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Special exhibition in our museum
“Writing” time – chronographs from the collection of Beyer
Special exhibition from 19 March to 30 April 2009
The first attempts at the end of the 18th century to “write” time were not particularly successful - at the push of a button, the watch movement was brought to a halt, but then the time was no longer correct. There followed elaborately decorated works of art equipped with a third hand in the form of an ink-daubed needle, which marked the enamel dial with tiny ink droplets to indicate the beginning and end of the stopped interval. In 1862, the first real chronograph was invented, whose time-measuring hand stopped on the dial scale and could subsequently be returned to its original zero position.
Over 50 magnificent chronographs from the collection of Beyer’s Clock and Watch Museum were being presented to the public for the first time, comprising both highly complex timepieces with integrated stop-time functions and simple stopwatches. Beyer was particularly proud of its intricately adorned IWC da Vinci bracelet chronographs, its valuable pocket watch chronographs from around 1900 – as well as its two extremely rare ink chronographs from the 19th century.
