A freestanding antique clock built to sit on a mantel, pendulum swinging behind its own little glass door, not a wall clock or a wristwatch. It reads as old-fashioned by design: an heirloom passed down a family, a grandparent's parlor, anything nostalgic enough to feel handed down rather than bought last week.
What 🕰️ means
A round clock piece with short spokes for numbers and the time suggesting 10:10, fitted into a wooden or just bronze background that has a round body and a flat base where it balances the whole timepiece.
The 🕰️ Mantelpiece Clock emoji suggests fireplace decor apart from signifying a rustic and vintage vibe to an interior setup. Moreover, this emoji represents traditional or old-school home furnishing.
How and when to use it
- Based on the heavy significance Christmas can have when it comes to the fireplace, 🕰️ could also be used in this festive context. Post or repost captions related to Christmas, fireplace decor, or both (irrespective of whether there's a mantelpiece clock on it), can use 🕰️.
- You can also use 🕰️ while sharing pictures of an antique timepiece you own, recently began owning, or even one that you saw in a museum or in someone else's home.
- Apart from just clocks, 🕰️ also signifies a sense of being aged, traditional, and old-school. So, if you're posting something about/for someone or something who fits into this description, you can use this emoji in the caption.
- If you're referring to 'history' in a literal or metaphorical sense in any framework, you can use 🕰️ in the caption. For instance, "History screams so loud I cannot but see the cruelty that you call a coincidence 🕰️".
Other Names
- 🕰️ Antique Clock
- 🕰️ Clock
- 🕰️ Antique Timepiece
- 🕰️ Fireplace Clock
- 🕰️ Wooden Clock
- 🕰️ Mantel Clock
- 🕰️ Traditional Clock
- 🕰️ Analog Mantelpiece Clock
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › time
- Codepoints
U+1F570 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:mantelpiece_clock:GitHub- Keywords
- clock, mantelpiece, time
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🕰️ Mantelpiece Clock or 🌺 Hibiscus?