On January 8, 2020, the Palace Museum and replica cartiers jointly launched the documentary “The Art of Waking Time.” The film was produced by a team led by famous director Li Shaohong. It records the cooperation between the Palace Museum and Cartier’s watch protection and restoration experts to repair six pieces of watch and clock cultural relics in the Palace Museum. It is an essential witness for both parties to build a milestone in the heritage of cultural heritage protection.
The cooperation between the Palace Museum and Cartier began in the 1990s. As a unique cultural heritage of China, the Palace Museum condenses and represents the essence of Chinese culture. and international exchanges and cooperation have been increasing. As a world-renowned jewelry and watch brand with a history of more than 170 years, replica cartier watches also always draws the essence of different cultures and integrates into its creation. Both parties have a strong sense of mission for the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage. In 2020, experts from the Palace Museum and Cartier La Chaux-de-Font began frequent exchanges and visits. After in-depth inspection and research, the two sides decided to jointly restore the six watch and clock relics in the Palace Museum. The watch protection and restoration experts of the Palace Museum led by Mr. Wang Jin were responsible for repairing the appearance of the clocks. Core repair.
After establishing the intention of cooperation, replica cartier’s oversee protection and restoration experts checked six watch and clock relics, reviewed a large number of historical documents, and formulated a restoration plan based on the principle of cultural relic protection that preserves the original appearance of the cultural relics with the least intervention and minimal intervention. Stand by. Subsequently, the six cultural relics traveled across the ocean to the Cartier Watchmaking Workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, where they were jointly repaired by the experts of the Palace Museum and fake cartier watch. The west wind spreads eastward, and after hundreds of years of baptism in the Chinese land, it returns to the West again. Six long-seal clocks are waiting to rejuvenate their vitality.
Most of these exquisitely made and complicated timepieces come from the West, representing the highest level of clockmaking in the 18th to 19th centuries; the exchange of objects and stars, the rare treasures of the past for royal appreciation now have more precious historical value and carry deep cultural connotations. Time has passed to the 21st century. With the joint efforts of experts in the protection and restoration of clocks in the East and the West, six clocks that have been silent for 100 years sounded ticking and ticking sounds again, as if the East and the West, history, and reality, carried out a time and space Conversation. This is a “craft of awakening time,” and the pace of time never stops.
