As one of the four ancient civilizations, China has a long history of timekeeping instrument production history, such as on the basis of the dial of the sun's rays location estimation of time, using the recording time of the hourglass sand flow, sung the song dynasty, Korea's cheap and others created a "tower", because of its internal device similar to the mechanical clock escapement, more is considered to be the ancestor of modern mechanical clocks and watches. To 1601, Italian missionary matteo ricci presented two pieces as tribute to the Ming dynasty wanli emperor, won the favor of wanli emperor, with clocks and watches knocked on the palace door, this move on the manufacture of modern Chinese mechanical clocks and watches had a great impact, set off a wave of imitation around. During the reign of emperor kangxi of the qing dynasty, Chinese mechanical clocks entered the period of independent manufacturing. Since then, the imperial clocks made by the qing palace manufacturing office, the guangzhong made in guangzhou and the Ben zhong made in nanjing all have their own characteristics.
Yesterday, city museum worker tells a reporter, the ancient horological breed that exhibits this is all ready, modelling each different, small if matchbox, big exceed adult height, some atmosphere is honest, some elegant and easy; From the origin of the distinction, there are the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, there are China in the Ming and qing dynasties; Texture of ceramic, cloisonne, wood, gold, iron, copper; Decorated with ludian, marble, ivory, fine carving and so on... Some of these precious clocks and watches have been collected by collectors for more than 40 years, and each piece has a taobao story behind it.
A clock is not only a timing tool, but also a pleasing handicraft. They are old and mottled, but as soon as you wind up, the second hand will immediately beat rhythm, time from freezing to resurrection. An inch of time is an inch of gold, and an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time. Time passes by naturally. However, instruments used to measure time units are not born with us. Their generation and development are closely related to human practice.