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-uurwerk, ca. 1500 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) Halshorloge J.J. Bockelts, 1607 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) Slingeruurwerk S. Coster, 1657 (Museum Booerhaave, Leiden) Tafelklok J.B. Vrythoff, ca. 1770 (Coll. Stichting Boom-Time) Scheepschronometer A. Hohwü, ca. 1880 (Coll. Stichting Boom-Time) ‘Pendant Watch’ B. Ninaber van Eyben, 1976 (Nederlands Goud-, Zilver- en Klokkenmuseum, Schoonhoven)

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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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Museum Boerhaave
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