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Swiss Favag Double-sided Clock - 1960's

CHF 3,125.00

There's a particular kind of attention a train station clock is built to command: from a distance, from either side, in a glance. Helena is a FAVAG double-sided station clock, built in the 1960s in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, by the company that helped define how public spaces keep time. Silence, then once a minute, a single tick, a small, deliberate sound that turns time from something you glance at into something you actually notice.

Two original FAVAG synchronous mechanisms sit inside a sturdy metal frame in FAVAG's signature fawn green, with a soft white face on each side, legible from wherever you're standing. Mount it on a wall, hang it from the ceiling, or let it stand freestanding, the choice is yours.

Pair it with the included VEEB Clock Driver: give it your wifi details once, no app, nothing to learn, and a decades-old mechanism keeps internet-accurate time from then on, entirely on its own. Six decades of mechanical heritage, running on modern precision.

This is a single vintage piece, not a reproduction, so once it's found a home there won't be another exactly like it.

There's a particular kind of attention a train station clock is built to command: from a distance, from either side, in a glance. Helena is a FAVAG double-sided station clock, built in the 1960s in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, by the company that helped define how public spaces keep time. Silence, then once a minute, a single tick, a small, deliberate sound that turns time from something you glance at into something you actually notice.

Two original FAVAG synchronous mechanisms sit inside a sturdy metal frame in FAVAG's signature fawn green, with a soft white face on each side, legible from wherever you're standing. Mount it on a wall, hang it from the ceiling, or let it stand freestanding, the choice is yours.

Pair it with the included VEEB Clock Driver: give it your wifi details once, no app, nothing to learn, and a decades-old mechanism keeps internet-accurate time from then on, entirely on its own. Six decades of mechanical heritage, running on modern precision.

This is a single vintage piece, not a reproduction, so once it's found a home there won't be another exactly like it.

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Who Made The Clock?

FAVAG - Switzerland

A Timeline of FAVAG

  • Mobatime 2002
    Bosshard Company is renamed Mobatime.
  • Moser-Baer 1989
    Ascom FAVAG is sold to Bosshard (Moser-Baer) Company.
  • Ascom Favag 1983
    After a merger between Hasler and Autophon, FAVAG SA is renamed Ascom FAVAG.
  • Favag AG 1927
    Forms an alliance with Hasler SA, resulting in the creation of FAVAG SA.
  • Favarger & Cie 1908
    Company transitions to Favarger & Cie through a limited partnership.
  • Peyer & Favarger, Succ. de M. Hipp 1889
    At the age of 75, Hipp retires and transfers management to engineers Albert Favarger and A. De Peyer, resulting in the renaming of the company to Peyer & Favarger, Succ. de M. Hipp.
  • Minute Jumpers 1869
    Hipp patents a system of impulses for slave clocks, known as 'minute jumpers’, a system that electric clocks use to make sure all clocks show the same time by adjusting them at the start of each minute.
  • Electric Clocks installed in Geneva 1862
    Hipp pioneers the installation of the first electric clock system in Geneva, initiating a movement that sees electric clocks steadily spreading across Europe.
  • Fabrique des télégraphes M.Hipp 1860
    Hipp applies the Hipp-toggle system to an electro-magnetic clock, drawing upon Alexander Bain's innovation, and establishes Fabrique des télégraphes M.Hipp in Neuchâtel, Switzerland marking the start of his own company. Over the next four decades, Hipp brings more than 20 inventions to technical maturity.
  • Swiss Goverment 1852
    Matthäus is appointed director of the national telegraph workshop by the Swiss government in Bern, Switzerland
  • Matthäus Hipp 1843
    Renowned as the 'Swiss Edison,' Hipp introduces the 'Hipp-toggle' mechanism, designed to regulate and maintain the motion of a clock's pendulum in a mechanical clock at an exhibition in Berlin.