Ugears Aero Clock

The time has come! For years, we've been hearing the same question once again and once again from our loyal clients: "Can Ugears develop a working clock model set, one that in fact keeps accurate time?" A working mechanical wooden clock has long been our #1 "most-requested" new style. Your dream has also been our dream, and our group of dedicated Ugears engineers and designers has been working hard to bring this shared dream into truth. Finally, the wait is over. Ugears is happy to provide the Aero Clock, a fully-functioning do it yourself wall clock with a pendulum.

The Aero Clock isn't simply a 3D wooden mechanical model or a pretty showpiece. The Ugears Clock is a real 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 innovative puzzle and do it yourself clock system, unlike any other clock. It is a charming piece of accurate engineering that exposes the workings of a weighted pendulum clock to home builders and audiences alike. Like all Ugears models, it also has that extra 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 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 slowly 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 adjust the clock's ticking action to the second, by moving the pendulum's top and bottom weights. The reducer also sends rotation to an hour disc and a minute disc. Among the interesting features of our Aero Clock is that time is not check out with turning hands on a clock face, however 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 function of "cuckoo,” the Ugears Aero Clock includes a design hot air balloon. The suspended balloon rapidly comes down when the hour strikes, then slowly increases once 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 seized France and England in 1783 on the celebration of the very first complimentary aerial trip in a balloon. This was followed two years later on 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 perceptiveness and spirit of experience, and we think you will too! Envision yourself an originator of new horizons and a conqueror of the four winds. The casing and appealing wooden clock system represent an airbase situated amongst the clouds, where zephyrs blow and filtered rays of sunlight dapple the equipment, while you, in the function of aeronaut, launch a brand-new trip of exploration on the hour.

The Ugears wooden model clock set commemorates the function of clocks in exploration. Did you know the issue of determining longitude, critical 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 until the mid-18th century when English clockmaker John Harrison developed a series of shipboard clocks so accurate (accurate to within a ? of a second daily) that deliver captains could, at last, calculate their position at sea to within a few nautical miles. By knowing the precise time back in London (Greenwich Meridian Time, or GMT), and determining the time at present position with celestial observation, navigators could calculate where they were on the earth's surface area. Latitude had been solved by the Phoenicians as early as 600 B.C. with celestial numeration—measuring the altitude of the sun at 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 ultimately granted the £20,000 very first prize (roughly $1.5 million today) established in Parliament's Longitude Act of 1714, after showing 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 seems to have slowed down, 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 functional wooden wall clock model is for horologists, for enthusiasts, for explorers, for creatives and romantics of every stripe, anyone who is ready for new obstacles and ready to take risks. If you've ever gazed up at the sky and thought, "I want 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 find out the basic principles behind clockworks, how the steadying impact of a swinging pendulum runs through a rocking anchor, locking and opening the equipments on an escapement one second at a time, therefore regulating the (slow) 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 best family task. When you collaborate to assemble this do it yourself wooden clock model set, you will experience the complete satisfaction of structure something together and not simply any model, however a real working timepiece. Afterward, you'll have a beautiful things for the home, something your family 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 remarkable 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: Hard
Assembly Time: 11 hours
Recommended Age: 14+
Package weight: 3.00 pounds

Manufacturer: UGears