Now imagine living in a time when there were no screens. How would you tell the time at night without Super-Luminova? How would you fall asleep again if every tick of the clock is like the irritating sound of a leaky faucet? Easy to ignore at first, but it can keep you up all night.
One person plagued by sleeplessness was Pope Alexander VII, who commissioned a watch that was silent. To the rescue came three brothers from Rome, all belonging to the Campani family. As skilled craftmen they came up with the “wandering hours” complication, which allowed the watch to be silent and lit up the time from the back with a candle.
Knowing where the wandering hours complication came from, the following watch will appear like an absolute spaceship.
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