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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum contains artefacts that have been donated by victims families and survivors relating to the event of 6th August 1945. In total there are over 120 timepieces held in the vaulted archives.
Time has always been a human obsession. The earliest cultures based their lives and customs on the changes of seasons, and movement of the moon and sun….
Following the crisis caused by quartz during the 60's and 70's…
From the 70's till tomorrow. From Bhanu Chopra
The dawn of wrist-watchmaking …
“White Label” refers to the purchase of a completed product, made to custom specifications, normally to be sold forward. This practice has existed since the 17th century….
In the 1920s, Frédéric-Emile Blancpain met the British watchmaker, John Harwood…
Part 10. Drilling is a delicate operation because it requires both precision and strength. The drill is an ancient tool, anterior and Neolithic.
Around 1768, Arnold constructed another watch for the King which was given the designation "Number 1" by Arnold —something he did when the watches he built was regarded as significant.
Knibb was considered as the finest horologist of his time, according to author Herbert Cescinsky, a renowned specialist on English clocks.
Part 9. In almost all of the workshops of artisans a fire burns, either to warm the glue of the carpenter or to keep the irons of the furnace hot.
Hooke discovered the law of elasticity in 1660 which describes the linear variation of tension with extension in an elastic spring.
I was asked, what it was like to deconstruct a 200-year-old Breguet…
The Orin bell both influenced the technical and cultural approach behind the Credor Sonnerie.
Tourbillons, one of the most animated of mechanical complications, like ideas, will always defy gravity.
Found in this Cartier pocket watch is an unusual system for assembly of the case. Resulting from the onyx material used in the main body, the onyx was in essence hollowed out forming a cup for the mechanism and dial. The system was often executed by Cartier but few others.
George Graham, an English clockmaker, inventor, geophysicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society, was born in 1673 in the Cumberland town of Kirklinton.
…he was awarded the commission to build the Great Clock for the House of Parliament in Westminster in 1852, but passed away before the project was completed.
Charles Frodsham, a distinguished English horologist was born in April 1810 in Bloomsbury, London, England. He attended the Bluecoat School in Newgate, London, before becoming an apprentice to his father, William James Frodsham FRS, a well-known chronometer manufacturer and co-founder of Parkinson & Frodsham.
In his lifetime, he won numerous prestigious awards. One of those was the British Horological Institute’s Gold Medal.
In 1763, he created a novel repeating mechanism. The new design was a huge improvement, as it did away with the flimsy winding chain, improved stability and reduced friction, all while reducing space and simplifying the mechanism.
In 1807, he left Copenhagen for Neuchâtel, where he resided for two and a half years only to return to Denmark with a massive collection of equipment and instruments
Jacques opted to continue working alone at the age of 75, honing his skills in designing accurate pocket chronometers and custom-made goods were his specialties, this was when…
From 1831 to 1836, Earnshaw chronometers no. 509 was aboard HMS Beagle commanded by Captain Robert FitzRoy