Arne Jacobsen Clocks: Every Model and Size

Arne Jacobsen drew four wall-clock faces for Danish buildings, Station, Roman, City Hall and Bankers, plus a table alarm clock in 1939, and Rosendahl Design Group makes them today from his original drawings. The wall clocks come in five diameters, from 4.7 to 18.9 inches. Every table clock is 4.7 inches tall with a 4.3-inch dial. For most rooms, an 8.3- or 11.4-inch wall clock is the right size.

Which Arne Jacobsen clocks are there?

Five faces in two formats. Each face was drawn for a real building or client, and the names still say which.

Every face also comes as the 4.7-inch table alarm clock. Wall clocks: mineral glass lens, aluminum case and ABS. Table clocks: PMMA (acrylic) lens and ABS, on metal legs. All run on battery quartz movements. Sizes and materials from Rosendahl's US product pages and our product data.

Arne Jacobsen clock sizes, in inches and centimeters

Rosendahl names the wall sizes extra small to extra large. The diameter is the whole case, not just the dial, and the depth is how far the clock stands off the wall.

Which wall clock size should I buy?

Choose by how far away you'll read it and how much wall it has to hold. If you'll mostly read it from less than about 10 feet away, 8.3 inches is enough; across an open-plan room or above a sofa, step up to 11.4 inches.

• 4.7 in (Bankers only): a shelf, a desk, or a row with the Bankers weather instruments.
• 6.3 in: a hallway, a small kitchen or the space above a door.
• 8.3 in: the standard room size, for a kitchen, bedroom or home office.
• 11.4 in: a living room or open kitchen wall, or above a sideboard or desk.
• 18.9 in: a stairwell, a double-height wall or a long open room, where the clock is the main piece on the wall.

Before you order, cut a paper circle to the diameter and tape it up for a day. To group several faces, keep them to one size, so a Bankers, Station and Roman wall clock in a column read as a set, as in the photo at the top. Hang each clock on a single secure screw, away from direct sun, bathrooms and radiators.

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How do Station, Roman, Bankers and City Hall differ?

In the dial, and in the building each was drawn for. If you want a mid-century modern (MCM) wall clock that isn't a copy, these are the originals: drawn between 1939 and 1971 and recreated today from Jacobsen's drawings.

Station

Arabic numerals, made to be read at a glance. Jacobsen drew it in 1941 for Lauritz Knudsen, the Danish electrical maker known as LK, which wanted one clock for every kind of building, stations included.

Wall 6.3 to 18.9 in · table clock

Roman

Thin, widely spaced Roman numerals. It was made for Aarhus City Hall, where it still hangs on the nearly 200-foot marble tower; Rosendahl dates the design to 1942.

Wall 6.3 to 18.9 in · table clock

Bankers

Bar markers and a red center. Drawn in 1971 for Danmarks Nationalbank, the building Jacobsen designed as its architect.

Wall 4.7 to 18.9 in · table clock

City Hall is the plainest: markers only, no numerals. Jacobsen drew it for Rødovre Town Hall, completed in 1956 as his total design, and it comes as a wall clock in 6.5, 8.3 and 11.4 inches and as a table clock; it isn't available from Comosum right now. Rosendahl also puts the Bankers dial on a barometer, a thermometer and a hygrometer, each 4.7 inches across, to hang beside a Bankers wall clock.

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Is the Arne Jacobsen Station clock a train station clock?

In purpose, yes. When Lauritz Knudsen asked Jacobsen for a clock in 1941, it wanted one design for all kinds of buildings, stations included, and the name stuck. Today's Station clock is made for homes, with a glass lens in a slim aluminum case, as a wall clock in four sizes and as a table alarm clock. If you want the clean, numbered look of a station wall clock in a kitchen or office, this is the one.

Is there an Arne Jacobsen alarm clock?

Yes, and it's where the clocks began. Jacobsen drew the table clock in 1939, while designing a house for Lauritz Knudsen, the director of LK. Rosendahl now makes it with all five faces: the original LK, Station, Roman, Bankers and City Hall. Each one is 4.7 inches tall with a 4.3-inch dial and has an alarm you set with a third hand, a snooze, and a sensor on top that lights the dial in the dark. It runs on a battery, so there's no cord on the nightstand.

The Arne Jacobsen Station table clock is the easiest to read half-awake and comes in several colorways; Roman suits a more traditional bedroom; Bankers comes in white or dark gray; the LK is the 1939 original. On a desk, any of them works as a modern table clock with the alarm left off.

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Does an Arne Jacobsen clock tick, and what battery does it take?

Every Jacobsen clock runs on a battery quartz movement; nothing plugs in. Rosendahl's product pages don't say whether the second hand sweeps smoothly or steps each second, so we don't describe any of them as silent. The care notes on our product pages give an AA battery for the table clocks; on a wall clock, check the movement on the back before you buy a spare. Change the battery about once a year so an old one can't leak.

To clean one, wipe the case and lens with a dry, lint-free cloth, and skip water, glass cleaner and solvents.

Who makes Arne Jacobsen clocks today?

Rosendahl Design Group, the Danish group behind Kähler, Holmegaard and Lyngby, makes them under license and recreated them from Jacobsen's original drawings. The group is a Certified B Corp. Our product data lists China as the country of production for every Jacobsen clock we carry. The Sustainability Meter on this page scores the brand from published evidence; here's how we score brands, and what B Corp certification covers.

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For more Danish design, read our guide to Scandinavian sustainable furniture; for the table, our heirloom tableware guide covers Kähler, Holmegaard and Lyngby.

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