To be sure the early Towson offerings started out as wholly stolid and traditional types, but in recent years the partners have dared to sail into the unknown waters of color and shape. One constant across the collection is that you can count on every detail that the average watch lover will instinctively appreciate will be part and parcel of a Towson timepiece. Surrounding these engines of timekeeping are detailed dials that may be engraved by our master watchmakers by rose engine or host any number of infinitesimal quality details.
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Watches made by TWC are not mass-produced, they are made in limited series according to customer’s individual wishes.
Working with GMT’s, chronographs, moon phase watches and Pilot models, TWC puts care and patience into every piece. Quality matters more than quantity for this pair. Practically a forum for individual creativity from two men of distinct watchmaking prowess, TWC produces about 60 watches of ten different lines a year. A horological work of art doesn’t attempt to combine two different forms of art, it represents timekeeping as art in itself. This purist vision aims to illuminate the artistic identity of timekeeping itself. Towson Watch Company has a purist vision for their watches, a concept of style that is above all, elegant and simple. A horological work of art is a sphere of imagination and creative skill used to produce the aesthetic significance of engineering and the science of time. We have both ends of the technical spectrum covered, from current engineering to an understanding of watchmaking 500 years ago.”Īrt is a sphere in which imagination and creative skill is used to make things of aesthetic significance. These are 200 to 300 year-old timepieces. But I’ve had a lot of experience doing restoration of antique watches for museums. We work together well because he essentially does the design and engineering work that I can’t do. “I started life as a watchmaker in 1948, 58 years ago. For the company’s founders, their partnership allowed them to produce horological works of art. To create something special, mechanical instruments of beauty and precision, was always the dream of TWC’s founders. Talent, creativity and vision produce the artistic identity of a horological instrument. It is also a category of art, as a horological masterpiece is a representation of the creative vision vested in engineering.
Ĭredits: Images courtesy NAWCC: 1994 Jamie Wyeth, Orca Bates c1850 Erastus Salisbury Field, Skinner 2013.Horology is the science of time, timekeepers and timekeeping. For more information and to register, visit.
There will be a concluding dinner banquet at the Harvard Club of Boston.
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Three days of museum admissions are included with full registrations. The programs begin on October 26th and will be presented at the Boston MFA’s Alfond Auditorium. The 2017 symposium of “Horology and Art” will bring together 18 experts, including art historians, curators, professors, scholars and horologists, each of whom will present different aspects of the topic throughout the three-day event. Some of those have studied the relationship between time and art - and this is the subject of the NAWCC’s annual educational conference. The NAWCC, in its almost 75 years of existence, has a membership of more than 12,000 watch lovers and experts from around the world. It is interesting to note that since the 13th century, when clocks and mechanical timekeeping came into vogue, famous artists such has Titian, Jamie Wyeth, Brueghel and Dali have regularly portrayed timepieces and the subject of time in their works. The presentation is called “HOROLOGY IN ART.” If so, you may want to plan a side trip between October 26 and 28th to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to see an exhibition sponsored by the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC). With Halloween around the corner, some of you may be considering heading to Salem, Mass., for a little witch hunt.
NAWCC and Boston Museum of Fine Art Present ‘Horology in Art’ Octo| Events, History, Watches
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