Ugears Aero Clock

The time has come! For many years, we've been hearing the exact same question once again and once again from our loyal clients: "Can Ugears develop a working clock design set, one that actually keeps precise time?" A working mechanical wood clock has long been our #1 "most-requested" new style. Your dream has also been our dream, and our group of dedicated Ugears engineers and designers has been striving to bring this shared dream into truth. Lastly, 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 just a 3D wood mechanical design or a pretty masterpiece. The Ugears Clock is an actual working clock that you can build yourself, mount to a wall, end up, then see as the seconds, minutes, and hours tick by. The Aero Clock is an innovative puzzle and do it yourself clock system, unlike any other clock. It is a lovely piece of accurate engineering that exposes the workings of a weighted pendulum clock to home builders and viewers alike. Like all Ugears designs, 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 pulling down a weighted bag (you can fill the bag with sand or salt). Raise the bag on its pulleys to wind the clock. As the weight gradually comes down, it turns a drive gear, which then turns an escape wheel through a reducer. The clock includes an adjustable weighted pendulum that engages with the escape wheel through the constant tick-tock of the anchor system. You can change the clock's ticking action to the 2nd, by moving the pendulum's leading and bottom weights. The reducer also sends rotation to an hour disc and a minute disc. Among the fascinating features of our Aero Clock is that time is not check out with turning hands on a clock face, but rather a fixed tip shows 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 role of "cuckoo,” the Ugears Aero Clock includes a design hot air balloon. The suspended balloon quickly comes down when the hour strikes, then gradually rises once again over the course of the next hour.

The theme of the Aero Clock is early aeronautics. Take a trip back in time to the dawn of flight and the "balloon-mania" that took France and England in 1783 on the occasion of the first complimentary aerial trip in a balloon. This was followed two years later on by the first aerial crossing of the English Channel by intrepid aeronauts Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. We like this wood design clock's steampunk perceptiveness and spirit of experience, and we think you will too! Envision yourself an innovator of new horizons and a conqueror of the 4 winds. The casing and interesting wood clock system represent an airbase situated amongst the clouds, where breezes blow and filtered rays of sunlight dapple the machinery, while you, in the role of aeronaut, launch a brand-new trip of expedition on the hour.

The Ugears wood design clock set celebrates the role of clocks in expedition. Did you understand the problem of determining longitude, critical to precise navigation at sea, was resolved with a clock? The concept was proposed by Dutch mathematician Gemma Frisius in 1530, but it wasn't up until the mid-18th century when English clockmaker John Harrison developed a series of shipboard clocks so accurate (precise to within a ? of a second daily) that ship captains could, at last, calculate their position at sea to within a couple of nautical miles. By knowing the specific time back in London (Greenwich Meridian Time, or GMT), and determining the time at existing position with celestial observation, navigators might calculate where they were on the earth's surface area. Latitude had actually been resolved by the Phoenicians as early as 600 B.C. with celestial numeration—determining the elevation of the sun at twelve noon, or the angle made between the North Star (or other navigational stars) and the horizon. But the longitude problem would bedevil explorers for another 2,000 years. Harrison was eventually granted the £20,000 first reward (roughly $1.5 million today) developed in Parliament's Longitude Act of 1714, after demonstrating the accuracy of his skillful clocks at sea. Now you too can end up being a clockmaker, with the Ugears Aero Clock design kit!

Released at a minute when the world appears to have actually slowed down, the Ugears Aero Clock, a wooden wall clock with a pendulum that you build yourself, is both time-full and ageless in its basic sophistication. This lovely and practical wood wall clock design is for horologists, for hobbyists, for explorers, for creatives and romantics of every stripe, anybody who is all set for new difficulties and all set to take dangers. If you've ever looked up at the sky and idea, "I want to exist!" or took a look at a pendulum clock and wondered, "How does that work?" then the Ugears Aero Clock is for you.

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

The Ugears' Aero Clock with a pendulum is a splendid puzzle and the ideal household task. When you collaborate to assemble this do it yourself wood clock design set, you will experience the satisfaction of building something together and not just any design, but an actual operating wrist watch. Afterward, you'll have a stunning item for the house, something your household can enjoy together as time goes by.

The Ugears Aero Clock with a pendulum is a brand-new and interesting addition to the Ugears collection of remarkable mechanical designs, 3D puzzles, video game devices, wood puzzle boxes, kids's toys, and education STEM Laboratory design kits.

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

Manufacturer: UGears