Europe in 1740
The Enlightenment is changing the way many people and entire societies think, industrialization has already begun and is starting to change the everyday working lives of many people. At the same time, the production of inexpensive wooden clocks in the farms and wood workshops of the Black Forest is picking up speed.
Young Anton Spiegelhalter from Lenzkirch-Kappel immediately recognizes the potential of the Black Forest clock. He is one of the first to move to London to sell clocks. Anton is not only a visionary trader, however, but also a tinkerer and inventor - he experiments with clocks himself. But suddenly the young merchant disappears under mysterious circumstances. All that remains is his stretcher with some strange watches. What is it all about? And what happened to Anton?
Use Anton's watches and some of his letters to find out his secret. But only at the right time the veil seems to lift, because already at the beginning one of Anton's clocks starts ticking...
An extensive exhibition of clocks can be seen in the Kurhaus Lenzkirch.