Clocks · Table clock
Table clock by Martti Hyppänen, Finland, 1990s
- Maker / attribution
- Martti Hyppänen (maker)
- Date
- 1990s
- Historical period
- Mechanical Renaissance (1990 – 2010)
- Country of origin
- Finland
- Place
- Päijät-Häme, Hartola
- Object type
- Table clock
- Materials / technique
- wood, vaneri, plastic, metal
- Dimensions
- diameter: 4,5 cm, height: c.. 3 - 6 cm.
- Holding institution
- Lusto – Suomen Metsämuseo
- Accession / object no.
- E16002:18
- Credit line
- Lusto – Suomen Metsämuseo (via Finna)
- Catalogue title (original)
- Puukello; Pöytäkello (Finnish)
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Record summary
Held and catalogued by Lusto – Suomen Metsämuseo (object number E16002:18), this is a table clock by Martti Hyppänen, made in Päijät-Häme, Hartola, Finland, dated 1990s. The Atlas places it in the Mechanical Renaissance period (1990 – 2010) of its Clocks collection. Materials and techniques recorded by the source: wood, vaneri, plastic, metal. Recorded dimensions: diameter: 4,5 cm, height: c.. 3 - 6 cm. The record is illustrated with 5 photographs.
Assembled from the source record's structured fields. Dates and attributions are given as the source states them; where a field is missing the Atlas leaves it blank rather than estimating.
Catalogue description
Description — Lusto – Suomen Metsämuseo
Vanerista sorvattu pyöreä, pienikokoinen puutappi, jonka pohja on leikattu viistoksi niin, että yläpäähän suoraan kulman sahatussa päädyssä oleva kellotaulu jää katsojaan nähden noin 45 asteen kulmaan. Kellotaulun keskiosa on valkoinen ja sen reunoja kiertävät roomalaiset numerot. Viisarit ovat ohuet ja väriltään mustat. Kellotaulun päällä on kirkas muovikuori ja taulua ympäröi kullanvärinen viistoreunainen rengas.
Shown in the original language of the source catalogue. An editor-reviewed English translation has not yet been published; we do not publish machine translations as authoritative text.
Inscriptions & marks
Kellon pohjassa on polttopainettu merkintä UPM ja firman aarnikotka logo. Kellotaulussa on musta teksti QUARTZ / JAPAN.
Historical context
Mechanical Renaissance (1990 – 2010)
Mechanical watches return as cultural objects; independent watchmaking flourishes.
Mechanical clocks returned as luxury and craft objects, alongside radio-controlled and designer quartz clocks. Independent makers and restorers revived traditional techniques, and museums increasingly documented industrial and electric clocks as heritage.
Read the period in the timelineMore clocks from this periodEarlier: Quartz Revolution
Atlas type guide
Bracket, table and spring-driven clocks
Spring-driven clocks freed timekeeping from the hanging weight. The coiled mainspring, documented from the fifteenth century, made portable table clocks possible; to even out its declining force, makers used the fusee, a conical pulley connected to the barrel by a gut line or chain. Renaissance table clocks from Augsburg and Nuremberg — drum-shaped, square or tower-shaped in gilt brass — were luxury scientific objects, often with astronomical dials and alarms.
After the pendulum, English makers developed the bracket clock: a wooden case with a carrying handle, a short pendulum with a verge escapement, and often repeating work to sound the hours on demand at night. Later examples use the anchor escapement. In the nineteenth century, 'table clock' became a broad term for spring clocks of every nationality.
What to look for
- A fusee in the movement (cone-shaped pulley) and the type of line — gut or chain.
- Verge escapement with a short bob pendulum, often with a decoratively engraved backplate.
- Repeat cords or buttons that make the clock strike again on demand.
- Gilt-brass engraved cases and horizontal dials on Renaissance pieces.
- Case shapes: inverted bell, bell top, break-arch, lancet or balloon.
Dating clues
- Drum and tower table clocks: c. 1520–1650.
- Ebony veneered English bracket clocks with verge escapements: c. 1670–1800.
- Engraved backplates were usual on English clocks until c. 1800, then generally plain.
General guidance written by the Atlas editors about this kind of object. It is not a statement about this particular piece; for that, rely on the source record above and on physical examination.
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