Antique GrandFather Clock
 Download Run Clock |
 |
Download WinZip -
All
MatsClock are in Compressed Zip files. You will need WinZip to UnZip
MatsClock and run them. WinZip can Compress, Password Protect and
even Encrypt (AES 256 bit) any type of file and any number of files
into a Single file without losing Quality. Save Hard Disk Space and
Share Your files Securely anywhere.
Antique Value GrandFather Clocks
Every grandfather clock has an antique value. Although, any clock
shows you the way time passes, the grandfather clocks made decades or a
century ago stands testimony to the ingenuity and hardwork put in by
those carpenters and brass workers and clock designers. Today who has
the time to waste doing that. Moreover, we use composite materials or
plastics to create such clocks that run on batteries. The sheer charm of
a real pendulum swinging inside a grandfather clock is a nostalgic
feeling I cannot forget. I have seen at least half a dozen clocks of the
pendulum types in my childhood at each of my grand parents houses.
Everytime I saw them, even as a child I used to stop and watch the
pendulum swinging and wait for many minutes for it to stop swinging and
always wondered why they never stop swinging.
Winding an Antique Grandfather Clock
I still remember my grandfather climb up a chair to reach the clock
hung high up on the wall out of my reach of course as they knew my
curiosity is going to damage the clock. He would then use a big key and
turn it many times. He would then wind the other spring also using the
key in the other hole. One was for the clock pendulum to swing and
needles to rotate and show the time. The second spring he used to wind
was for the chime. There were two long brass levers on which two
strikers would bang every half an hour and whole hour. Each half hour
was ding dong and every whole number hour would be ding dong exactly as
many as the whole hour at that time. It was surely pleasing to the ears.
Today the clocks chime by day and don't chime by night. But the antique
grandfather clock never understood the difference between day and night
and would chime away as loud at night as by day.
Our Antique Grandfather Clock Still Works !
The antique grandfather clock in my great grand parents homes have
stopped chiming, their pendulums have stopped swinging and they show the
same time even after 30 years. I designed this matsclock 1404 to mimic
the antique grandfather clock we had at our ancesteral home which
stopped the day last of my great grand parents passed away. No we did
not sell it. Our antique grandfather clocks stand there to remind us of
them and take us back in time every time we look at it. The still
pendulum is what takes my attention. Now I wonder, when will the antique
masterpiece clock's pendulum will start swinging, when will its needles
start rotating and showing time. Amazingly, sometimes at night I still
hear our antique grandfather clock chime in the slience of night even
though the antique grandfather clock no more works. It is not my grand
parents ghosts. It is just that when I sleep there, I probably go back
to my childhood when our great grandfather was alive to wind the springs
with the key and the clock used to ring. The video and audio were
recorded in my brain permanently and they come alive and starts
replaying in my dreams as I sleep. Our Antique GrandFather Clock still
works !
