If you desire to buy antique clocks we would like to propose them to you. In the XXI century not only aristocratic people can get it but it became also an avocation of average persons.

Clockmakers and the first mantelpiece clocks appeared in the Middle ages when the Renaissance epoch begun. Clocks were created of iron and were wound with the assistance of weight. The first mantel clocks were alike to tower clocks. They had the same layout and components.

In the Gothic epoch clocks were inserted walls' consoles. Later on a wooden console became a part of clocks' frame and was mounted the same style and ornament as clocks had. 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 design composition that was adhered to the fashion of an epoch. A few centuries later appeared clock masters. They tried to give beautiful appearance to each clock they created. We can mark out such remarkable people as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann. They made real artworks and at that time they were unequalled clocks that had no analogs on Earth. But in the XVIII century different clock masters began to copy the models of the most remarkable clocks.

Mantel and desktop clocks have different types of form. The form of clocks depended on the artistic taste and aim of clocks. And when the Baroque epoch began specific shapes of the clocks' frame appeared. Great influence of the church was reflected on the applying of Christian symbols. The cross and ciborium forms were used for some clocks. You can select among a large number of diverse old antique mantel clocks, even antique long case clocks that are represented on our website.

Floor clocks often separated to the independent kind of clocks. Different epochs left their impresses on the shapes and forms of this kind of clocks. This kind of clocks emerged in 1650-1660 and after two hundred years they were continued to produce and saved their permanent elements of style. The specificity of the structure made this kind of clocks of an amazing height. 270 centimeters was a normal height for such clocks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Age-old clocks were considerably lower.

The pointer of the age of the floor clocks can be the design of the cabinet. But sometimes you may see the clocks of the nineteenth century that are similar to clocks of the earlier periods. It happens because clock masters went back to the designs of previous centuries. The glabrous and slender cabinet is the peculiarity of the first period of clock production. The cabinet was done with widened base and was crowned with lucerne on the top with the glazed clock dial. The middle part of the cabinet was made so that the space for pendulum was left. The surface of the cabinet often reminded ebony. It was achieved due to the saturation with oil.

Oak was widespread on the European continent. It was a great and rather cheap stuff that is appropriate not only for carcasses of the clocks' cabinets but also as veneer. Provincial clockmakers made cheap clocks and revered them with soft timber that has a look of marble. You can also get German antique clocks on our web site.