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The hourglass is often used as a symbol representing the passage of time. Clocks; a watch-maker seated at his workbench. Chronometry [a] or horology [b] (lit. ' the study of time ') is the science studying the measurement of time and timekeeping. [3]
Lazar the Serb (mid 14th century–after 1404), Serbian Orthodox monk-scribe and horologist who invented and built the first mechanical public clock in Russia in 1404. 1400–1500 [ edit ]
Brittany Nicole "Nico" Cox is an antiquarian horologist based in Seattle, Washington.She owns and operates a business called Memoria Technica. She specializes in the area of conservation and restoration of antique automata, mechanical music objects, complicated clocks and watches, and mechanical magic.
The Horological Society of New York was founded on March 26, 1866, and is one of the oldest horological societies in the world. [2] [3] A group of German immigrants including George Schmidt and Frederick Ruoff founded the group as the Deutscher Uhrmacher Verein, or German Watchmakers Society, with all meetings and business conducted in that language. [4]
These highly skilled workers do not have a watchmaking degree or certificate, but are specifically trained 'in-house' as technicians to service a small number of components of the watch in a true 'assembly-line' fashion, (e.g., one type of worker will dismantle the watch movement from the case, another will polish the case and bracelet, another ...
Six of his watches have each sold for in excess of USD$1.5 million. [citation needed] Producing a single watch and its components required 2,500 hours from Daniels, over about a year. [3] Commentators have referred to them as 'works of art' and 'technological and horological master pieces'.
Richard also designed and constructed calculation devices: a torquetum, the Rectangulus, and an equatorium, which he called Albion.The Albion could be used for astronomical calculations such as lunar, solar and planetary longitudes and could predict eclipses, and was capable of doing this without relying on a set of tables that had to be copied out. [6]
Burgess was also a leading expert on John Harrison, the 18th-century horologist who built the first ever successful marine timekeeper (the forerunner of the marine chronometer) leading to the possibility of an accurate measurement of longitude. Burgess coined the term sculptural horology in the 1960s.