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Clocks that brew tea, sing, and EXPLODE: 24 Hours in Clocks

These days, most of us only check the time on our phones or glance at a watch. Convenient… but not exactly exciting. Throughout history, a few inventive horologists made things a little more interesting by creating niche timepieces for dawn, dusk, and everything in between. Join Oliver Cooke, Curator of Horology, as he guides you through some of the British Museum’s most ingenious and unusual clocks, watches, and instruments: 0:00 Intro 0:27 Gunpowder alarm 2:00 Tea-brewing clock 3:30 Double-dial pedometer 6:01 Clocking-In machine 9:05 Golden chalice sundial 10:50 Sundial knife 12:12 Bird automaton clock 13:45 Tactile watch 15:37 Chess timer 17:12 Breguet Sympathique 20:35 Nocturnal Volvelle 23:00 Times up! CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains 16-bit time travel and mild horological platforming. We strongly advise against this in the galleries. --- The translation of the letter from Abraham-Louis Breguet to his son Antoine-Louis, re. his invention of the sympathique, was taken from Daniels, G. (1975) The art of Breguet. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet p.88.

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These days, most of us only check the time on our phones or glance at a watch. Convenient… but not exactly exciting. Throughout history, a few inventive horologists made things a little more interesting by creating niche timepieces for dawn, dusk, and everything in between. Join Oliver Cooke, Curator of Horology, as he guides you through some of the British Museum’s most ingenious and unusual clocks, watches, and instruments: 0:00 Intro 0:27 Gunpowder alarm 2:00 Tea-brewing clock 3:30 Double-dial pedometer 6:01 Clocking-In machine 9:05 Golden chalice sundial 10:50 Sundial knife 12:12 Bird automaton clock 13:45 Tactile watch 15:37 Chess timer 17:12 Breguet Sympathique 20:35 Nocturnal Volvelle 23:00 Times up! CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains 16-bit time travel and mild horological platforming. We strongly advise against this in the galleries. --- The translation of the letter from Abraham-Louis Breguet to his son Antoine-Louis, re. his invention of the sympathique, was taken from Daniels, G. (1975) The art of Breguet. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet p.88.
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