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.

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