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Ugears Aero Clock (Ugears UG-70154 | UG-70154)

Model: Ugears UG-70154
Dist. #: UG-70154   SKU: UG-70154

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Updated on Mar 28, 2024 09:03:53 AM

Aero Clock...
The time has come! For many years, we've been hearing the exact same question again and again from our loyal consumers: "Can Ugears create a working clock model kit, one that in fact keeps precise time?" A working mechanical wooden clock has long been our #1 "most-requested" 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 reality. 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 just a 3D wooden mechanical model or a quite showpiece. The Ugears Clock is a real working clock that you can build yourself, install to a wall, end up, then enjoy 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 charming piece of accurate 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 mesmerize and appeal 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 wheels to wind the clock. As the weight gradually descends, it rotates a drive gear, which then rotates an escape wheel through a reducer. The clock includes an adjustable weighted pendulum that interacts with the escape wheel through the steady tick-tock of the anchor mechanism. You can change the clock's ticking action to the second, by moving the pendulum's top and bottom weights. The reducer likewise transfers rotation to an hour disc and a minute disc. Among the fascinating functions of our Aero Clock is that time is not check out with turning hands on a clock face, but rather a fixed pointer shows time on the slowly-rotating, numbered hour and minute discs. Furthermore, these discs turn counterclockwise—did you know that before standardization, some clocks moved clockwise while others moved counterclockwise? In the function of "cuckoo,” the Ugears Aero Clock includes a model hot air balloon. The suspended balloon rapidly descends when the hour strikes, then gradually increases again over the course of 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 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 model clock's steampunk sensibility and spirit of experience, and we believe you will too! Envision yourself a discoverer of new horizons and a conqueror of the four winds. The case and interesting wooden clock mechanism represent an airbase located amongst the clouds, where zephyrs blow and filtered rays of sunshine dapple the machinery, while you, in the function of aeronaut, launch a brand-new trip of exploration on the hour.

The Ugears wooden model clock kit commemorates the function of clocks in exploration. Did you know the issue of determining longitude, crucial to precise navigation at sea, was fixed with a clock? The idea was proposed by Dutch mathematician Gemma Frisius in 1530, but it wasn't until the mid-18th century when English clockmaker John Harrison established a series of shipboard clocks so accurate (precise to within a ? of a 2nd daily) that deliver captains could, at last, calculate their position at sea to within a couple of nautical miles. By knowing the exact 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 been fixed by the Phoenicians as early as 600 B.C. with celestial reckoning—measuring the altitude of the sun at twelve noon, or the angle made 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 awarded the £20,000 first prize (roughly $1.5 million today) developed in Parliament's Longitude Act of 1714, after showing 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 actually decreased, the Ugears Aero Clock, a wood wall clock with a pendulum that you build yourself, is both time-full and classic 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, anyone who is prepared for new obstacles and prepared to take risks. If you've ever looked up at the sky and idea, "I want 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 find out the fundamental principles behind clockworks, how the steadying influence of a swinging pendulum runs through a rocking anchor, locking and unlocking the equipments on an escapement one second at a time, therefore controling the (slow) descent of a weight as it drives both power equipments and timekeeping gears.

The Ugears' Aero Clock with a pendulum is a wonderful puzzle and the ideal household project. When you collaborate to assemble this do it yourself wooden clock model kit, you will experience the satisfaction of structure something together and not just any model, but a real operating timepiece. Afterward, you'll have a lovely things 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 exciting addition to the Ugears collection of fascinating mechanical models, 3D puzzles, game accessories, wooden puzzle boxes, kids's toys, and education STEM Lab model kits.

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

Producer: UGears




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