Ugears Aero Clock

The time has actually come! For many years, we've been hearing the very same question again and again from our faithful consumers: "Can Ugears create a working clock model kit, one that actually keeps precise 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 team of dedicated Ugears engineers and designers has actually been striving to bring this shared dream into truth. Lastly, the wait is over. Ugears is proud to provide 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 quite masterpiece. The Ugears Clock is a real working clock that you can construct yourself, mount to a wall, wind up, then view as the seconds, minutes, and hours tick by. The Aero Clock is an ingenious puzzle and do it yourself clock mechanism, unlike any other clock. It is a beautiful piece of accurate engineering that exposes the workings of a weighted pendulum clock to contractors and audiences alike. Like all Ugears designs, it also has that additional touch of whimsy, to mesmerize and beauty 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 pulley-blocks 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 interacts with the escape wheel through the stable tick-tock of the anchor mechanism. You can adjust the clock's ticking action to the second, by sliding the pendulum's leading and bottom weights. The reducer also sends rotation to an hour disc and a minute disc. One of the fascinating functions of our Aero Clock is that time is not read with turning hands on a clock face, however rather a repaired pointer indicates time on the slowly-rotating, numbered hour and minute discs. Additionally, these discs turn counterclockwise—did you understand that prior to 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 rapidly comes down when the hour strikes, then gradually rises again throughout the next hour.

The style 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 very first totally free aerial trip in a balloon. This was followed two years later on by the very first aerial crossing of the English Channel by intrepid aeronauts Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. We love this wooden model clock's steampunk sensibility and spirit of experience, and we think you will too! Envision yourself an originator of new horizons and a conqueror of the 4 winds. The case and appealing wooden clock mechanism represent an airbase located amongst the clouds, where zephyrs blow and filtered rays of sunlight dapple the machinery, while you, in the role of aeronaut, launch a new trip of exploration on the hour.

The Ugears wooden model clock kit commemorates the role of clocks in exploration. Did you understand the issue of determining longitude, crucial to precise navigation at sea, was resolved 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 developed a series of shipboard clocks so accurate (precise to within a ? of a second daily) that ship captains could, at last, compute 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 could compute where they were on the earth's surface area. Latitude had been resolved by the Phoenicians as early as 600 B.C. with celestial numeration—determining the altitude of the sun at midday, or the angle made in between the North Star (or other navigational stars) and the horizon. However the longitude issue would bedevil explorers for another 2,000 years. Harrison was ultimately awarded the £20,000 very first prize (approximately $1.5 million today) established in Parliament's Longitude Act of 1714, after demonstrating the precision of his skillful clocks at sea. Now you too can end up being a clockmaker, with the Ugears Aero Clock model kit!

Released at a moment when the world seems to have slowed down, the Ugears Aero Clock, a wood wall clock with a pendulum that you construct yourself, is both time-full and ageless in its basic beauty. This gorgeous and functional wooden wall clock model is for horologists, for hobbyists, for explorers, for creatives and romantics of every stripe, anyone who is all set for new obstacles and all set to take dangers. If you've 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 construct the Aero Clock, a wood wall clock with a pendulum, you will learn the standard concepts behind clockworks, how the steadying impact of a swinging pendulum operates through a rocking anchor, locking and unlocking the gears on an escapement one second at a time, thus managing the (slow) 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 best family project. When you interact to assemble this do it yourself wooden clock model kit, you will experience the fulfillment of building something together and not simply any model, however a real working timepiece. Afterward, you'll have a stunning things for the home, something your family can take pleasure in together as time goes by.

The Ugears Aero Clock with a pendulum is a new and exciting addition to the Ugears collection of interesting mechanical designs, 3D puzzles, game devices, wooden puzzle boxes, kids's toys, and education STEM Laboratory model kits.

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

Manufacturer: UGears