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.

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