Nowadays one may get antique clocks almost in every antique store. Collecting of antique clocks is mostly an avocation for rich persons.
The very first strides in creating mantel clocks were found in the XIV and XV centuries. Clocks were created of iron and were wound with the help of weight. Firstly they didn't vary from tower clocks by their layout and structure components.
People applied wall's consoles to put in clocks in the fifteenth century. Later on a wooden corbel became a part of clocks' body and was mounted the similar style and ornament as clocks had. In rich houses it was 1 of the decor components of premises. They were a part of the whole interior composition where all the details had to be done due to the major style of the epoch. The most prominent clock masters of applied art such as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann, also worked over the artistic view of the clocks. They created real works of art and at that time they were unique clocks that had no analogues in the world. In the eighteenth century appeared clockmakers that began to make copies from the most marvelous clocks they saw.