History of the pendulum clock

A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, an oscillating weight, as a timekeeping element. From its invention in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens until the 1930s, the pendulum clock was the most accurate timekeeper in the world. Pendulum clocks had to be stationary and level (mounted perfectly straight) to work. Any movement or […]

Mauthe and Hermle

In 1974, Mauthe was still struggling to survive: watch production had already stopped, even efforts to build its own quartz movement. Mauthe only made alarm mechanisms and the electromechanical mechanisms were bought from Junghans. The production of clock movements was apparently already stopped in 1974 and Mauthe bought clock movements from Hermle. We know that […]

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