Spectacular hand made "Drop Dead" French UTI Art Deco Clock

A fabulous French deco clock by UTI Paris, I really think this is something special! Maybe it was made for a salon or exhibition as every piece of the clock is hand made and all pieces are marked or numbered for assembly. Usually a master would be made and then pieces would be cast or stamped out of metal for a production run.

The work is really quite exquisite and to the highest standards, I’ve certainly never seen anything like it before! The case is silver plated bronze with black vitrolite panels and the stepped design is really something. When you think of the “zig zag” idea, this clock embodies it all, since it steps up and also steps to the side. Hard to imagine anyone could design this and also have it made.

The dial is frosted silver with heavy bevelled edge patinated bronze batons and deco sword hands. It has a very high quality 19″‘ Lemania 8 day movement and as you might know about watches I’m sure you’ll have heard of this noted Swiss company, better known for their complicated watch movements. It’s in fabulous all round condition, the narrowest piece of vitrolite on the left hand side does have a small crack near the bottom but it’s not very noticeable. It’s also very very heavy and a great size.