Our Grandfather Clocks category covers a diverse range of freestanding clocks dating from the 17th century until today. Listed items include everything from Swedish Mora clocks, Ångermanlandsbrudar, Danish-made Bornholmsur and English longcase clocks with advanced clockwork to much later models by designers such as Carl Malmsten and Olle Anderson. Collections of grandfather clocks in miniature are also listed regularly.
Our Grandfather Clocks category covers a diverse range of freestanding clocks dating from the 17th century until today. Listed items include everything from Swedish Mora and Ångermanlandsbrudar clocks, Danish-made Bornholmsur and English longcase clocks with advanced clockwork to much later models by designers such as Carl Malmsten and Olle Anderson. Collections of grandfather clocks in miniature are also listed regularly.
The grandfather clock is said to have been invented by English clockmaker William Clement circa 1670. A new kind of mechanism developed around that time that could accommodate shorter pendulums made it possible for Clement to create this kind of freestanding clock with a narrow case. By comparison, Sweden's renowned Mora clocks began to be produced in Mora sometime around 1740.
Auctionet's catalogue of sold items includes a grandfather clock of especially high quality designed by Charles Gretton (master clockmaker in London, 1700–1733) that features intricate inlays on its wooden case. Also, a painted clock in the Swedish Rococo style designed by Petter Ernst and a richly-ornamented timepiece dated 1937 made at celebrated Swedish cabinet-maker Hjalmar Jackson's workshop. Other items of note to have gone under the hammer at Auctionet include Carl Malmsten's Solblomman grandfather clock, as designed by Peter Hellquist in 1981/82 while studying at Malmsten's Capellagården school.