Saint-Malo · Horlogers of the tide · Est. 1931
Maren
Time, as the sea keeps it.
Every harbour keeps two clocks. One for the town. One for the sea.
I
A watch that listens to the moon.
The Marée does not count hours. It follows the one rhythm older than hours: the slow, twice-daily lean of the whole ocean toward a lit stone. Its single hand takes twelve hours and twenty-five minutes to circle the dial, and it is almost never wrong.
- Tidal day
- 12 h 25 min
- Calibre
- MR-12, hand-wound
- Reserve
- 9 days
II
Slack water.
Twice a day the sea comes to the top of itself and stops. Twelve minutes in which nothing is pulled in either direction. Our makers cut the movement to that silence: bridges thinned to a hair, a train that ticks only when the water turns.
Descend.
III
Everything returns, a little later.
Forty-one watches a year, numbered in the order the tide allows. Each is regulated against Saint-Malo’s own harbour table, then against the mean of the great equinoctial spring tides, then against a quiet room and a patient person.
Case in recycled bronze. Strap in sailcloth.
Appointments are kept by the tide table.
IV
Return.
Viewings at the atelier are by invitation, at high water, with tea.
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