Ugears Aero Clock

The time has come! For many years, we've been hearing the very same concern again and again from our loyal clients: "Can Ugears create a working clock design kit, one that actually keeps accurate time?" A working mechanical wood clock has long been our #1 "most-requested" new design. Your dream has likewise been our dream, and our group of dedicated Ugears engineers and designers has been working hard to bring this shared dream into reality. 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 simply a 3D wood mechanical design or a pretty masterpiece. The Ugears Clock is a real working clock that you can build yourself, mount to a wall, wind 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 beautiful piece of precise engineering that exposes the operations of a weighted pendulum clock to contractors and viewers alike. Like all Ugears models, it likewise has that extra touch of whimsy, to mesmerize 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 pulley-blocks to wind the clock. As the weight gradually comes down, it rotates a drive gear, which then rotates an escape wheel through a reducer. The clock includes an adjustable weighted pendulum that engages with the escape wheel through the stable tick-tock of the anchor system. You can change the clock's ticking action to the 2nd, by sliding the pendulum's leading and bottom weights. The reducer likewise transfers rotation to an hour disc and a minute disc. Among the interesting features of our Aero Clock is that time is not read with turning hands on a clock face, but rather a repaired pointer suggests time on the slowly-rotating, numbered hour and minute discs. Furthermore, these discs rotate 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 model hot air balloon. The suspended balloon rapidly comes down when the hour strikes, then gradually rises 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 celebration of the first totally free aerial voyage 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 sensibility and spirit of adventure, and we believe you will too! Envision yourself an originator of new horizons and a conqueror of the 4 winds. The housing and appealing wood clock system 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 brand-new voyage of exploration on the hour.

The Ugears wood design clock kit commemorates the role of clocks in exploration. Did you know the problem of computing longitude, important to accurate navigation at sea, was fixed with a clock? The idea 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 precise (accurate to within a ? of a 2nd each day) that deliver captains could, at last, compute their position at sea to within a few nautical miles. By understanding the precise time back in London (Greenwich Meridian Time, or GMT), and computing the time at present position with celestial observation, navigators could compute where they were on the earth's surface. Latitude had been fixed by the Phoenicians as early as 600 B.C. with celestial reckoning—measuring the altitude of the sun at midday, or the angle made in 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 ultimately awarded the £20,000 first reward (roughly $1.5 million today) established in Parliament's Longitude Act of 1714, after showing the precision of his masterful 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 decreased, the Ugears Aero Clock, a wood wall clock with a pendulum that you build yourself, is both time-full and timeless in its simple beauty. This beautiful and functional wood wall clock design is for horologists, for enthusiasts, 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 thought, "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 discover the basic principles behind clockworks, how the steadying impact of a swinging pendulum runs through a rocking anchor, locking and opening the gears on an escapement one second at a time, thereby managing 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 perfect household project. When you work together to assemble this do it yourself wood clock design kit, you will experience the fulfillment of building something together and not simply any design, but a real operating watch. Later, you'll have a stunning item for the home, something your household can take pleasure in together as time goes by.

The Ugears Aero Clock with a pendulum is a brand-new and amazing addition to the Ugears collection of fascinating mechanical models, 3D puzzles, video game accessories, wood puzzle boxes, children's toys, and education STEM Lab design 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: Difficult
Assembly Time: 11 hours
Suggested Age: 14+
Package weight: 3.00 lbs

Manufacturer: UGears