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.
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