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.

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