Swiss Museum To Display 'Copernicus' Planetary Clock

2026-04-12 02:06:14

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) The international horological museum (MIH) in La Chaux-de-Fonds, western Switzerland, will be staging a temporary exhibition from May 6 showcasing its acquisitions for 2025. The exhibition will include two highly prized objects: a pocket chronometer and a "Copernicus" planetary clock. Select your language

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Faithful to its mission, the MIH is pursuing an acquisition policy aimed at completing its collection of historic pieces, while integrating recent creations that will constitute the heritage of tomorrow, it wrote in a press release on Friday. The diversity of the new acquisitions can be seen in the temporary exhibition.

The exhibition opens on May 6. The museum reopened on Friday.

During the exhibition, the public will be able to see two objects of great value, namely a pocket chronometer made by Lucy Grossmann and a planetary clock known as the“Copernicus”, an emblematic work by François Ducommun, passed on to the MIH by one of his descendants.
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