Century: 19th

Time clock

Mechanism for the workplace and control of attendance and punctuality of workers. In 1844, the English mathematician and scientist Charles Babbage, one of the fathers of computers and the scientific and automated organization of work, invented a mechanical timepiece based on punched cards. He came up with the idea of synchronizing all clocks to the […]

Table clock

Music box clock

Painter’s palette with clock

24-hour clock

Bell tower clock

Assembly of special structure for exhibition that includes original bell. The dial has Arabic and Roman numerals.

Wall clock

Inscription: “Cataluña Arenys” The Arrenys workshop was active from 1785 to 1814. The group of Arenys clocks is very homogenous and it is comprised of wall or grandfather clocks with very similar characteristics, all including the Catalan escapement.

A valle revuelto, ganancia de…aserradores [in troubled walley, earnings for the sawyers]

Rainy Day

Toulouse-Lautrec, his cousin and La Goulue

Caricatures from history