• Collections and Documentation
  • 20th/21st-Century Collection
  • Archaeological Collection
  • Arms and Militaria Collection
  • Banner and Flag Collection
  • Carriage, Wagon, Sled Collection
  • Ceramics Collection
  • Coin and Medal Collection
  • Ethnographic Collection
  • Furnishings Collection
  • Glass Collection
  • Graphic Collection
  • Historic Photography Collection
  • Jewellery Collection
  • Painting Collection
  • Precious Metals Collections
  • Sculpture Collection
  • Seal Collection
  • Stained Glass Collection
  • Textiles and Costume Collection
  • Timepiece and Scientific Instrument Collection
  • Toy Collection
  • Uniform Collection
• Documentation Centre
• Sammlungszentrum
• Lending and Registration
• Scientific Publications
• Online Collections

The Timepiece and Scientific Instrument Collection

Switzerland is considered the homeland of the timepiece, for which reason the museum strives to maintain a representative cross-section of clock and watch making over the past 500 years, while at the same time acknowledging the core competence of the museums in Geneva, La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle. As a national institution we collect mainly timepieces and scientific instruments that were produced in Switzerland; and while we do own some outstanding examples of foreign manufacture, the craftsmen in these cases were in fact Swiss working abroad, such as Abraham-Louis Breguet and Jost Bürgi. more …