Today a lots of web sites offer antique clocks for sale. In the XXI century not only successful persons may buy it but it became also an avocation of average persons.

On the bridge of the XIV and XV centuries mantel and room clocks began often to be found. They were made of iron and were wound with the help of weight. The very first mantel clocks were similar to tower clocks. They had the same scheme and components.

In the Middle ages people used walls' consoles where clocks were situated. Timber console became a part of the frame of clocks after a few centuries and it was stylized to the whole clocks ensemble. In aristocratic homes it was 1 of the decor components of a room. In each apartment clocks played a significant role. They were an element of the design composition that was adhered to the fashion of an epoch. Several centuries later appeared clock masters. They tried to give face to every clock they made. We may mark out such notable people as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann. They created real works of art and at that time they were unique exemplars that had no analogues in the world. But in the eighteenth century different clockmakers began to remake the models of the most beautiful clocks.

There are diverse forms that mantelpiece and desktop clocks have. The form of clocks depended on the artistic taste and purpose of clocks. With the Baroque epoch revealed carved elements and other beauties on the facing of clocks. Christian emblems were also used when the influence of the church on social life became stronger. The cross and ciborium forms were applied for some clocks. Our company can offer you different types of old antique mantel clocks, even antique wall clocks r & s.

One more independent kind of clocks is floor clocks. The functional and design components of diverse epochs have been reflected on clocks' shape and form. This kind of clocks emerged in the XVII and after two hundred years they were kept on production and preserved their permanent components of design. The height of these clocks was very great. 270 centimeters was a normal height for these clocks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The very first exemplars of floor clocks were one hundred and sixty centimeters height.

The pointer of the age of the floor clocks can be the architecture of the cabinet. But sometimes you may find 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. For the first period of floor clocks the smooth and slim cabinet is typical. It included wide foundation and lucerne for the device on the top with the glassed-in clock dial plate. The middle section of such cabinet was a carcass to make a space for pendulum. The surface of this cabinet was impregnated with oils and had a color of ebony.

In Europe the most widespread material for clocks was oak. It was a good and rather low-priced stuff that is appropriate not only for frames of the clocks' cabinets but also as plywood. Provincial cheap clocks were made of soft wood. The clockmakers gave them a look of marble facing. But we can also suggest you antique German clocks.