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Today a lot of web pages suggest antique clocks. You may see that this is a kind of hobby for successful persons.

The first steps in creating mantel clocks were found in the XIV and XV centuries. Iron was the material for such clocks at those times and they were wound with the assistance of weights. Firstly they didn't vary from tower clocks by their layout and construction components.

In the XV century people applied walls' consoles where clocks were situated. Later on a wood corbel became a part of clocks' frame and was mounted the same style and ornament as clocks had. Room clocks played an important role in the furniture of a room. They were a component of the entire decoration ensemble where all the particulars had to be done due to the dominating fashion of the epoch. Later on professional clock masters appeared. Such persons as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann began to work over the appearance of their clocks. They worked over their personal models and created clocks in the unequalled prototypes. But in the eighteenth century diverse clockmakers began to remake the prototypes of the most remarkable clocks.