Ugears Aero Clock

The time has come! For several years, we've been hearing the exact same question once again and once again from our faithful consumers: "Can Ugears produce a working clock design set, one that really keeps accurate time?" A working mechanical wooden clock has long been our #1 "most-requested" brand-new style. Your dream has likewise been our dream, and our group of devoted Ugears engineers and designers has been striving 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 design or a pretty masterpiece. The Ugears Clock is an actual working clock that you can construct yourself, mount to a wall, end up, then watch as the seconds, minutes, and hours tick by. The Aero Clock is an innovative puzzle and do it yourself clock mechanism, unlike any other clock. It is a lovely piece of precise engineering that reveals the workings of a weighted pendulum clock to home builders and audiences alike. Like all Ugears models, it likewise has that additional 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 slowly descends, it rotates a drive gear, which then rotates an escape wheel through a reducer. The clock features an adjustable weighted pendulum that engages with the escape wheel through the stable tick-tock of the anchor mechanism. You can change the clock's ticking action to the second, by moving the pendulum's leading and bottom weights. The reducer likewise 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, however rather a fixed pointer 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 features a design hot air balloon. The suspended balloon rapidly descends when the hour strikes, then slowly rises once again over the course of 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 celebration 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 brave aeronauts Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. We love this wooden design clock's steampunk sensibility and spirit of experience, and we believe you will too! Envision yourself an originator of brand-new horizons and a conqueror of the four winds. The housing and appealing wooden clock mechanism 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 new trip of exploration on the hour.

The Ugears wooden design clock set celebrates the role of clocks in exploration. Did you understand the issue of determining longitude, important to accurate navigation at sea, was solved with a clock? The idea was proposed by Dutch mathematician Gemma Frisius in 1530, however it wasn't up until the mid-18th century when English clockmaker John Harrison established a series of shipboard clocks so precise (accurate to within a ? of a 2nd per day) that ship captains could, at last, compute their position at sea to within a few nautical miles. By understanding the specific time back in London (Greenwich Meridian Time, or GMT), and determining the time at current position with celestial observation, navigators might compute where they were on the earth's surface. Latitude had been solved by the Phoenicians as early as 600 B.C. with celestial reckoning—measuring the elevation of the sun at noon, or the angle made between the North Star (or other navigational stars) and the horizon. But the longitude issue would bedevil explorers for another 2,000 years. Harrison was eventually awarded the £20,000 first reward (roughly $1.5 million today) developed in Parliament's Longitude Act of 1714, after demonstrating the precision of his masterful clocks at sea. Now you too can become a clockmaker, with the Ugears Aero Clock design kit!

Released at a minute when the world seems to have actually decreased, the Ugears Aero Clock, a wood wall clock with a pendulum that you construct yourself, is both time-full and classic in its easy elegance. This lovely and functional wooden wall clock design is for horologists, for enthusiasts, for explorers, for creatives and romantics of every stripe, anybody who is prepared for brand-new difficulties and prepared to take threats. If you've ever looked up at the sky and thought, "I wish to exist!" or looked 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 fundamental principles behind clockworks, how the steadying impact of a swinging pendulum operates 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 magnificent puzzle and the best family project. When you interact to assemble this do it yourself wooden clock design set, you will experience the satisfaction of building something together and not simply any design, however an actual working timepiece. Afterward, you'll have a gorgeous object for the house, something your family can take pleasure in together as time goes by.

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

Manufacturer: UGears