Today you may get antique clocks almost in every antique shop. Collecting of antique clocks is mostly a hobby for rich persons.

The first steps in creating mantel clocks were found in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The first stuff for clocks was iron and the winding mechanism of such clocks was based on weights. The first mantel clocks were alike to tower clocks. They had the same layout and elements.

In the XV century period clocks were inserted walls' consoles. Wooden console became a component of the body of clocks after a few centuries and it was stylized to the entire clocks ensemble. Of course, in the Renaissance epoch and later it was one of the most important parts of a room's style. Every home adhered to the trend that was fashionable during the age and a clock was a part of the whole design ensemble 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 worked on their personal models and created clocks in the unique prototypes. Only at the end of the XVIII century the copies of the most remarkable models were found.

Mantelpiece and desktop clocks have different types of form. Artistic taste and purpose of clocks ordered the form to a clockmaker. With the Baroque epoch revealed fretted components and other beauties on the face of clocks. With the augmenting of the influence of the church on dwelling of people, various Christian emblems appeared on clocks. The most famous emblems were the cross and ciborium that was applied as the form of some clocks. You can select among a large amount of diverse antique mantel clocks, even antique clock guide that are represented on our page.

Floor clocks often detached to the independent group of clocks. Different centuries left their traces on the shapes and forms of this type of clocks. The first clocks were made approximately in 1650-1660. And still clock masters create them keep up their permanent components of design. These clocks were very high, that was a peculiarity of their construction. The height of such clocks reached tow hundred and seventy centimeters in the XVIII and XIX centuries. The first models of floor clocks were one hundred and sixty centimeters height.

The style of the cabinet shows the age when this or that clock were made. But exactly in the XIX century some producers borrowed or reproduced the old elements for floor clocks of earlier centuries. The earliest periods of clock production are notable for smooth and slim cabinets of clocks. It contained widened base and lucerne for the device on the top with the glazed clock dial. The middle part of such cabinet was a carcass to make a space for pendulum. The surface of the cabinet usually resembled ebony. It was reached owing to the saturation with oils.

Oak was widespread on the European continent. It was a low-priced and firm stuff for clocks and it was applied not only for carcasses but also for plywood making. Provincial cheap clocks were made of soft timber. The clockmakers gave them an appearance of marble facing. You can also purchase antique German wall clocks on our web site.