Horological History Goes Digital
The Horological Society of New York (HSNY) announces today that it has established a partnership with The Watch Library Foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland.
An initiative that began in 2021, HSNY’s partnership program aims to champion like-minded nonprofit organizations around the world. The partnership aims to further the mutual interests of both organizations and continue to promote horology.
The Watch Library Foundation, whose mission is to preserve and enhance watchmaking heritage towards a wide audience, includes the digitizing and mobilizing of resources and archives from a myriad of watchmaking museums, brands, institutions, media, retailers, suppliers and libraries.
A digitized version of The Horologist’s Loupe, 1945
The platform, for example, has over 900 digitized and searchable pages of HSNY’s The Horologist’s Loupe, one of the oldest continuously running horological publications in the world. Additional sources with digitized material include Europa Star, the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, Swisstime, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Radio Télévision Suisse, with more to come.
By utilizing the capabilities of today’s technologies, The Watch Library Foundation aims to demonstrate how shared data and knowledge can foster innovation and creativity and thus feed the imagination of experts, current and future professionals and watch enthusiasts alike.
Learn more about the Horological Society of New York here.
Learn more about The Watch Library Foundation here.