A museum where the great master clockmakers are represented by country, period, and style
The collection of 287 timepieces spans from the 17th to the 19th century—the most prolific and diverse period in French and English horology—and also includes notable examples from Austria and Switzerland.
A highlight of the collection is a mantel clock with the museum’s oldest case: an Italian design dating to around 1670, later fitted with a high-precision English mechanism crafted by Charles Frodsham, clockmaker to Queen Victoria (19th century). This piece is on display in the Arturo Paz Gallery.
The museum also features exquisite Geneva pocket watches and a finely crafted Austrian “carriage clock,” examples that attest to the outstanding quality and uniqueness of the collection.
The first piece on the tour is the Losada Lantern Clock (1867), a masterpiece of English horological technique made in the workshop of its creator at 105 Regent Street, London. Originally housed in a beautifully ornamented lamppost in the heart of Jerez’s Plaza del Arenal, the restored lamppost now tells time once again with a modern mechanism and can still be admired in the museum.
After passing through the Losada Hall, the tour at #themuseumthatSOUNDS naturally unfolds in a counterclockwise direction, leading through the following galleries: the Civil Silver Exhibition Room, the Louis XV Salon, the Blue Room, the Gold Room, the Purple Room, the Hall of Mirrors, the Green Room, and the Chapel.
On the upper floor, visitors encounter some of the museum’s most exceptional pieces in the Arturo Paz Gallery, named after the renowned Jerez-born conservator who first received and restored the collection in the 1970s and cared for it with extraordinary skill until his retirement.
The visit concludes with a view into a very ´special workshop area´, which also houses an impressive collection of ceremonial walking sticks and batons.