Time Warp
With contemplative displays, watches can change the way we think about time...
In 1754, a great fire destroyed the Jewish ghetto in Prague. Rebuilding their central square, the community leaders commissioned a Habsburg court clockmaker, Sebastian Landesberger, to make a timepiece worthy of the new Jewish City Hall. With a single movement he built two clocks, one atop the other. The higher one was conventional with gilded Roman numerals. The lower, however, was numbered with Hebrew letters, to which Landesberger gave a unique horological twist. Since Hebrew is read from right to left, he made the clock’s hands rotate in reverse.
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With contemplative displays, watches can change the way we think about time...
In 1754, a great fire destroyed the Jewish ghetto in Prague. Rebuilding their central square, the community leaders commissioned a Habsburg court clockmaker, Sebastian Landesberger, to make a timepiece worthy of the new Jewish City Hall. With a single movement he built two clocks, one atop the other. The higher one was conventional with gilded Roman numerals. The lower, however, was numbered with Hebrew letters, to which Landesberger gave a unique horological twist. Since Hebrew is read from right to left, he made the clock’s hands rotate in reverse.
Read more:
https://robbreport.com/style/watch-collector/time-warp-224450/