Nowadays one can purchase antique clocks for sale almost in every antique shop. In the XXI century not only rich people may get it but it became also an avocation of average people.

On the turn of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries mantel and room clocks began usually to be found. Clocks were created of iron and were wound with the help of load. The scheme and components were similar to usual tower clocks the same as the look.

People used wall's consoles to put in clocks in the Gothic epoch. Centuries later wooden corbel became the element of the clocks' frame. The style of it corresponded to the entire style of the clock. Of course, in the Renaissance epoch and later it was 1 of the most significant parts of a room's style. In every house clocks played an important role. They were a part of the design ensemble that was adhered to the fashion of an epoch. The most notable asters of applied art such as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann, also developed the artistic view of their clocks. They made real works of art and at that time they were unequalled clocks that had no analogs in the world. But in the eighteenth century different clock masters began to copy the prototypes of the most beautiful clocks.

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