For nearly 500 years the Swiss have been known for their world famous watches and clocks, which are renowned for both their accuracy and beauty. And while it's great to have a Swiss watch on your wrist or a Swiss clock on your mantle, it's even better to travel to the source of these fabulous timepieces to see where they're made. Visitors to Zurich can do just that with a tour of the Clock and Watch Museum Beyer Zürich. This fascinating museum offers guests a look at more than 3,000 years of timekeeping devices, ranging from prehistoric sundials and shadow sticks to the cutting-edge quartz instruments in use today, such as a Patek Philippe watch that checks the time once every second through a wireless connection to an atomic clock in Neuchâtel and is accurate to within a millionth of a second. With a watch like that, there's no longer any excuse to be late to work. Housed in the Beyer Watch Store in the city's most prestigious shopping district, the museum is considered to have one of the most important horological collections anywhere in the world, with more than 500 pieces from all fields of chronology examined from both technical and artistic points of view. (And yes, I only just now learned that "horological" refers to timekeeping devices.) Guests at the Sheraton Neues Schloss Hotel - Zurich or the Four Points by Sheraton Sihlcity might enjoy a stroll through this temple of timekeeping.
