Table clocks or mantel clocks also referred to as mantelpiece clocks are the successors to carriage clocks. In this category we use the modern all encompassing table clock designation but we will describe each clock as accurately as possible. Table clocks are ideally suited to stand on a table or mantel of a fireplace. Some of these clocks are designed with handles and escapements that allow carriage.

As early as the 1700's, Thomas Tompion and other clockmakers made miniature clocks, usually with balance wheels, intended as travel clocks.  Throught the eighteenth century travel, especially for those with means, became less arduous. These coach watches were too big to carry on the person, but conveniently small enough to travel alongside the owner by boat or coach. Some were equipped with repeating mechanisms and were of great use at night. Shortly after 1800 Abraham-Louis Breguet of Paris, started producing highly complex, beatifully finished and cased clocks we know as carriage clocks today. Through clockmakers like Paul Garnier, Paris became the centre of carriage and table clocks. At first the movements were visible through glass panes in an age when people were amazed by mechanical perfection. Later on not a single corner of the cases were left undecorated. Through the Industrial Revolution and later on the Americans and later Swiss and Germans made more affordable and less decorative clocks.

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