Take a trip back in time to the dawn of flight and the “balloonomania” that seized France and England in 1783 on the occasion of the first free aerial voyage in a balloon. The theme of the Aero Clock is early aeronautics. The suspended balloon rapidly descends when the hour strikes, then slowly rises again over the course of the next hour. Moreover, these discs rotate 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. One of the interesting features of our Aero Clock is that time is not read with rotating hands on a clock face, but rather a fixed pointer indicates time on the slowly-rotating, numbered hour and minute discs. The reducer also transmits rotation to an hour disc and a minute disc. You can adjust the clock’s ticking action to the second, by sliding the pendulum’s top and bottom weights. The clock features an adjustable weighted pendulum which interacts with the escape wheel through the steady tick-tock of the anchor mechanism. As the weight slowly descends, it rotates a drive gear, which then rotates an escape wheel through a reducer. Raise the bag on its pulleys to wind the clock.
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). Like all Ugears models, it also has that extra touch of whimsy, to captivate and charm our growing legion of fans. It is a lovely piece of precise engineering that reveals the workings of a weighted pendulum clock to builders and viewers alike. The Aero Clock is an ingenious puzzle and DIY clock mechanism, unlike any other clock. The Ugears Clock is an actual working clock that you can build yourself, mount to a wall, wind up, then watch as the seconds, minutes, and hours tick by.
The Aero Clock isn’t just a 3D wooden mechanical model, or a pretty showpiece.
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