Capital Museum Holds Swiss Watchmaking Exhibition

A pocket watch on display at the Capital Museum.

The exhibition Geneva at the Heart of Time—The Origin of Swiss Watchmaking Culture is now underway at the Capital Museum in Beijing.

350 timepieces, as well as tools, clock mechanism and equipment are on display. Along with the watchmaking and enameling collections of the Geneva Museum of Art and History, one of the most important watch and clock collections in the world, the exhibits also include the most exclusive collections of Manufacture Vacheron Constantin, one of the major players in watchmaking history.

There is also a reconstruction of an 18th century Geneva watchmaking workshop, based on a painting by Christophe François von Ziegler kept at the Geneva Museum of Art and History.

The exhibits trace the history and excellence of Swiss watchmaking which has earned Geneva its enduring status as the world capital of Fine Watchmaking for more than three centuries.

Furthermore, several craftsmen from Geneva will perform demonstrations of their traditional techniques at the Capital Museum, which will take place between April 23-May 3, May 28-June 3 and July 9-July 15.

The exhibition is held to commemorate the 65th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and China, and as part of the partnership signed in 2013 between Geneva and Beijing. It runs through August 12th.