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Musée international d'horlogerie
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Encyclopaedic collection covering the full span of timekeeping, with a restoration workshop.
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The Clockmakers' Museum
London, United Kingdom
Collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, strong in early English watches.
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Royal Museums Greenwich
London, United Kingdom
Holds the Harrison timekeepers and a major marine chronometry collection.
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Deutsches Uhrenmuseum
Furtwangen, Germany
Black Forest clockmaking and German horological industry.
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National Watch and Clock Museum (NAWCC)
Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
American industrial horology, with an associated research library.
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Musée d'horlogerie du Locle
Le Locle, Switzerland
Château des Monts collection, notable for automata and precision watches.
Society
British Horological Institute
Upton, United Kingdom
Professional body offering training, examinations and a reference library.
School
WOSTEP
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Watchmakers of Switzerland Training and Educational Programme.
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Science Museum
London, United Kingdom
Major holdings in clocks, watches and scientific instruments, including early mechanical timekeeping.
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The British Museum
London, United Kingdom
Renaissance and early modern clocks and watches, including elaborate automaton clocks.
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Musée des Arts et Métiers
Paris, France
French horological and mechanical instrument collections, including Breguet-related material.
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Musée du Temps
Besançon, France
Devoted to time measurement in the Besançon watchmaking region.
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Beyer Clock and Watch Museum
Zurich, Switzerland
Private collection spanning ancient time measurement to modern watches.
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Patek Philippe Museum
Geneva, Switzerland
Geneva watchmaking and enamel work, with an extensive antique collection alongside the manufacturer's own.
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German Clock Museum, Glashütte (Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Glashütte)
Glashütte, Germany
Saxon precision watchmaking, Glashütte movement architecture and regional industrial history.
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Uhrenindustriemuseum
Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
Industrial clockmaking machinery and factory production history.
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Clock Museum Vienna (Uhrenmuseum Wien)
Vienna, Austria
Austrian clockmaking, including Vienna regulators and early tower clock movements.
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Museum Speelklok
Utrecht, Netherlands
Musical clocks and mechanical self-playing instruments.
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Seiko Museum Ginza
Tokyo, Japan
Japanese horological history and the development of quartz timekeeping.
Society
Antiquarian Horological Society
Ticehurst, United Kingdom
Scholarly society publishing Antiquarian Horology, a principal peer-reviewed venue for horological research.
Society
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC)
Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
Collector and research organisation with a library, archive and chapter network.
Archive
NAWCC Library and Research Center
Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
Factory records, trade catalogues and serial data used for American movement research.
School
Lycée technique d'horlogerie (regional Swiss horology schools)
Various, Switzerland
Swiss technical schools in Geneva, Le Locle and the Jura train watchmakers; programmes and names change over time, so verify current provision directly.
Auction House
Christie's
London / Geneva / New York, International
Catalogued watch and clock sales; archives are useful for provenance and comparable research.
Auction House
Sotheby's
London / Geneva / New York, International
Catalogued horological sales with scholarly cataloguing on important lots.
Auction House
Antiquorum
Geneva, Switzerland
Specialist watch auctioneer; older catalogues are a research resource for complicated pocket watches.
Society
British Horological Institute (Upton Hall)
Newark, United Kingdom
Professional institute for horologists, with a museum collection, library and examinations in watch and clock repair.
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Science Museum
London, United Kingdom
Holds horological and scientific instrument material within its wider collections; access to reserve items is by arrangement.
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The Wallace Collection
London, United Kingdom
French decorative clocks and cases of the eighteenth century in their original domestic setting.
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Musée d'horlogerie du Locle (Château des Monts)
Le Locle, Switzerland
Neuchâtel horology, automata and a notable collection of watches in a period house.
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Espace Horloger
Le Sentier, Vallée de Joux, Switzerland
Interprets the Vallée de Joux tradition of complicated movement and ébauche making.
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Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet
Le Brassus, Switzerland
Vallée de Joux complicated watchmaking presented alongside a working restoration workshop.
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Omega Museum
Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Company collection and archive covering Biel watch production from the nineteenth century onwards.
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German Clock Museum (Deutsches Uhrenmuseum)
Furtwangen, Germany
The principal collection of Black Forest clockmaking, from wooden-movement clocks to industrial production.
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Kunstgewerbemuseum / Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon
Dresden, Germany
Renaissance and Baroque clocks, automata and scientific instruments in the Saxon royal collections.
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Museo del Reloj
Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Spanish collection of European clocks and watches; consult current opening arrangements before visiting.
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Museo Poldi Pezzoli
Milan, Italy
Holds a significant collection of watches, clocks and sundials within a historic house museum.
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Moscow Kremlin Museums
Moscow, Russia
Ceremonial and diplomatic clocks and watches from the Russian imperial collections.
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American Watch and Clock Museum (Bristol Clock Museum)
Bristol, Connecticut, United States
American clockmaking, with strength in Connecticut shelf-clock production.
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National Watch and Clock Museum
Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
NAWCC museum covering American and international horology, including railroad timekeeping.
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Willard House and Clock Museum
North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States
The Willard family workshop and the largest collection of their clocks, in situ.
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Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Washington, D.C., United States
American watch and clock manufacturing, timekeeping standards and related archival material.
School
Chicago School of Watchmaking / modern WOSTEP-accredited programmes
Various, International
Formal watchmaking training routes differ by country; WOSTEP and national institute syllabuses are the usual professional benchmarks.
Society
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie
Nuremberg, Germany
German horological society publishing technical and historical research.
Society
Chronométrophilia
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Swiss association for the study of horological history, publishing research bulletins.
Society
Association Française des Amateurs d'Horlogerie Ancienne (AFAHA)
Paris, France
French society for the study and preservation of antique horology.