Hentschel Grandmother Clock

around 1970

Every 15 minutes this Waterloo-made grandmother clock chimes a tubular tribute to the Westminster, St. Michael’s or Whittington melodies. Heinrich Hentschel started Hentschel Furniture in the 1930s. Under the ownership of his son Carl, the product line expanded in the 1950s to include wooden cabinets for grandfather and grandmother clocks. Hentschel was the only Canadian company licensed to use the famous Keininger brass clockworks. The precision clockworks came from Germany to Waterloo and fit inside the cabinets. By the 1970s, Hentschel’s was one of only two shops left in the world crafting grandfather clock cabinets by hand.