Posted on Monday 30 June 2008
Today one can purchase antique clocks almost in any antique shop. Collecting of antique clocks is mostly a hobby for rich people.
On the turn of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries mantelpiece and room clocks began often to be found. The first material for clocks was iron and the winding system of such clocks was founded on weights. The layout and components were similar to usual tower clocks the same as the look.
In the XV century period clocks were inserted walls' consoles. Centuries later wooden console appeared as the element of the clocks' body. The style of it conformed to the entire design of the clock. Room clocks played an important role in the decoration of a room. In every house clocks played an important role. They were a part of the stylistic composition that was adhered to the fashion of an age. Later on professional clock masters appeared. Such persons as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann started to work over the view of their clocks. Their clocks were really magnificent and there were no analogues in the world. But in the eighteenth century diverse clockmakers began to copy the prototypes of the most remarkable clocks.