Ugears Aero Clock

The time has come! For many years, we've been hearing the exact same question again and again from our faithful consumers: "Can Ugears develop a working clock model package, one that in fact keeps accurate time?" A working mechanical wooden clock has long been our #1 "most-requested" new design. 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 happy to present the Aero Clock, a fully-functioning DIY wall clock with a pendulum.

The Aero Clock isn't simply a 3D wooden mechanical model or a quite showpiece. The Ugears Clock is an actual working clock that you can construct yourself, install to a wall, end up, then watch as the seconds, minutes, and hours tick by. The Aero Clock is an ingenious puzzle and DIY clock system, unlike any other clock. It is a lovely piece of accurate engineering that reveals the functions of a weighted pendulum clock to contractors and audiences alike. Like all Ugears models, it also has that additional touch of whimsy, to captivate 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 pulleys to wind the clock. As the weight slowly comes down, it turns a drive equipment, which then turns an escape wheel through a reducer. The clock includes an adjustable weighted pendulum that interacts with the escape wheel through the consistent 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 transmits rotation to an hour disc and a minute disc. One of the interesting features of our Aero Clock is that time is not read with turning hands on a clock face, but rather a fixed guideline shows time on the slowly-rotating, numbered hour and minute discs. Furthermore, these discs turn counterclockwise—did you know 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 quickly comes down when the hour strikes, then slowly increases 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 took France and England in 1783 on the event of the first free aerial trip in a balloon. This was followed two years later by the first aerial crossing of the English Channel by intrepid aeronauts Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. We enjoy this wooden model clock's steampunk sensibility and spirit of experience, and we think you will too! Envision yourself a discoverer of new horizons and a conqueror of the four winds. The housing and intriguing wooden clock system represent an airbase located amongst the clouds, where breezes blow and filtered rays of sunshine dapple the machinery, while you, in the role of aeronaut, launch a brand-new trip of expedition on the hour.

The Ugears wooden model clock package commemorates the role of clocks in expedition. Did you know the issue of calculating longitude, vital to accurate navigation at sea, was fixed with a clock? The concept was proposed by Dutch mathematician Gemma Frisius in 1530, but it wasn't till the mid-18th century when English clockmaker John Harrison established a series of shipboard clocks so accurate (accurate to within a ? of a second per day) that deliver captains could, at last, determine their position at sea to within a few nautical miles. By knowing the specific time back in London (Greenwich Meridian Time, or GMT), and calculating the time at present position with celestial observation, navigators could determine where they were on the earth's surface area. Latitude had actually been fixed by the Phoenicians as early as 600 B.C. with celestial numeration—measuring 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 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 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 construct yourself, is both time-full and ageless in its easy elegance. This stunning and practical wooden wall clock model is for horologists, for hobbyists, for explorers, for creatives and romantics of every stripe, anybody who is prepared for new challenges and prepared to take threats. If you've ever gazed up at the sky and idea, "I wish to exist!" or looked at a pendulum clock and wondered, "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 discover the fundamental principles behind clockworks, how the steadying influence of a swinging pendulum runs through a rocking anchor, locking and opening the equipments on an escapement one second at a time, thus regulating 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 household project. When you collaborate to assemble this DIY wooden clock model package, you will experience the fulfillment of building something together and not simply any model, but an actual functioning watch. Afterward, you'll have a gorgeous object 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 amazing addition to the Ugears collection of interesting mechanical models, 3D puzzles, video game accessories, wooden puzzle boxes, children's toys, and education STEM Lab model kits.

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

Manufacturer: UGears