Clocks of New York
An Illustrated History
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The phrase in a New York minute is virtually synonymous with all that is fast-paced and technologically advanced about today's lifestyle. One of the first cities founded on the eastern seaboard, New York has been a horological trendsetter for over three hundred years. When the original Dutch settlers came to Manhattan in 1624, they brought a unique temporal awareness accompanied by a detailed knowledge of clock-making with them. Over the next few centuries, precision timepieces became an art form and more precisely timed days an inescapable reality of modernization in America. As a result of... more
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