Ugears Aero Clock

The time has actually come! For several years, we've been hearing the very same question once again and once again from our loyal consumers: "Can Ugears create a working clock design kit, one that actually keeps accurate time?" A working mechanical wooden clock has actually long been our #1 "most-requested" new design. Your dream has actually likewise been our dream, and our group 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 DIY wall clock with a pendulum.

The Aero Clock isn't just a 3D wooden mechanical design or a pretty showpiece. The Ugears Clock is an actual working clock that you can develop 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 DIY clock system, unlike any other clock. It is a lovely piece of precise engineering that exposes the workings of a weighted pendulum clock to home builders and viewers alike. Like all Ugears models, it likewise has that additional 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 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 features an adjustable weighted pendulum that engages with the escape wheel through the consistent tick-tock of the anchor system. You can change the clock's ticking action to the second, by sliding the pendulum's leading and bottom weights. The reducer likewise sends rotation to an hour disc and a minute disc. One of the fascinating features of our Aero Clock is that time is not read 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 role of "cuckoo,” the Ugears Aero Clock features a model hot air balloon. The suspended balloon rapidly descends when the hour strikes, then gradually 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 took France and England in 1783 on the occasion of the first totally free aerial voyage in a balloon. This was followed 2 years later on 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 perceptiveness 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 casing and intriguing wooden clock system represent an airbase located amongst the clouds, where breezes blow and filtered rays of sunlight dapple the equipment, while you, in the role of aeronaut, launch a new voyage of expedition on the hour.

The Ugears wooden design clock kit celebrates the role of clocks in expedition. Did you know the issue of calculating longitude, important to accurate navigation at sea, was solved 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 precise (accurate to within a ? of a 2nd each day) that ship captains could, at last, determine their position at sea to within a couple of nautical miles. By understanding the precise time back in London (Greenwich Meridian Time, or GMT), and calculating the time at current position with celestial observation, navigators might determine where they were on the earth's surface. Latitude had actually been solved by the Phoenicians as early as 600 B.C. with celestial numeration—determining the elevation 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 first prize (roughly $1.5 million today) developed in Parliament's Longitude Act of 1714, after showing the accuracy of his skillful clocks at sea. Now you too can become a clockmaker, with the Ugears Aero Clock design kit!

Released at a moment when the world appears to have actually decreased, the Ugears Aero Clock, a wood wall clock with a pendulum that you develop yourself, is both time-full and ageless in its simple beauty. This beautiful and practical wooden wall clock design is for horologists, for hobbyists, for explorers, for creatives and romantics of every stripe, anybody who is prepared for new difficulties and prepared to take risks. If you have actually ever looked up at the sky and idea, "I wish to exist!" or looked at a pendulum clock and wondered, "How does that work?" then the Ugears Aero Clock is for you.

As you develop 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 operates through a rocking anchor, locking and opening the gears on an escapement one second at a time, thus regulating 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 best family job. When you interact to assemble this DIY wooden clock design kit, you will experience the fulfillment of building something together and not just any design, but an actual working watch. Later, you'll have a gorgeous item 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 fascinating mechanical models, 3D puzzles, game devices, wooden puzzle boxes, kids'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: Hard
Assembly Time: 11 hours
Suggested Age: 14+
Kit weight: 3.00 pounds

Producer: UGears