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Decorative Antique Wall Clocks

Antique Clocks – and the Clocks that Look Like Them

Whether you’re decorating a new home, armed with swatches and paint chips, or redecorating to give your comfy older home a fresh, new look, an often overlooked accessory is the wall clock. Think about it. What other single thing can you hang on a wall that adds so much to a room’s personality, says so much about your own, and also does something practical, like tell the time? (That last bit, admittedly, gives clocks a bit of unfair advantage over, say, that latest daring work of Modern Art.) You might be wondering how a clock has personality. If you think of a clock as a face in a box, or worse, a necessary evil, it’s easy to guess you haven’t visited a clock gallery lately, either in person or online. Take a look at the clocks being created by top designers now. And be ready to be wowed.

How can you decorate with wall clocks? Let’s take an example. One of the most enduring decorating styles is to use family heirlooms or an antique accent piece as wall clocks, the focal point to a room. And nothing suits this look better than actually incorporating antique wall clocks into the overall scheme. Of course, real antique clocks can be fussy. Let’s face it, your uncle may swear his mantle clock piece masterpiece could provide time to NASA, but he does need to wind the thing now and then.

The good news is you can have antique styling in the most modern of quartz timepieces. Modern clocks that look like antique wall clocks are a specialty of fine clockmakers, like Hermle, who makes both quartz or keywound models. Want more romance? Take the 625-374 Harmon by Howard Miller, which looks like it was rescued from somewhere along the Orient Express. Or the Steampunk look of Uttermost Clock’s Rusty Gears series, such as their No. 06731. It has an antique finish with a fun, modern sensibility. Love history? Look at the Leonardo Series from Timeworks. They’re classical, and beautiful. And speaking of Classical, the Murano Glass Blue Mosaic Wall Clock by Ashton Sutton looks like it might have graced the palace of Alexander the Great.

Finally, let’s talk price. A fine timepiece is an investment and antique wall clocks are no exception. The real antiques clock can be quite valuable and expensive – or a steal from a flea market or yard sale. They may require cleaning and repair to tell time properly. A good new clock can become an heirloom itself in time. Your uncle’s famous clock was new once too, don’t forget. But you don’t have to mortgage the house to put a clock you love on that freshly painted wall. Expect to pay $100 to $700 for a gallery clock you can use as its own focal point, more for the finest timepieces or a real work of art.

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This entry was posted by Wall Clock Guru on Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 at 3:34 am and is filed under Best Find Wall Clocks, Modern Wall Clocks, Wall Clocks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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