Longcase
A tall glass grandfather clock with a brass movement and glowing copper wires, standing in darkness

Time Kept by Hand

Longcase builds mechanical longcase and wall clocks at one bench, a few each year, made to be wound by you and mended by your grandchildren.

See the clocks

Make Fewer Things

We finish four or five clocks a year, so each one gets the hours it needs.

Mend, Never Replace

Every part can come out, be repaired by any good clockmaker and go back in.

Wait for It

About eight months pass between the first drawing and the first tick.

What We Hold To

  • Brass That Lasts

    Solid brass plates and steel pivots, cut and finished by hand, never plated or printed.

  • One Clock at a Time

    Only one movement is ever on the bench, and it stays there until it runs true.

  • Wound by You

    A weekly wind is part of owning one. Five minutes on a Sunday keeps it honest.

  • Built to Be Opened

    No glue and no sealed modules. A screwdriver and some patience open every part.

  • Quiet on Purpose

    Each escapement is tuned for a soft tick you stop noticing after a day or two.

  • Signed Inside

    Every movement carries the maker's name and the year, scratched into the back plate.

Four Stages, Eight Months

Cast

Plates and wheels begin as brass bar, sawn and filed to the drawing.

Cut

Every tooth is cut on a hand-cranked wheel engine, then polished one by one.

Temper

Steel pivots and springs are hardened, tempered and burnished until they turn blue.

Wind

The movement runs on the bench for six weeks before it ever meets its case.

The clocks

Four Clocks This Year

All the clocks
No. 31 Hallmere, a tall walnut longcase clock with glass sides showing its brass pendulum and weights

No. 31

Hallmere

Longcase · In the workshop sample

No. 32 Wren, a small oak wall clock with a cream dial and a short brass pendulum behind a glass door

No. 32

Wren

Wall clock · Spoken for sample

No. 33 Calder, a smoked-glass longcase clock with brass edges and its whole movement on show

No. 33

Calder

Longcase · Drawing sample

No. 34 Tamsin, a dark ebonised bracket clock with a brass carrying handle and a cream dial

No. 34

Tamsin

Bracket clock · Open to commission sample

Close-up of a steel escape wheel and jewelled brass parts inside a clock movement

Cut, Polished and Fitted at One Bench

We make our own wheels, pinions and pivots instead of buying them in, because a part you made is a part you can make again.

Visit the atelier

Tell us where it will stand and who will wind it. We start with a conversation and a drawing, never a catalogue.

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