – you hear it
The wooden dial carries applied Roman numerals and delicate hands in a light natural tone – a deliberate contrast to the dark case. Below it, laid across the base, lies a carved hunting horn with its strap; the game bag closes off the front at the bottom.
Between the leafy tendrils the pendulum swings, flanked by three large pinecone weights on their chains. Their steady beat is what sets a mechanical clock apart from every other: it does not just show the time, you hear it.
The mechanical 8-day movement
Inside the Cervus Regalis works a mechanical 8-day movement – the top class among cuckoo clock movements. Wound once, the clock runs for a full week and drives everything at once: the pendulum, the cuckoo's call, and the music box with the dancing figures. Three pinecone weights supply the energy – one for the going train, one for the cuckoo, one for the music.
This design with pendulum and pinecone weights has its roots in the 18th-century Black Forest, where farmhouse clockmaking grew into a world-famous craft tradition. To this day this principle continues almost unchanged: the descending weights drive the movement, the pendulum sets the tempo – clockmaking in its purest form. The clock is wound once a week by pulling the weights back up via their chains – a small ritual that has been part of living with a genuine Black Forest clock for generations.
