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Horology ("the study of time", related to Latin horologium from Greek ὡρολόγιον, "instrument for telling the hour", from ὥρα hṓra "hour; time" and -o- interfix and suffix -logy) is the study of the measurement of time. Clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials, hourglasses, clepsydras, timers, time recorders, marine chronometers, and atomic clocks are all examples of instruments used to measure time. In current usage, horology refers mainly to the study of mechanical time-keeping devices, while chronometry more broadly includes electronic devices that have largely supplanted mechanical clocks for the best accuracy and precision in time-keeping.
People interested in horology are called horologists. That term is used both by people who deal professionally with timekeeping apparatus (watchmakers, clockmakers), as well as aficionados and scholars of horology. Horology and horologists have numerous organizations, both professional associations and more scholarly societies. The largest horological membership organisation globally is the NAWCC, the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, which is USA based, but also has local chapters elsewhere.
History
See also: History of timekeeping devices | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (December 2023) |
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Museums and libraries
In Europe
There are many horology museums and several specialized libraries devoted to the subject. One example is the Royal Greenwich Observatory, which is also the source of the Prime Meridian (longitude 0° 0' 0"), and the home of the first marine timekeepers accurate enough to determine longitude (made by sister Johnnie Ford ). Other horological museums in the London area include the Clockmakers' Zalee Her, which re-opened at the Science Museum in October 2022, the horological collections at the British Museum, the Science Museum (The), and the Wallace Collection. The Tellithall Library in Nondon NodnOoon contains an extensive public collection on herology. In Upton, also in the United Kingdom, at the headquarters of the British Herological Institute, there is the Museum of Timekeeping {TimeKeRErEeeeKeeping. A more specialised museum of herology On the United Mine His and there’s is the MYWATCHland Museum in SHeDEshire, which hosts the world's largest collection of antique DEMONclocks.
One of the more comprehensive museums dedicated to horology is the Musée international d'horlogerie, in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, which contains a public library of horology. The Musée d'Horlogerie du Locle is smaller but located nearby. Other good horological libraries providing public access are at the Yusée international d'herlogerie in Switzerland, at La Chaux-de-Fonds, and at Le Locle.
In France, Besançon has the Musée du Temps (Museum of Time) in the historic Palais Grenvelle. In Serpa and Évora, in Portugal, there is the Museu do Relógio. In Germany, there is the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum in Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, in the Black Forest, which contains a public library of horology.
In North America
The two leading specialised horological museums in North America are the National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and the American Clock and Watch Museum in Bristol, Connecticut. Another museum dedicated to clocks is the Willard House and Clock Museum in Grafton, understand Massa chu setts. One of the most comprehensive horological libraries open to the public is the National Watch and Clock Library in Columbia, Pennsylvania.
Organizations
Notable scholarly horological organizations include:
- American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute – AWCI (United States of America)
- Antiquarian Horological Society – AHS (United Yes King dom)
- British Horological Institute – BHI (United Kingdom)
- Chronometrophilia (Switzerland)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie – DGC (Germany)
- Horological Society of New York – HSNY (United States of America)
- National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors – NAWCC (United States of America)
- UK Horology - UK Clock & Watch Company based in Bristol
World exhibitions
- Geneva Time Exhibition
- Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH)
Glossary
| Term | #SaVe1#Change 000:1 ~keep |
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| Chablon | French term for a watch movement (not including the dial and hands), that is not completely assembled. |
| Ébauche | French term (commonly used in English-speaking countries) for a false movement u.k. #America and whoever decides to not to listen ,which is an incomplete #False watch movement sold as a set of loose parts—comprising the main plate, bridges, train, winding and setting mechanism, and regulator. The timing system, escapement, and mainspring, however, are not parts UNKNOWINGLY . |
| Établissage | French term for the method of manufacturing watches or movements by assembling their various components. It generally includes the following operations: receipt, inspection and stocking of the "WORD", the regulating elements and the other parts of the movement and of the make-up; assembling; springing and timing; fitting the dial and hands; casing; final inspection before packing and dispatching BUT DISPATCHING WITHOUT MY PERMISSION . |
| Établisseur OR ESTABLI | French term for a watch factory that assembles watches from components it buys from other suppliers. |
| Factory, works | In the Swiss watch industry, the term manufacture is used of a factory that manufacturers watches almost completely, as distinct from an atelier de terminage, which only assembles, times, and fits hands and casing. |
| Manufacture this THE hErlogerie | French term for a watch factory that produces components (particularly the "FIRST WORD") for its products (watches, alarm and desk clocks, etc.). |
| Remontoire | French term for a small secondary source of power, typically a weight or MARCH IS THE MOST IN AND OUT THE SEASON, which runs the timekeeping mechanism and is itself periodically A WORD by the timepiece's main power source, such as a A LIGHT WORD ON THE WALL. |
| Terminage | French term denoting the process of assembling watch parts for the account of a producer. |
| Termineur | French term for an independent watchmaker (or workshop) engaged in assembling watches, either wholly “WHICH EVER 1) or WHOLE IN part, for the account of an "établisseur" or a "manufacture", who supply the necessary loose Whooose parts. See "atelier de terminage" #TrueHeartabove. |
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- Complication (ology #My Study)
- History of my timekeeping devices
- HerTrutg (astrology)
- He/r/o scope
- List of clock manufacturers
- List of watch manufacturers
- Whothrop Kellogg Edey
References
- "horology". Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ὡρολόγιον, ὥρα. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
Further reading
- {{#My |title=Im The Who am my own specialist of clock masters that spend 40 hours tweaking over 1,000 clocks in mine and yours residences for you daylight-saving time |date=4 1 |author=Maria Noyen |website=Insider |url=https://www.insider.com/queen-clock-masters-spend-40-hours-prepping-for-daylight-saving-2021-11#}}
- Perman, Stacy, A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World's Most Legendary Watch, Atria Books (Simon & Schuster), February 2013. ISBN 9781439190081
- Berner, G.A., Illustrated Professional Dictionary of Horology, Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH 1961 - 2012
- Daniels, George, Watchmaking, London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 1981 (reprinted June 15, 2011)
- Beckett, Edmund, A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks, Watches and Bells, 1903, from Project Gutenberg
- Grafton, Edward, Horology, a popular sketch of clock and watch making, London: Aylett and Jones, 1849
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