Most of the wall clocks that are produced today are made of substandard materials and are mediocre at best. There are a couple of exceptions to this however. The cuckoo clock, the mantle clock, the grandfather clock and the pendulum wall clock all are high quality hand crafted time pieces that easily stand out in a crowd of mediocre clocks.
The first clock that will be discussed today is the cuckoo clock. The cuckoo clock otherwise known as the black forest clock is famous for two reasons. The first reason that makes this clock so famous is that makes a very distinct sound like a "cuckoo" when the clock strikes either the hour or half hour. The second reason that these clocks are so famous is because they come from the coveted black forest regions of Germany.
The next clock in today's talk about high end handcrafted wall time pieces is the mantle clock. This timepiece is more times than not in every home from coast to coast, and it usually sits atop the mantle hence the name a mantle clock. These clocks are usually in the a somewhat rectangular form and are carved of a quality wood.
Grandfather clocks are our next topic of discussion in our quest of learning about handcrafted wall clocks. The idea for the grandfather clock came from Galileo Galilei who invented the pendulum in 1582, although it was not until 1656 when Christiaan Huygens actually put all of the parts together and made the first grandfather clock.
The last clock that we will be talking about is the pendulum wall clock. This type of wall timepiece can be found in either the cuckoo or the grandfather clock. There are many great clocks that are run off of pendulums and without them there would not be the clocks that we have today.
So to summarize the three chronometers that we conversed about today are all high quality handcrafted wall chronometers. There are of course countless other timepieces out there that are equally nice but these are just some of the most commonly seen around the world.
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