Ugears Aero Clock

The time has actually come! For several years, we've been hearing the very same concern once again and once again from our faithful clients: "Can Ugears develop a working clock model set, one that really keeps accurate time?" A working mechanical wooden clock has actually long been our #1 "most-requested" new design. Your dream has actually also been our dream, and our group of dedicated Ugears engineers and designers has actually been working hard to bring this shared dream into truth. Finally, the wait is over. Ugears is proud to present the Aero Clock, a fully-functioning do it yourself wall clock with a pendulum.

The Aero Clock isn't simply a 3D wooden mechanical model or a pretty masterpiece. The Ugears Clock is a real working clock that you can build yourself, install to a wall, end up, then see as the seconds, minutes, and hours tick by. The Aero Clock is an ingenious puzzle and do it yourself clock system, unlike any other clock. It is a lovely piece of exact engineering that reveals the workings of a weighted pendulum clock to home builders and audiences alike. Like all Ugears models, it also has that extra touch of whimsy, to captivate and charm our growing legion of fans.

This simple-yet-elegant Ugears clock is driven by the force of gravity taking down a weighted bag (you can fill the bag with sand or salt). Raise the bag on its sheaves to wind the clock. As the weight slowly comes down, it rotates a drive equipment, which then rotates an escape wheel through a reducer. The clock features an adjustable weighted pendulum that communicates with the escape wheel through the steady tick-tock of the anchor system. You can adjust the clock's ticking action to the 2nd, by moving the pendulum's leading and bottom weights. The reducer also transfers rotation to an hour disc and a minute disc. One of the interesting functions of our Aero Clock is that time is not read with turning hands on a clock face, however rather a fixed tip indicates time on the slowly-rotating, numbered hour and minute discs. Additionally, these discs turn counterclockwise—did you understand that before standardization, some clocks moved clockwise while others moved counterclockwise? In the function of "cuckoo,” the Ugears Aero Clock features a model hot air balloon. The suspended balloon quickly comes down when the hour strikes, then slowly rises once again throughout the next hour.

The theme of the Aero Clock is early aeronautics. Travel back in time to the dawn of flight and the "balloon-mania" that seized France and England in 1783 on the occasion of the very first free aerial voyage in a balloon. This was followed two years later by the very first aerial crossing of the English Channel by intrepid aeronauts Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. We like this wooden model clock's steampunk sensibility and spirit of adventure, and we think you will too! Picture yourself an innovator of new horizons and a conqueror of the 4 winds. The case and interesting wooden clock system represent an airbase situated amongst the clouds, where breezes blow and filtered rays of sunlight dapple the machinery, while you, in the function of aeronaut, launch a brand-new voyage of exploration on the hour.

The Ugears wooden model clock set celebrates the function of clocks in exploration. Did you understand the problem of calculating longitude, critical to accurate navigation at sea, was solved with a clock? The concept was proposed by Dutch mathematician Gemma Frisius in 1530, however it wasn't until the mid-18th century when English clockmaker John Harrison established a series of shipboard clocks so exact (accurate to within a ? of a 2nd each day) that deliver captains could, at last, determine their position at sea to within a few nautical miles. By knowing the exact time back in London (Greenwich Meridian Time, or GMT), and calculating the time at existing position with celestial observation, navigators might determine where they were on the earth's surface. Latitude had been solved by the Phoenicians as early as 600 B.C. with celestial numeration—measuring the elevation of the sun at noon, or the angle made between the North Star (or other navigational stars) and the horizon. However the longitude problem would bedevil explorers for another 2,000 years. Harrison was eventually granted the £20,000 very first reward (approximately $1.5 million today) developed in Parliament's Longitude Act of 1714, after showing the precision of his masterful clocks at sea. Now you too can become a clockmaker, with the Ugears Aero Clock model kit!

Released at a moment when the world appears to have decreased, the Ugears Aero Clock, a wood wall clock with a pendulum that you build yourself, is both time-full and timeless in its easy beauty. This gorgeous and practical wooden wall clock model is for horologists, for enthusiasts, for explorers, for creatives and romantics of every stripe, anyone who is prepared for new obstacles and prepared to take dangers. If you have actually ever gazed up at the sky and idea, "I wish to exist!" or took a look at a pendulum clock and questioned, "How does that work?" then the Ugears Aero Clock is for you.

As you build the Aero Clock, a wood wall clock with a pendulum, you will learn the standard concepts behind clockworks, how the steadying influence of a swinging pendulum runs through a rocking anchor, locking and unlocking the equipments on an escapement one second at a time, thus managing the (sluggish) descent of a weight as it drives both power equipments and timekeeping gears.

The Ugears' Aero Clock with a pendulum is a splendid puzzle and the perfect family task. When you work together to assemble this do it yourself wooden clock model set, you will experience the satisfaction of structure something together and not simply any model, however a real working watch. Afterward, you'll have a beautiful object for the home, something your family can take pleasure in together as time goes by.

The Ugears Aero Clock with a pendulum is a brand-new and exciting addition to the Ugears collection of remarkable mechanical models, 3D puzzles, game devices, wooden puzzle boxes, children's toys, and education STEM Lab model kits.

Model Size: 29.5 x 18.5 x 6.5 in
Plan size: 14.9 x 6.7 x 2.0 in
Variety of parts: 320
Level: Hard
Assembly Time: 11 hours
Recommended Age: 14+
Package weight: 3.00 lbs

Manufacturer: UGears