Big Ben Gold Table Clock

Comitti London Est.1850 Big Ben Wall Clock. The mechanism is manually wound, the power reserve is 8 days. Limited edition of 100 pieces. The silver guilloche dial displays the hours and minutes.

Comitti of London is a family-owned company that has been creating beautiful interior clocks since 1850.

The founder of the company, the Italian mechanic Onorato Comitti, came to England in 1845. Here he engaged in the production of barometers, and soon his products became very popular in the homes of wealthy Englishmen. In the late Victorian period, the company concentrated on the production of a variety of watches.

At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, the production of English interior clocks reached perfection. It was then that a clear connection began to be traced between classical architecture, which was loved by furniture craftsmen, and the production of watches that repeated the design of fashionable furniture cabinets at that time. Skilled carvers and jewelers created cabinet clocks from the same precious woods and with the same decor as furniture.

Many design solutions of those distant years continue their life in the current Comitti watches. They have long been classics of English watchmaking. Comitti remains a family business today. The company is currently run by the grandchildren of George Barker, who married Louise Comitti and joined the family business in the 1890s.

Against the background of other companies, Comitti is distinguished by the excellent execution of watch cases. For their manufacture, cabinetmakers use a carefully selected array of precious woods, decorate it with hand-carved wood, inlay and marquetry (an ancient technique of decorative decoration). Each copy is polished by hand to emphasize the beauty of the natural texture or to give the effect of "old wood". The dials are also assembled and painted only by hand, so each dial is unique.