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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.

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