Bronze Double Coat of Arms Clock

## Bronze Double Coat of Arms Clock There is something quietly extraordinary about an object that holds two histories at once. This double coat of arms clock begins not in a factory, but in the imagination of a family — in the surnames carried across generations, the crests that once marked land and loyalty, the moment two lineages chose to become one. Cast in cold bronze by the artisans at Druid Craft in Ballincollig, County Cork, it arrives as something more than a clock. It is a small, enduring record of belonging. Ireland has always understood bronze differently to other places. Here, the metal carries the memory of ancient hands — of the early Celtic metalworkers who knew that what you cast carefully enough could outlast everything else. Druid Craft, guided by Nicky Quinlivan, works in that same spirit: unhurried, deliberate, and deeply respectful of what the material can hold. When you commission this piece, you are not ordering a product. You are asking a craftsman to render something true. --- Druid Craft's cold-cast bronze process binds genuine bronze powder with resin under careful hand-finishing — producing a surface that carries real weight, real warmth, and the subtle, irreproducible marks of individual craft. No two clocks leave the workshop looking exactly alike. The variation is not a flaw; it is the signature of a human hand. At the centre of the piece, two family crests face one another within a classical heraldic surround — a composition that speaks the old language of lineage without needing translation. Beneath each crest, the family names are rendered with quiet precision. A golden clock face sits at the heart of the design, functional and unhurried in its elegance. A personalised inscription — the occasion, the date, the words you choose — is worked into the piece so that it reads not as an addition, but as always having been there. The HC3 format is the smaller of the Druid Craft heraldic range. It is sized to sit with genuine presence on a mantelpiece or sideboard — substantial enough to draw the eye, considered enough never to crowd a room. **The piece includes:** - Two personalised family crests within a classical heraldic surround - Custom family names beneath each crest - A golden clock face, elegantly proportioned - A bespoke inscription of your chosen occasion and date - A hand-finished cold-cast bronze surface, unique to each piece --- Some occasions ask for something that will still be on the wall in thirty years. A wedding day, when two surnames appear together for the very first time, is one of them. So is a silver or golden anniversary, when the years themselves have become the story worth marking. This clock has been commissioned for couples moving into their first shared home, for family reunions where heritage is the whole reason for gathering, and for parents whose children wanted to give them something that could not simply be bought off a shelf. Because every detail — the crests, the names, the inscription — is chosen by you and made for the people who will receive it, the clock arrives already carrying meaning. That is not something that can be manufactured. It can only be made.