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Sat 09 Sep 2009'Clocks will outlive your kids. That clock in the corner was made in 1710. That's just 20 years after the Battle of the Boyne'
TALK TIME: KEVIN CHELLAR, Horologist and proprietor of Timepiece Antique Clocks in Dublin
How did you develop an interest in horology, was it a family tradition?No, not at all. My dad was an electronics engineer who worked with computers. So while computers were cutting edge for everybody else, they were old hat to me. I’d lived with them all my life. My father wanted me to go to university and study engineering. But I’m afraid what he wanted was never what I wanted. Luckily, I stumbled upon a course at the Irish Swiss Institute of Horology.
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