How Are Clocks Made?

Clocks play a extremely significant role in everyone lives. We get up in the morning by an alarm clock and go to bed at night by a clock. We go to work, school and appointments by clocks. Clocks can be used in the home for decoration and come in a variety of styles and shapes.

How Are Clocks Made?

Clocks are powered in a variety of ways: battery, electric, spring-driven and weight-driven.

• Weight and spring driven clocks have mechanical parts. These types of clocks are powered by the gravitational pull of weights slowly descending, most weight-driven clocks will chime. A good example of a weight-driven clock is a grandfather clock.




• Spring-driven clocks are powered by a spring. A key winds the mechanical spring which powers the clock until it unwinds. Spring-driven clocks will run up to seven days before winding down. A good example of a spring-driven clock is the Big Ben alarm clock.




• Most of the electric and battery clocks made today are simply time only models and do not produce a chime.