Ancient Westminster Longcase Clock
Nowadays you may buy antique clocks for sale almost in every antique shop. Collecting of antique clocks is mostly a hobby for rich persons.
The very first strides in creating mantel clocks were found in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The first material for clocks was iron and the winding mechanism of such clocks was founded on weights. Firstly they didn't differ from tower clocks by their scheme and structure components.
In the Gothic epoch clocks were put in walls' consoles. Years later wooden corbel appeared as the element of the clocks' body. The style of it corresponded to the whole style of the clock. Indoor clocks played an important role in the furniture of premises. In each apartment clocks played an important role. They were an element of the stylistic composition that was stuck to the fashion of an epoch. Later on professional clockmakers appeared. Such persons as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann began to work over the view of the clocks. They created real works of art and at that time they were unequalled exemplars that had no analogs in the world. But in the XVIII century different clockmakers began to copy the prototypes of the most remarkable clocks.