Display Cabinet with Clock in Ivory and Gold on Carved Legs

Putting a clock inside furniture creates a problem that pure display cabinets never have: the clock has to be independent of the cabinet.

A pendulum keeps time only while it swings in a true vertical plane, and it keeps beat only while its mount stays still. If the movement were fixed to a shelf or to the back of a door, then every time someone opened a side bay to move a glass, the pendulum would feel it.

So on this cabinet the clock is not part of the display structure at all. The movement hangs on its own vertical backboard, fixed directly to the carcass at two points top and bottom, and the display shelves either side are carried on the bay sides with no connection to that board. The centre bay is effectively a separate box that happens to share an outer case.

The last step happens in your room, not in the workshop. The cabinet is levelled on its legs first, then the pendulum is hung and set into beat against that level. A clock trued in the workshop and stood on an uneven floor would not hold.

Material: solid teak in the carcass, bay frames, drawer fronts, crest and legs.

Centre bay: full-height glazed clock section with visible dial, pendulum and chime tubes, mounted on an independent backboard fixed to the carcass.

Side bays: arched glazed doors with glass shelves on concealed supports, glazed returns to the angled front corners.

Base: row of shallow drawers with carved fronts, above a shaped and carved apron.

Legs: tall carved and tapered legs, hand-shaped, raising the cabinet clear of the floor.

Finish: ivory ground with gold applied by hand to carving, swags and mouldings.

Made to order: height, width, depth, bay count, drawer layout, finish tone and clock specification are all customisable. Custom sizes made to order - final measurements confirmed in writing before production.

The clock is removed before packing. The movement, pendulum, weights and chime tubes are detached, wrapped individually in foam, and packed into their own compartmented box that travels with the cabinet but not inside it. Nothing swings loose in transit.

The glazed doors are unhung and crated flat, each pane taped across the face and sleeved in foam, with the arched heads bedded in foam cut to their shape.

The carcass is wrapped in acid-free tissue first so nothing abrasive touches the ivory finish, then foam sheet, then bubble wrap, with extra padding at the angled front corners.

The carved legs are the most exposed part of the piece, so each one is boxed separately with foam moulded around the taper, and the pierced crest gets the same treatment.

All of it travels in hardwood crates with corner protection and orientation marking. Multi-layer protective packaging is included with every order at no extra cost.

Delivery is free anywhere in India, with guaranteed dent-free arrival - no distance charge, no size charge, no handling fee.

Production begins once your dimensions are confirmed in writing. We send photographs of your actual cabinet through the build: carcass, carving, ivory finish, gilding, and the clock fitted and running before it is packed.

Installation is done in a set order. Our team assembles and levels the cabinet on its legs first, checks it across both directions, then hangs the doors, fits the glass shelves, and last of all installs the movement, hangs the pendulum and sets it into beat in your room.

Let us know about lift dimensions, stair turns and doorway widths before dispatch so the route is planned in advance. Every photograph on this page is of the actual product, not a render.

The solid teak frame and joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the carcass, the bay frames, the drawer boxes, the leg joints and the connections between them. On a cabinet standing on legs rather than a plinth, those leg joints do real work, and they are built and guaranteed accordingly.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs with the piece and does not expire. Teak's own oils are its first protection and our warranty is the second.

Glass, shelves, drawer runners and hardware are covered against manufacturing defect. The clock movement carries its own maker's warranty, which we pass to you in full with the paperwork.

The ivory and gold finish is applied by hand and recorded against your order, so a later retouch can be matched exactly. Reach us with your order number and we will arrange it.