Today you can purchase antique clocks almost in any antique shop. You may find that this is a type of hobby for rich people.

The very first strides in creating mantel clocks were found in the XIV and XV centuries. Iron was the material for such clocks at that time and they were wound with the help of loads. The scheme 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 became the element of the clocks' frame. The style of it conformed to the whole design of the clock. In aristocratic houses it was one of the decor components of a room. In every house clocks played an important role. They were an element of the stylistic composition that was adhered to the fashion of an age. The most notable asters of applied art such as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann, also developed the artistic appearance of their clocks. They worked on their own models and made clocks in the unique prototypes. Only at the end of the XVIII century the copies of the most remarkable models were found.

There are diverse forms that mantelpiece and desktop clocks have. It depended on the artistic taste and aim. With the Baroque epoch revealed fretted components and other beauties on the face of clocks. Christian emblems were also applied when the influence of the church on people's life increased. The cross and ciborium shapes were used for some clocks. Our firm would like to propose to you diverse kinds of antique mantel clocks, even antique jewel tea clock.

Floor clocks often separated to the independent group of clocks. This type of clocks experienced different designs and forms of the epochs when they were made. The first clocks were made approximately in 1650-1660. And still clock masters make them supporting their permanent elements of design. These clocks were very high, that was a peculiarity of their structure. In eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the height was near two hundred and seventy centimeters. The earliest clocks were considerably lower.

The pointer of the age of the floor clocks can be the design of the cabinet. But the XIX century was the period of time when clockmakers returned to design of the previous centuries. The first periods of clock production are remarkable for smooth and slender cabinets of clocks. The cabinet was done with wide foundation and was crowned with lucerne on the top with the glassed-in clock dial plate. The midst part of such cabinet was a carcass to make a space for pendulum. Clockmakers saturated the surface of the cabinet with oil and then it looked like ebony.

Oak was widespread on the European continent. It was a low-priced and solid material for clocks and it was used not only for carcasses but also for plywood making. Provincial clock masters made cheap products and faced them with soft timber that has an appearance of marble. But we would like to also propose you antique German wall clocks.