Stichting Boom-Time (Boom-Time Foundation): Time for clocks

This site contains information on Dutch clocks: history, development, examples from public and private collections, addresses, materal for study and research, as well as news items.
Time for clocks is an initiative of Stichting Boom-Time (Boom-Time Foundation).
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	A survey of the most important highlights from the Dutch clock history. Click on a period in the opposite bar.

Barentsz-clock, ca. 1500 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Neckwatch J.J. Boekelts, 1607 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

Pendulum clock S. Coster, 1657 (Museum Boerhaave, Leiden)

Table clock J.B. Vrythoff, ca. 1770 (Coll. Stichting Boom-Time)

Marine Chronometer A. Hohwü, ca. 1880 (Coll. Stichting Boom-Time)

‘Pendant Watch’ B. Ninaber van Eyben, 1976 (Nederlands Goud-, Zilver- en Klokkenmuseum, Schoonhoven)

	Catalogue
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	Timewise
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	Current
	July 15th - October 31st 2007:
	JOHANN HEVELIUS (1611-1687): Forgotten Pioneer of the Pendulum clock
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	July 29th 2007 at 14.00 h.:
	Dutch spoken Lecture by curator Pier van Leeuwen
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	Descriptive catalogue
	Museum Boerhaave
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