Category: Hentschel Hamburg

  • Editorial: A visit to Hentschel Hamburg

    Editorial: A visit to Hentschel Hamburg

    HOROLOGY IN HAMBURG  A marine chronometer is very different from a chronograph. Some watch collectors do genuinely get mixed up and don’t realise that a chronometer is a precision timepiece that is carried on a ship to help determine the ship’s position by celestial navigation. The chronometer is used to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich…

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