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On the bridge of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries mantelpiece and room clocks began often to be found. Iron was the stuff for such clocks at that time and they were wound with the help of loads. The layout and components were similar to usual tower clocks the same as the look.

In the Gothic epoch clocks were put in walls' consoles. Centuries later timber console appeared as the element of the clocks' frame. The style of it conformed to the whole style of the clock. Room clocks played an important role in the furniture of a room. They were a component of the entire interior composition where all the particulars had to be done due to the dominating fashion of the epoch. The most prominent asters of applied art such as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann, also developed the artistic view of their clocks. They worked on their own models and created clocks in the unique exemplars. In the eighteenth century appeared clockmakers that began to create remakes from the most wonderful clocks they saw.

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