I will plunge into the world of hours - the keepers of time: without them it is impossible to present our fleeting life. Design in design and stylistic features.
"Marine" collection
Executive watches
Venician glasses dial
Eclectic in the interior - the development of time
Shoulder Classic Design Watch
Past can be element of decor
Choys for children and kitchen
For self-confident people
Large digits - for older people
Sculpture model
Sophisticated historical stylization
Gold Plated Corps in the form of a kivory
Vtychal High Tech- electronic time, calendar and some metal
Rejoice every minute. Life is beautiful!
Time barley, two spines ...
What time is it now?
Maybe something delicious?
How much time, you will definitely learn. After a small training
Dial without digit-time not interference
Plastic model with pendulum
Watch with a rotary display
Agree, it is difficult to imagine our quick life without hours. Sometimes it would not even hurt that they walked a little slower and did not count the precious minutes with such inexorable accuracy. Custoders of time, the desired element of the decor of each house, a successful design project - all this is about them, loved ones. In the past timeThe clock has gained your usual status in the house only a lot of centuries after the invention of the first instrument for measuring time. The most ancient of all hourly sunny. Only they, according to joker, show the true time, and all the rest are mean. Write its specificity, sundials are designed for outdoor use. The inconvenience was that they were impossible to use in the dark or cloudy weather. Invented late water clocks stopped working at low temperatures. There were no express deficiencies in the hourglass, third in time of creation. They still exist beautifully in the modern interior, pleaseing the human eye, which, as is known, never get tired of contemplating water and other fluid substances. Only here is the time measured by them quite relative.
Hear ringing
The angular outdoor hours of respectability among interior hours are definitely leading outdoor. By its origin, they are obliged to England XVI. The duration of the monasteries and temples everywhere began to appear the tower clock. Ticking, callers, performing different melodies, they played real theatrical views. Many water has flowed, and the melodies of time mechanisms have remained almost unchanged since that long ago. The Motive of Big-Ben, for example, to this day remains a symbol of the BBC information agency. Daily interior hours there are special musical mechanisms, changing the setting of which you can choose your favorite melody. It at the right time will play your watch. Depending on the installed mode, in the morning you will wake up the battle of the clock of the British Parliament or the Abbey of St. Mary in London. Who likes what. However, in order not to wake up among the nights, ask in advance to adjust the volume and the ability to automatically disconnect the melody at night.
Outdoor watches, like a fireplace in the house, is the thing status. Even in medieval England, the clocks in the castles were a mandatory element, emphasizing the social status and antiquity of the genus. Today, outdoor hours are also becoming something like a family relic. They are in a special position, always in sight. And, by virtue of its destination, immediately attract attention. Therefore, they make sense to be attributed to the category of expensive purchases that make an eye on the future. Agree that the clock is an excellent gift (for example, for a wedding), since they are much longer than, let's say, furniture or textile design of the house. This is something more than just the subject. This is a legend and memory of the ancestors, if the clock is old and transmitted from generation to generation.
The model range of each respectable modern Italian factory Altobel Antonio includes both expensive outdoor clocks and more affordable walls. Outdoor, or "grandfathers" - a mandatory attribute of the interior stylized under any of historical styles. It is reasonable to stay on them if you try to recreate the front atmosphere of the era of classicism or an amp. You can choose a decent model from $ 1200 (DOLD, Germany; Kieninger, USA). The rest of today historical styles, of course, impose their requirements for the form and decor of the case. Let's say, the clock stylized by Rococo is performed from gold-plated bronze and decorated with flowers garlands and figures of playful pushti (Farbel, Italy). Imperial style of Napoleon suggests images of winged lions and sphinxes.
The mechanism as the decoration of the models of the outdoor hours presented on the market correspond to the styles of the European and Russian modern. Naturally, it is only about reproduction or remakes of historical samples (Gallo, Italy). Original exhibits will cost much more expensive if only you will smile fate in a little-known antique salon or auction. The serious price of copies and free variations on the theme of historical models is made up of the value of materials, the unique quality of watchmakers and the type of mechanism. Panels and decorative elements of the housings are made of wood of valuable rocks. Many metal parts of the clock (mechanisms, pendulums, weights, hinges doors and decorative elements) are performed from brass. Hermle (Germany) rotary mechanisms are used by two types of drives - on the cable and on the chain traction. The models with the cable control implies the presence of a more complex drive design and a clockwork mechanism. As a result, a higher price is assigned for them. There are still spring mechanisms - with springs instead of a weight and plant key on the dial.
Mechanics of outdoor hours sometimes becomes a real work of art. Not only are many details are checked for accuracy and customized manually. Extract models are possible engraving on the dial, pendulum and weights, also made manually. It should be noted that the exclusive will cost much more expensive, especially if the hull is made from the wood array and decorated with manual carvings. For those who are not afraid of change and prefers strict and concise stylistics, the housing of the clock is made of plexiglas or mining crystal so that the work is visible to a complex arranged mechanism. This is a "skeletal" clock (on professional language-skeletons). Starting from the XVIV., When the interior watches were still wondering, the interest in them was heated by the naked mechanism: he was trying to make it open or placed in a transparent casing.
Classic design with a pendulum, chain and gyriclassical clock with a pendulum are convenient for their shop windows that are equipped with a glass door and shelves. It is convenient to store memorable things or a collection of porcelain (Altobel Antonio). In principle, such hours are performed, in addition to their direct utilitarian function, the role of those who have moved, unfortunately, into the past glass slides, the presence of which created the atmosphere of the stability and continuity of family traditions in the house. The current owners find the use of this fragile space to their taste. Now there are expensive heart photos, baubles and even books. Under the individual order, the manufacturer's factory can develop an accented backlight of the shelves specified by the client.
When choosing outdoor hours, certainly pay attention to their depth. They do not have to be cumbersome and occupy a lot of precious space. There are compact models with a depth of 25cm, such as in the Hermle collection of this year. Be careful: there are pitfalls here. Choosing a clock on the catalog or via the Internet, you can easily miss the sizes. Manufacturers, as a rule, indicate the dimensions of the cabinets. As a result, the difference from the actual depth of the case sometimes reaches 10 cm.
Hourly mechanisms are a high-tech and pretty conservative thing. Therefore, today, watchmakers prefer to experiment more with the form of the hull and materials from which it is made. An unusual place for interior watches under the transparent glass table top, there was an American company HOWARD MILLER (TREND series). This uses mechanisms from Kieninger.
All run, run, run ...Wannadanque Clock Fashion is still wall models. The classic circle, artificially aged dials, arrows, the numbers of ancient design, a half-rated painting, places losing to paint- become the keeper of such a relic for $ 200 (HOWARD MILLER).
Old dial-element decorative is a feature of the situation on the hourly market is the use of mechanisms of famous factories with all sorts of companies involved in the manufacture of models with national, regional, functional features. Plug-in mechanisms starting with miniature, 35mm diameters, can be placed in the body of wood, glass, porcelain or from any other material. For example, the Hermle quartz mechanism provides the accuracy and reliability of PonyGlass watches (Russia). Wall and desktop models made of glass are produced by the company in the ancient technique of Fusing, known in Italy with XIVV. For the manufacture of the housing and the dial, a special color glass is used that does not contain coloring pigments. It acquires its color due to the addition of (when molting) oxides of various metals. Like any glass products, these watches require a particularly careful attitude towards themselves. In order for the material to show itself in all its glory, they are placed in the conditions of intensive lighting. The bright light is necessary that the glass "played" and acquired a more rich color. Actually, the function of the clock here turns out to be secondary, as well as in CESARE SENT (Italy), fully made from the Venetian glass (from $ 40).
Included arrows will be the scope of the clock for you primarily decorative interior element, we advise you to pay attention to models with a spectacular external form, for example, with a missing or not expressly pronounced dial. Designers with an asymmetrical dial or generally devoid of numbers (Puntoarte, Italy), with a fluid, floating shape look like surrealistic variations on the topic of fleeting time. The time itself, however, after some training, you can learn to determine up to five minutes. These copies are manufactured manually and are produced, of course, small parties. It is nice to note that the Russian products are significantly cheaper than Italian analogues.
How will we hang?It is desirable that wall clocks in the representative zone still correspond to the stylistics of the premises in general. How to achieve this? We formulate the basic principles:
they must maintain a drawing on the walls or to sew on the principle of contrast (shape, color, material);
In the interior deprived of a pronounced style, a neutral model is more appropriate;
The clock is always separate: they are in the interior and at the same time a little "above it."
This sense is perfect hot-friendly German products in a carved tree housing and cuckoo. Their body is the result of a virtuoso handicraft work, which was particularly famous for the Schwarzvald Masters, which traded the clock since XVIIV. Despite the standard mechanism, the clock undoubtedly produce a vivid impression. Especially if it is a humorous variation on the usual shaped cuckoo models from Alessi (Italy).
Any wall clock will serve you for a long time, subject to the place competently chosen for them. Like painting, they are not recommended to hang under the right sunlight.
For serious people
Three in one-model for business accounting wall clocks, on the contrary, as a rule, do not have a fade, richly decorated corps. For a serious room, it will be more suitable for strict execution with a minimum of decor, with a traditional pendulum and a beautiful, solid "voice" -bame. Another case is desktop clock. They are located directly on the desk, the Bureau of the Respectable owner or the elegant secretary of the hostess (Olmecs, Italy). They are the same as wall, have a minimum of finishes, a bit of complex threads and a little gilding against the background of a tree of noble breeds and with a general concise design. Smooth shape, a rotating chrome-plated case will not conflict with modern office equipment and Hi-Fi equipment.
To any customer watches with rectangular metallic, glass, and in a more economical version, plastic case will be given to any cabinet. Former practical meaning, they now, of course, do not have a fixed time to count the time on the desk (EnterClock, the Netherlands). From the legendary past, the carriage hours remained only a special carrying handle. Such models have a relatively small height (up to 30cm) and cost (from $ 100).
The collection of stylish models of wrought iron-kinet business person The watch must also be fulfilled by the representative function. That is why in this discharge of the hourly industry there are the most intricate techniques for decorating the case. Credan models dial (Spain), for example, made in the traditions of the ancient art of gold inlays, which received the name "Damascus" in the east. This technique goes to its roots in the depths of centuries. This kind of gold and silver notches for decorating various items began to be used in ancient China 2.5 thousand years ago. Today, the masters create patterns of thin wire or gold plates (18 or 24 carats) on the surface of the housings (18 or 24 carats). Case molding is often found by bronze and semi-precious ornamental stones (malachite, jasper, lags), which significantly increase the cost of items. The bronze case is considered for the interior universal option. It will be appropriate in the office, stylized under historical style, and in the classic bedroom.
On the fireplace shelf
The candlestick forms a general composition with the climer of individual desktop and fireplace models there are a clock-headset, consisting of hours and two (less often) of items decorated in one-style (EnterClock). In principle, based on the range of the interior salon, you can always make a composition of the items of different companies. The unifying start for such a group usually serves the same material or the same height of items. Yes, and do not forget to visually decompose the height of the candles to the candlesticks. Ensembles from the clock and two candelabers (Diaz Mercade) or the composition of the "Farbel VAZ-Watch" (Farbel) can be purchased in the capital's specialized stores or watch departments of large department stores at a price of $ 350 for the subject. Most often it is the products of Italian and French manufacturers.
Children will be friends with time. Horsiciki from Muranian glass watches, depending on the room in which they are destined to hang, can have a wide variety of forms. For the nursery, the bright colors of the body, inexpensive materials and a labeled design (Linder, Germany, Funny series, from $ 80) are suitable. Somehow surprisingly to the taste of children and their parents had a maritime theme. You can understand moms and dads: ship gong will not allow the future captain to sleep school. For adolescents, more complex and functional models with a barometer, a thermometer, a pointer of tides and sings are offered, as well as watches that scrape (Leie Live, Hong Kong). Calendar and built-in temperature sensor will cost only $ 27. Land flagelves are recommended electronic clock with a CD player or with a rotary display (IKEA, Sweden).
Arrow of delicious life
The model for fun housewives and hospitable houses kitchen and in the bathroom is better to use inexpensive plastic clock. First of all, they must be impermeable to moisture and withstand temperature differences. It is easy to find similar models for $ 20 and cheaper, if we are talking about Russian or Chinese manufacturers. You can hang a traditional type of porcelain product with a painted dial - the modern version of the wall clock in the bourgeois in a good sense of the word XIX-Bidermeer style. The clock in the style of country and its national variations must have a framing of environmentally friendly materials. It is suitable for all types of weaving or artificially aged tree. The average price for the clock in the porcelain case (blind figures and colorful painting in the pastoral style) fluctuates, depending on the size, from $ 60 to $ 400.
Injured hour!The question is, with what time the time for hours to check time, each decides in its own way. Avtus To calibrate the mechanism, you will have to seek help to a professional master. Most specialized watch salons include this service, as well as delivery, in the total purchase price. The wizard will install the clock, then your task is to isolate curious households (floors during its work must be in full immobility. Outdoor hours after setting on the spot no longer recommend moving, otherwise the procedure will have to be repeated. If you are leaving for a long time, for example, in a long business trip Or vacation, then the clock can be just stopped, and on returning again to set the right time. The most important thing is that they remain accurate as the English Queen, and only a happy watch also counted!
The editorial board thanks the company "Osttaym", "Vesta Alpha", Ponyglass, IKEA, Elsa-Fashion shops and "belts in countertops" for help in the preparation of material.