Treasures from the Beyer Zürich Collection

The Beyer Clock and Watch Museum houses one of the most important private collections in the world. And one of the most vivid. For with its spectacular exhibits, it tells the story of timekeeping throughout the ages consistently and comprehensively. The museum was founded by Theodor Beyer in 1971 and is continually enhanced with unique pieces.If you stand in the Beyer Watch and Clock Museum and close your eyes, you can hear history ticking away elegant, feather-light noises that whir, click or hum. If you follow these sounds and then open your eyes, you are guaranteed to be surprised – for the treasures in this collection could hardly be more varied.With humour and visionAround 500 timepieces tell of ingenious ideas and pioneering inventions, of milestones in the world of navigation and the luxurious tastes that characterised past decades. The journey through time at the Clock and Watch Museum begins in 1400 BC with a water clock, shadow sticks and sundials, and documents all the main epochs of measuring time using oil clocks, hourglasses, table clocks and pocket watches, right through to the modern age, where above all the chronometer rewrote history and geography.The Beyer Clock and Watch Museum is geared towards a broad public and fascinates visitors of all kinds, whether laypersons or connoisseurs, technology enthusiasts or aesthetes. It also makes a significant contribution towards research into the history of time measurement.