Ugears Aero Clock

The time has actually come! For many years, we've been hearing the same question again and again from our devoted customers: "Can Ugears develop a working clock model set, one that really keeps precise time?" A working mechanical wooden clock has actually long been our #1 "most-requested" new style. Your dream has actually also been our dream, and our team of devoted Ugears engineers and designers has actually been striving to bring this shared dream into reality. Finally, 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 just a 3D wooden mechanical model or a pretty masterpiece. The Ugears Clock is a real working clock that you can build 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 do it yourself clock mechanism, unlike any other clock. It is a lovely piece of accurate engineering that exposes the operations of a weighted pendulum clock to builders and audiences alike. Like all Ugears models, it also 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 pulleys 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 features an adjustable weighted pendulum that interacts with the escape wheel through the constant tick-tock of the anchor mechanism. You can change the clock's ticking action to the second, by sliding the pendulum's top and bottom weights. The reducer also transfers rotation to an hour disc and a minute disc. Among the intriguing features of our Aero Clock is that time is not check out with rotating hands on a clock face, however rather a fixed guideline suggests 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 features a design hot air balloon. The suspended balloon rapidly descends 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 event of the very first totally free aerial trip in a balloon. This was followed 2 years later by the very first aerial crossing of the English Channel by brave aeronauts Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. We like this wooden model clock's steampunk sensibility and spirit of experience, and we believe you will too! Imagine yourself a discoverer of new horizons and a conqueror of the four winds. The housing and interesting wooden clock mechanism represent an airbase situated among the clouds, where breezes blow and filtered rays of sunshine dapple the equipment, while you, in the function of aeronaut, launch a new trip of expedition on the hour.

The Ugears wooden model clock set celebrates the function of clocks in expedition. Did you know the problem of calculating longitude, important to precise navigation at sea, was resolved with a clock? The idea was proposed by Dutch mathematician Gemma Frisius in 1530, however it wasn't till the mid-18th century when English clockmaker John Harrison developed a series of shipboard clocks so accurate (precise to within a ? of a 2nd daily) that deliver captains could, at last, compute their position at sea to within a few nautical miles. By understanding the exact time back in London (Greenwich Meridian Time, or GMT), and calculating the time at current position with celestial observation, navigators might compute where they were on the earth's surface. Latitude had actually been resolved by the Phoenicians as early as 600 B.C. with celestial numeration—determining 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 problem 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 masterful clocks at sea. Now you too can become a clockmaker, with the Ugears Aero Clock model kit!

Released at a minute when the world appears to have actually decreased, the Ugears Aero Clock, a wooden wall clock with a pendulum that you build yourself, is both time-full and ageless in its easy elegance. This beautiful and functional wooden wall clock model is for horologists, for hobbyists, for explorers, for creatives and romantics of every stripe, anyone who is ready for new challenges and ready to take risks. If you've ever gazed 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 wooden wall clock with a pendulum, you will learn the basic concepts 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 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 marvelous puzzle and the perfect family job. When you collaborate to assemble this do it yourself wooden clock model set, you will experience the fulfillment of building something together and not just any model, however a real working wrist watch. Afterward, you'll have a lovely object for the home, something your family can enjoy together as time goes by.

The Ugears Aero Clock with a pendulum is a new and exciting addition to the Ugears collection of fascinating mechanical models, 3D puzzles, 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
Package size: 14.9 x 6.7 x 2.0 in
Variety of parts: 320
Level: Difficult
Assembly Time: 11 hours
Advised Age: 14+
Kit weight: 3.00 lbs

Maker: UGears