![]() ![]() The resulting design, with a long, thin tall clock case, and a clock face on the top, was therefore a perfect example of form following function. The first clocks (15's) were mounted on walls without a case, but they would get very dirty and brass clock-works are damaged by dust and expensive to clean, so they were encased in wood boxes, with glass to show only the clock face. The shorter the chain, the sooner it needed to be rewound. They were invented in the shape they were because they needed to have very long pendulums and weights hung on long chains. Then lets look at the history of tall clocks. ![]() Lets consider arguably the fundamental ideal of modernism - i.e. I won't dispute that there are a lot of tacky antique-style grandfather clocks around (mostly reproductions made in the 20th century), but I think the idea that the modernist ones are necessarily better is a mistake. There seems to be a consensus here so far that antique tall clocks (the proper name for grandfather clocks) are tacky, and that the modernist ones are superior in design and execution. ![]()
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