Nowadays one may get antique clocks almost in every antique shop. Collecting of antique clocks is usually an avocation for successful persons.

Clockmakers and the first mantel clocks appeared in the XIV and XV centuries when the Renaissance period begun. The first material for them was iron and the winding mechanism of such clocks was founded on weights. The very first mantel clocks were alike to tower clocks. They had the same layout and elements.

People applied wall's consoles to insert there clocks in the Gothic epoch. Centuries later timber console became the element of the clocks' frame. The style of it conformed to the whole design of the clock. Of course, in the Renaissance epoch and later it was 1 of the most significant parts of a room's decoration. In every apartment clocks played an important role. They were an element of the stylistic ensemble that was stuck to the fashion of an epoch. The most prominent asters of applied art such as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann, also worked over the artistic appearance of the clocks. They worked on their own models and made clocks in the unique exemplars. But in the XVIII century diverse clockmakers began to copy the prototypes of the most beautiful clocks.

There are different shapes that mantel and desktop clocks have. The shape of clocks depended on the artistic taste and aim of clocks. With the Baroque epoch appeared fretted components and other beauties on the face of clocks. With the increasing of the impact of the church on life of people, various Christian symbols emerged on clocks. The most famous emblems were the cross and ciborium that was applied as the shape of some clocks. You may select among a great amount of different antique mantel clocks, even antique clock stores that are represented on our internet source.

One more independent group of clocks is floor clocks. Diverse epochs left their impresses on the shapes and forms of this type of clocks. This kind of clocks appeared in the XVII and after two hundred years they were kept on production and saved their permanent elements of style. These clocks were really high, that was a peculiarity of their construction. In XVIII and XIX centuries the height was approximately 270 centimeters. The very first exemplars of floor clocks were one hundred and sixty centimeters height.

The pointer of the age of the floor clocks may be the architecture of the cabinet. But sometimes you can see the clocks of the nineteenth century that are similar to clocks of the earlier times. It happens because clockmakers went back to the styles of preceding centuries. The smooth and slim cabinet is the peculiarity of the earliest period of clock production. The cabinet was made with widened foundation and was crowned with lucerne on the top with the glassed-in clock dial. The central part of the cabinet was done so that the space for pendulum was left. The surface of the cabinet often reminded ebony. It was achieved due to the impregnation with oil.

In Europe the most popular material for clocks was oak. It was used for its low price and solidity. Clockmakers made from it carcasses and plywood for clocks. Cheap floor clocks were made by provincial clock masters and were revered with soft wood that was similar with marble. But we may also propose you antique German wall clocks.