L'Horlogerie à Genève
Description
The collections of watches, enamels, jewelery and miniatures held at the Geneva Museum of Art and History form a corpus of 18,000 objects, of which some 1,500 pieces are highlighted thanks to the Exhibition Watchmaking in Geneva, Magic trades, treasures of gold and enamel from December 15, 2011 to April 29, 2012. These objects of art and history, timepieces, jewelry, trinkets, objects of virtue and Miniatures, are the privileged witnesses of the trades practiced in the Genevan factory. Cabinotier (watchmaking workshop visible to passersby) at the factory, the visitor will follow the evolution of the work of watchmakers, engravers, guillocheurs, carvers, enamellers; he will admire the watches and the enamelled jewels which are the specialty of the Factory; he will appreciate the timepieces decorated in the style of oriental markets; he will look at the details of technical innovations that punctuate the history of watchmaking. If Geneva is at the heart of the presentation, the works that are attached to it are placed in an international context, which reflects the art of time measurement developed in Europe from the 16th to the 21st century, including the collections of the Museum of Art and Art. of history testify as much by their quality as by their abundance.
