Hermle Clocks
Let a Hermle mantel clock spruce up your space in style. With a rich history dating back to the twenties and continuing today with a tradition of excellence and quality craftsmanship, Hermle remains the preferred-most-choice as manufacturer of clocks, movements and clock components using the core traditions and combining them with the contemporary manufacturing techniques.
While most of the American clock companies mark their roots to the early 1800’s, the Hermle Company is a unique success story from the twentieth century. The company was established in 1922, shortly after Germany started recovering from the World War I, as the Franz Hermle Clock Company in the town of Gosheim near the Wuerttemberg, Germany.
Amazingly, this was the time when the global economy was dropping badly and American clock companies were struggling for their existence, the new German company flourished. By the early 1930’s, the Hermle clock company was a pioneer in the production of quality clock movements. While the competitor clock companies were using traditional, nineteenth century methods, Franz Hermle had an eye for competence and used the latest, highly advanced techniques for manufacturing the clock movements.
Hermle is a leading manufacturer that sells directly to the wholesale industry and operates in over 80 countries with offices in Germany and, as Hermle Black Forest Clocks, in the United States. Besides a pioneer in the manufacture of movements and clocks, Franz Hermle and Sohn is a foremost supplier of pendulums and clock dials. The company also manufactures decorative weight shells for the modern weight-driven clocks, mainly for the grandfather clocks.
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Kieninger Clocks
The Kieninger clocks are celebrated as true classics of the industry and some are also shown in renowned clock museums. The company produces high quality, technically advanced finished clocks and mechanical movements. The clock mechanisms power the best timepieces produced and designed worldwide.
Established in 1912 in the Black Forest area of Germany, Kieninger is the oldest existing manufacturer of the mechanical movements for mantel, wall and floor clocks around the world. Since 1917, the company has been situated in Aldingen, a beautiful village between the Swabian Alps and the Black Forest. Today, the Kieninger workshop occupies a 54,000 square foot production facility, which was lately constructed in 1991 and now employs more than 50 skilled and highly talented workers.
Reliable and Feature-rich
Kieninger clocks satisfy the highest customer demands with their reliability, craftsmanship and exceptional level of elegance. Features such as beveled crystal glasses, full moon phase operation, Westminster & Triple chimes, automatic beat adjustment, automatic chime shut-off option and many others are evident in the Kieninger clocks and movements.
The Kieninger movement excels with the most sophisticated of manufacturing and design quality. Several patents and innovations (16-rod chimes, automatic beat adjustment, night time shut-off systems for 1/2-hour and 1/4-hour movements, second indication for pendulum lengths under 116 cm, automatic chime sequencing, different manufacturing components and processes) determine the design quality.
Tested for Class and Performance
Each Kieninger Clock Movement holds a laser engraved serial number. The Kieninger Clock Movement plates are manufactured using a special brass alloy which is tough and has a tensile strength of 53 kp/mm2. Fast turning pinions are hardened and are made of stainless or high-quality steel.
Kieninger frequently produce Limited Editions of their clocks. Browse through our website to find a range of Kieninger clocks that are factory fresh and customized to the latest specifications!
L’Epee Clocks
L’Epee stands for the timeless design and the best clockmakers quality. If you are looking for a prestigious, reliable and high quality timepiece, L’Epee comes up as the preferred choice. The family of L’Epee clocks comes up with many elegant series and models.
In 1777, Frederic Japy started the world’s first large-scale clock manufacturing company in the Montbeliard area of France. Several more companies were established in the region in due course, in imitation of the renowned industry leader.
One of them was the L’Epee factory that in 1839 started manufacturing escapements, movements and clocks. The company also manufactured musical boxes that later found their way into the best collections in private homes and museums throughout the world.
Unmatched Workmanship
The L’Epee Company received esteemed gold awards at different international exhibitions in Paris in 1889 and 1900, Vienna 1892, Hanoi 1902, the Americas and Great Britain. Then, as now, L’Epee clocks can easily be found in most of the countries worldwide. L’Epee illustrated “the Giant Regulator”, i.e. the largest clock in the world, thus getting it a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
This unusual creation weighs 1.2 tons and measures 2.20 m tall. The mechanical movement of the clock alone weighs 120 kg. This contemporary masterpiece needed more than 2,800 hours of work and was revealed at the Louvre in Paris, before touring the Middle East, Europe and the US.
In 1999 L’Epee was acquired by the London based clockmaker, F.A. Gluck, who turned around and sold the company to Swiza, Switzerland’s largest manufacturer of alarm and miniature clocks, moving the manufacturer of L’Epee clocks to Switzerland; thus starting a new chapter in the L’Epee history.
Innovation at Its Best!
A century and a half of experience, rich history and careful work by craftsmen, ensure the L’Epee name continues to serve a new generation of discerning clients, providing unmatched products of lasting tradition and quality.
The modern L’Epee clocks are the realistic replicas of the early masterpieces. They are ideal reproductions, backed by an additional benefit of advanced technologies that ensure durability and the lasting quality.
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