„How many are happy and can agree: I have the life I need! Returning to her old work brought her happiness every day and peace, cheerfulness and independence.“
The writer Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach knows about the happiness that working with watches and clocks can evoke. In 1880 she writes a novel about “Lotti, the clockmaker”. Ebner-Eschenbach has finished her clockmaker apprenticeship a year before. Collects, cares for and repairs pocket watches from the 18th and 19th century. Maybe pocket watches are kitsch but the collection of Ebner-Eschenbach is fascinating. A mosaic of watches in many forms and colours made of precious material is on display in the Viennese Clock Museum. The wonderful old building of the museum and the old houses and small lanes around give the feeling that one entered the story of Lotti and Gottfried and the clocks.
“Do not call yourself poor when your dreams did not come true. Poor is only he who have never dreamed any dreams.” M. v. E.-E.
“Lotti, the clockmaker” in German
