The Tower
The Zytglogge Sketches — 1534
Bern’s clock tower, drawn from life in the 1530s.
- Work
- Sketches of the Zytglogge, Bern
- Maker
- Unknown draughtsman
- Date
- 1534
- Held by
- via Wikimedia Commons (PD-old)
- License
- Public domain
- Master
- 2193×1467px
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
Sizes are capped to what this piece’s real source scan honestly supports — we never enlarge past the engraving.
$29.00
The story
Details of Bern's Zytglogge — the medieval clock tower whose astrolabe dial and hour-striking automata still perform today — set down on paper in 1534, when the clock itself was already a century old. These are working drawings from the drawn-by-hand era of horological record: the tower studied the way one studies a machine one may someday have to repair. Almost five centuries later the clock still runs, which makes this one of the oldest condition reports in the house.
See it on your wall
The mechanism, made for a room
The Zytglogge Sketches — 1534 printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of an open-access work held by via Wikimedia Commons (PD-old), served under the institution’s stated license (Public domain) — source linked below.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- The artwork is never cropped and never enlarged past its scan — sizes stop where the engraving stops holding.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Source: via Wikimedia Commons (PD-old) — the scan this reproduction is printed from, and the page documenting its public-domain / open-access status. We are unaffiliated with any watch manufacturer, past or present.
