Georg Jensen Koppel Alarm Clock with Holder

Last updated: 2 October 2026

The object

A polished stainless steel ring, deep enough to stand on its own edge, with the dial set back inside it so the case throws a shadow across the face. The markers are plain dots. The hands are black, thin and unlettered, apart from the blue second hand, which is the only colour anywhere on it and the reason the clock reads as a piece of design rather than an office fitting.

The stand is a small moulded foot that clips onto the bottom of the case and tips it back about ten degrees. Georg Jensen sells the same holder on its own for £20 in ABS plastic, so the version with it included is worth having rather than buying the parts separately.

Where to buy it, and what it costs

Prices sit in a £5 band and availability is the thing that actually varies. Checked on 6 September 2026:

Salts Mill is the cheapest and it has them, so that is the button at the top of this page. Georg Jensen is £5 more, ships from the brand and gift-wraps, which is worth the difference if it is a present. Two of the four stockists we checked were out, so if you find it in stock somewhere else at £110, that is a normal price rather than a bad one.

Make sure it is this one

Georg Jensen sells four Koppel clocks and instruments in this 10cm family and they look alike in a search result. This page is about the 10cm clock with an alarm and the holder in the box. The others you will run into:

• The 10cm thermometer with a white dial, £100, which is not a clock at all.
• The holder on its own, £20, ABS plastic.
• Larger Koppel wall clocks, which have no alarm and no stand.

The tell is the wording. Georg Jensen calls this one "KOPPEL CLOCK w. Alarm and Holder-White, 10cm", and its page says plainly that the stand is included. If a listing is at a similar price but does not mention the alarm or the holder, it is one of the others.

Specification

Henning Koppel, and why the name is on it

Koppel is one of the two or three designers who turned Georg Jensen from a silversmith into a modernist company. Georg Jensen gives his dates as 1918 to 1981, though some silver reference sources put them a year either side. He trained as a sculptor, spent the war years in Sweden after leaving occupied Denmark, and joined Georg Jensen on his return in his twenties.

What he did there was drag silver away from ornament. His hollowware is smooth, asymmetric and organic, closer to Arp or Calder than to anything a silversmith had been making, and it is why the phrase "Danish modern" means what it means. The Caravel cutlery of 1957 is still in production. The vessel known as the 1041, made for the firm's fiftieth anniversary in 1954, was destroyed by Koppel himself because it did not satisfy him, and Georg Jensen only reissued it decades later for his centenary. He won the Lunning Prize, the Scandinavian design award of the period, in 1953.

He also designed clocks and lighting for Louis Poulsen, which is the lineage this alarm clock belongs to. It is a late piece, from 1978, and the restraint in it is the same restraint as the silver: no numerals, no branding on the face beyond the maker's name, one moving part in colour.

Living with it

It is a mechanical-looking object with a quartz movement, so it keeps time properly and it does not need winding. The alarm is a beep rather than a bell. There is no light, no snooze display and no radio, and if you want any of that this is the wrong clock.

What it does do is sit on a bedside table without looking like a gadget, which is the argument for a £105 clock in a world of £15 ones. If you want the same job done with sound design and a sunrise, the site has a page on the Loftie alarm clock, which is a very different answer to the same question.

Frequently asked questions

How much is the Koppel alarm clock?

£105 at Salts Mill Shop and £110 from Georg Jensen UK, both checked on 6 September 2026.

Does the holder come with it?

Yes. Georg Jensen's page states that the stand is included. The same holder on its own is £20.

Is it battery powered?

Yes, it runs a precision quartz movement. Blomster Designs lists three LR03 AAA cells; Georg Jensen does not publish a battery spec.

When was it designed?

Henning Koppel designed it in 1978, and Georg Jensen relaunched it in 2011.

Is it on Amazon UK?

No. There was no Amazon UK listing for it when we checked on 6 September 2026.

How big is it?

100mm across, and 4.4cm deep according to Blomster Designs.

Sources

• Georg Jensen UK: price, stock, materials, movement and the confirmation that the stand is included.
• Salts Mill Shop: the £105 price, the 100mm diameter and the 1978 and 2011 dates.
• Georg Jensen on Henning Koppel: his dates and the story of the 1041.
• Jensen Silver's Koppel biography: the training, the war years, Caravel and the Lunning Prize.

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