August Schwer Farmhouse Cuckoo Clock

Large Farmhouse Cuckoo Clock by August Schwer

Walnut August Schwer Farmhouse Cuckoo Clock with 8-day movement/operating time (mechanical), with music and dancing people. Each year, the Association of the Black Forest Clock organizes a contest for essentially the most superb clock of the year. In the year 2009, the contest used to be held at the Technik Museum Speyer. All cuckoo clock manufacturers of the Black Forest take a clock into the contest and the guests choose the clock of the year. Farmhouse Cuckoo Clock is the winner of 2009!

This very massive August Schwer cuckoo clock item is all specific and every detail, which holds for the distinctiveness of a Black Forest Farmhouse. The center point of this clock is on particular traditional jobs on a Black Forest farm. The large figurine at the clock presents a farmer, favoring his cutter, taking a break from the forage harvest. Just next to him, the simple full hay carriage shows he is nearly done together with his day’s work. Slightly additional, in the hall of the small chapel, stands a shingle rack. This can be more or less a workbench to supply roof shingles. During the difficult winter months, whilst there used to be no work within the field, the farmers commonly lower shingles to earn a few coins.

An extravagantly identified function of this August Schwer cuckoo clock is the construction of the cuckoo clock itself. Not like different clock models, this clock has character outbuildings, obtained as whole buildings themselves. Commonly, these additions are best advised via attaching somewhat emitted to the side of a timepiece. In this case, the chapel to the precise and the storage shed to the left are whole little buildings. Therefore a whole Black Forest farm group, with an original farmhouse, additions, and setting, is presented in a magnificent cuckoo clock.

Many Black Forest farm homes had their very own chapel, as a result of how one can the following settlement church, used to be too long away or daily difficult to reach during the winter snows. The identity of the clock comes from the little boy figurine to the left of the clock, at the entrance of the little shed.

• Clock Movement:  Regula – The cuckoo clock has a mechanical REGULA movement from the market leader SBS-FEINTECHNIK within the Black Forest/Germany.
• Night time close off:  Manually – The clock may also be silenced manually with a lever.
• Clock Songs: Play 2 songs – Glad Wanderer and Edelweiss (The melodies amend every hour between the Glad Wanderer and Edelweiss).