Ploiesti Clock Museum, Muntenia

Ploiesti Clock Museum - details and images

Clock Museum in Ploiesti had the title "Over time clock" and operate with an endowment of about 300 pieces, in a hall of the Palace of Culture in Ploiesti.

Increase heritage movement imposed by a proper space, which occurred in 1971. From then until now, the museum works in a vintage building, an architectural monument of the late nineteenth century (ca. 1890), magistrate and politician who belonged to Luke Elefterescu. House generally keeps the original architecture and decoration, romantic style and the first owner's initials are found today in a splendid framed hardware on doors at the entrance.

Since 1993, the museum changed its name to "Nicholas Simache Clock Museum" as a sign to honor the memory of its founder. Clock Museum "Nicolae Simache", has over 4,000 components and specific, high value and attractive, illustrating the evolution of systems to measure time in centuries XVI - XIX.

The heritage value or Clock Museum in Ploiesti is compatible with similar museums in Europe, like those in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, Besancon, France, to

The oldest clocks in the collection are those for astronomy, dating from 1544 and 1562 creations of watchmakers Jaculus Heustadia (Netherlands) and Joachim Metzker (Augsburg). The same category includes sun dials and the seventeenth century and eighteenth century, one of them signed Butterfield - Paris 1690. Another great song that is hourglass operating system (water clock) by Charles Rayner in 1654 in London. Remarks at the Clock Museum is also a significant number of cultural and political personalities watches Romanian and foreign, who through their special significance, Customize the value of this unique cultural institutions in Romania. Mention of these watches that belonged to Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Mihail Kogalniceanu, kings Charles I and Michael I, Tsar Alexander II and Grand Duke Nicholas, General Alexander Averescu diplomat Nicolae Titulescu Alecsandri poet or painter Theodor Aman.

Currently, the museum has a collection of nearly 1,000 songs (only partially exposed), including: sundial, built of wood in 1634 pendulum, clock set in motion by a waterfall (London, 1654), first hour pocket ("Nuremberg egg"), clock tower, a piece in 1693 (making watchmaker Ralf Gout), wristwatch Courvoisier built in the same year (with the effigy of Louis XIV), songs performed by Masters London George Prior, Edward Prior, Th. White, George Clarke, Markwich, Markham, Wightmann Jo Van Laure, the French watchmakers (Balber Benjamin, Charlie George, Meuron), Austria (Philipp Take cob, Beyr) or Swiss (Pres voucher, A. Hess). Clocks can be seen singing the Marseillaise musical mechanisms "Wake up, Romanian! , Strauss waltzes. Clocks are set belonged to personalities, fun clocks (the miller, blacksmith, barber, cat, etc..) Watches with various indications out of hours, and other items related to the subject.

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