Today one may purchase antique clocks almost in any antique store. You can see that this is a kind of avocation for rich people.

The very first steps in creating mantel clocks were found in the XIV and XV centuries. The first stuff for clocks was iron and the winding system of such clocks was based on weights. The layout and components were similar to average tower clocks the same as the appearance.

In the Gothic epoch clocks were put in walls' consoles. Wooden console became a component of the frame of clocks after several centuries and it was stylized to the whole clocks ensemble. In rich homes it was 1 of the decor components of a room. Every house adhered to the style that was fashionable during the age and a clock was an element of the entire design composition of the house. The most prominent asters of applied art such as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann, also worked over the artistic appearance of their clocks. They created real artworks and at that time they were unequalled exemplars that had no analogues on Earth. Only at the end of the eighteenth century the remakes of the most notable exemplars were found.

Mantelpiece and desktop clocks have various kinds of shape. The form of clocks depended on the artistic taste and purpose of clocks. And when the Baroque epoch came particular shapes of the clocks' body appeared. Christian emblems were also applied when the influence of the church on social life became stronger. The most significant were clocks in the form of the cross and ciborium. You will select among a great amount of different old antique mantel clocks, even antique paper clock faces that are presented on our website.

Floor clocks create independent group of clocks. The functional and design components of different epochs have been reflected on their shape and form. Clock masters started to make them in the middle of the XVII century and today they are still done due to their design features. These clocks were really high, that was a peculiarity of their construction. In eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the height was near 270 centimeters. The first floor clocks were lower.

The indicator of the age of the floor clocks may be the architecture of the cabinet. But sometimes you may find the clocks of the nineteenth century that are similar to clocks of the earlier periods. It occurs because clock masters went back to the styles of previous ages. The smooth and slim cabinet is the peculiarity of the earliest period of clock production. The cabinet was done with wide base and was crowned with lucerne on the top with the glazed clock dial. The widened section of the cabinet was made for extra space for pendulum. The face of the cabinet often reminded ebony. It was reached owing to the saturation with oil.

In Europe oak was rather spread. It was a low-priced and firm stuff for clocks and it was used not only for frames but also for veneer making. Provincial clock masters made cheap products and faced them with soft wood that has a look of marble. But we can also suggest you antique German wall clocks.

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