Thursday, December 17, 2009

A Rare Emilian Wehrle Singing Bird Clock C.1875




This next piece is a fantastic Singing Bird Clock made in Furtwangen C.1875. This example in in a wonderful Neo-Classical style case. The case is a Dark Walnut, with Ebony trim and gold accents.



The movement in this clock is a very robust brass plate three train movement, the largest Emilian Wehrle made. This movement is 8 day time, strike on the hour, bird song, and automation.



Perched in an arch way on the top of the case is a large songbird, with animation to the head, beak and tail.


On the hour the bird comes alive, followed by the strike on a large gong.



The Singing bird clock is one of the hardest of all Emilian Wehrle's clocks to find. In fact you can count all known examples worldwide on your two hands.







We are very lucky to have captured two beautiful examples in our collection. Our other example is a carved wall model and is featured below on our site.



This clock was purchased through our website. We are always looking to add unique Black Forest Clocks to our private collection. If you have a clock you believe would be of interest please contact me directly at madeinfurtwangen@yahoo.com. If you know where a fantastic clock is, that you do not own... we will pay finders fees for any clock purchased through a referral.












2 comments:

Term paper guide said...

waooo.. cool stuff..

Anonymous said...

This is an wonderful clock. I never knew these clocks with singing birds existed. Thank you for sharing!