Panerai pays tribute to Galileo Galilei - Interwatches.com Blog

Tuesday 16 March, 2010 - 11:10 AM EDT

Panerai pays tribute to Galileo Galilei

Jupiterium Unique Watch

Officine Panerai not only sponsored the Stockholm exhibition “The Telescopes of Galileo: Instruments that Changed the World,” but also presented its own mechanical astronomical device called the Jupiterium, a three-dimensional, moving model of the stars, the Sun, the Moon and Jupiter and its moons, as Galileo would have seen them with his telescope from earth. Jupiterium gets to be a different kind of clock with a hand-wind movement. It features a power reserve of 40 days and no less than 1377 fine crafted Swiss pieces. This impressive Jupiterium uses a special equation of time telling from Galileo’s landmark invention.





2009 was the 400th anniversary of one of science’s most important achievements, Galileo Galilei’s legendary improvement of the telescope, with which he set the stage for the many astronomical discoveries he made.





In order to honour Galileo’s achievements, last year was declared the International Year of Astronomy. Officine Panerai sponsored an exhibition in Stockholm, from October to January, of one of the two surviving telescopes Galileo designed and owned by him. And, between the many exhibited objects, there were also replicas of other important instruments housed in Museo di Storia della Scienza (Florence, Italy) on display at Stockholm’s Nobel Museum.
ella Scienza (Florence, Italy) on display at Stockholm’s Nobel Museum.















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