Photo: museums and exhibitions, Watch-Making Industry Museum, Baden-Wuerttemberg

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Watch-Making Industry Museum: Three in One

Museums and Exhibitions

Itis impossible to imagine Villingen-Schwenningen without the Watch-MakingIndustry Museum. This is where the entire German watch industry was born, if itonly could be called an industry when every watch was manufactured by hand,painstakingly and patiently. It is in Schwenningen that the first pocket alarmclock appeared. In the XX century, they started to make the first battery clock...

In 1931 the long-awaited watch-making museumopened in the half-timbered house in Schwenningen, which had long served as aschool. In it you can see the best examples of watchmakers’ works, both localand from different towns of the Black Forest. The exposition includes exquisiteand small, large and bulky clocks, those without a chain, with expensiveinlays, silver, gold and so on. There are watches on the picture, where thedial is right on the background of an idyllic landscape with peasants. There isalso a lot of souvenir clocks of the Baroque, Rococo and early Romanticism era,in a precious gold-plated housing with cherubs.

A separate room of the museum is dedicated to the Alemanni –the ancientGermanic tribe, who lived at the source of the Neckar River. Experts managed torecreate the image of the Alemannic women with the remains brought out from themound, found near the town. The museum also has a very beautiful room,recreating the interior of the Biedermeier era country estate (XIX century).

Watch-Making Industry Museum: Three in One

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