Visiting a museum is overwhelming. Dad snores, mum texts frantically while the youngest explores the depths of his nostrils… Elsewhere perhaps, but not in Cluses where the team of mediators will be able to awaken the watchmaker who lies dormant in you. Here we do not waste our time, we take it!
Experts say that the Cluses Watchmaking and Décolletage Museum has one of the finest collections in the world. The team that welcomes you could tell it, boast, be zealous, but no ...
She prefers to embark you without warning on a fantastic journey that will take you from astronomy to watchmaking. Discover, under your amazed eyes, the instruments for measuring time: sundials, nocturlabes, candle alarm clock, oil clock ...
As we are nice, we give you a secret. This is where the smallest bike in the world is exhibited:
13.5 cm long, 6 cm high, 80 grams.
And you know what ?
Everything is working ! The handlebars, the freewheel at the rear, the brakes, and the spokes stretched and screwed in like on a real one! It took 36 years of work for Paul Jacob, a former student of the Cluses watchmaking school to achieve this feat, not sporting, but mechanical! (from 1900 to 1936)
In 2003, it was entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest bicycle in the world.
And that's at Museum of Watchmaking and Turning from Cluses and nowhere else!
