If you desire to buy antique clocks our company can suggest them to you. Collecting of ancient clocks is mostly a hobby for rich people.

On the turn of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries mantelpiece and room clocks began usually to be found. The first material for them was iron and the winding mechanism of such clocks was founded on loads. The scheme and components were similar to usual tower clocks the same as the look.

In the Gothic epoch clocks were inserted walls' consoles. Later on a wooden corbel became a part of clocks' body and was mounted the same style and ornament as clocks had. Of course, in the Renaissance epoch and later it was one of the most significant parts of a room's style. Every house stuck to the trend that was fashionable during the epoch and a clock was an element of the entire design composition of the house. Later on professional clockmakers appeared. Such persons as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann began to work over the appearance of their clocks. They created real artworks and at that time they were unequalled clocks that had no analogues in the world. In the eighteenth century appeared clock masters that began to create remakes from the most marvelous clocks they saw.

Mantelpiece and desktop clocks have different kinds of form. Artistic taste and purpose of clocks dictated the form to a master. For example fretted components revealed with the beginning of Baroque epoch. Christian symbols were also applied when the influence of the church on people's life increased. The cross and ciborium shapes were used for some clocks. You can choose among a great number of various antique brass mantel clocks, even antique mantel clocks that are presented on our website.

Floor clocks often separated to the independent group of clocks. This kind of clocks experienced different designs and forms of the epochs when they were made. The first clocks were done near 1650-1660. And still clockmakers create them supporting their permanent elements of design. The peculiarity of the structure made this type of clocks of an amazing height. The height of these clocks reached 270 centimeters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The earliest floor clocks were lower.

The pointer of the age of the floor clocks can be the design of the cabinet. But the nineteenth century was the period of time when clock masters returned to styles of the previous centuries. For the earliest period of floor clocks the smooth and slim cabinet is usual. It contained wide foundation and lucerne for the mechanism on the top with the glassed-in clock dial. The wide section of the cabinet was made for additional space for pendulum. Clockmakers impregnated the surface of the cabinet with oil and then it looked like ebony.

Oak was spread in Europe. It was a cheap and solid stuff for clocks and it was applied not only for frames but also for veneer making. Provincial clock masters made cheap clocks and faced them with soft wood that has a look of marble. Our company also proposes you to purchase antique German clocks.