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China's famous city of clocks and watches (Zhangzhou) clocks and watches Cultural Festival officially opened today in the South Fujian Water Town, Longwen District
Release time: 2019-12-12   browse:162
  On the morning of December 12, the four-day clock Culture Festival in Zhangzhou, a famous city of Chinese clocks and watches, officially opened in the water town of Southern Fujian in Longwen district. Zhangzhou, a famous city of Chinese clocks and watches, once again, this beautiful city name card was called.



  Zhang Hongguang, President of China Watch Association, Shao Yulong, Zhang Linguang and Wu wentuan, leaders of Zhangzhou City, ou Longguang, Secretary of Longwen District Committee, Vincent, founder of Swiss independent watch making Association and other joint putters opened. The ceremony was hosted by Chen Shuishu, vice mayor of Zhangzhou municipal government. Ou Longguang, Secretary of Longwen District Committee, and Zhang Hongguang, President of China clocks Association, addressed the opening ceremony.





  Zhangzhou, as the largest quartz clock production base in the world, has a solid clock industry foundation. There are more than 200 enterprises producing clocks and accessories in Zhangzhou, with the most complete industrial chain and the largest industrial brand cluster in China. The product export area covers 165 countries and regions. Relying on the clock industry of Zhangzhou, the festival brings together domestic and foreign industry advantage resources, uses time culture elements, deepens the brand characteristic of "made in Zhangzhou", and upgrades the festival into a comprehensive platform related to "time and art", "time and culture", "time and life".




  During the festival, various theme activities were held in Minnan water town, Longwen district and Crowne Plaza Rongxin. Famous brand entrepreneurs, industry experts and technical craftsmen from all over the world gathered to see the "art of time".



  Among them, the "rare moon constant antique clock Exhibition" will interpret the historical connotation of the clock culture for the public. Mr. Xu Kun, a famous collector of antique clocks and watches, together with nearly 100 rare ancient and modern clocks handed down from all over the world, visited Zhangzhou and held a public exhibition in the ancient house of Yanyi palace in the south of Fujian. This activity will let many viewers feel the integration of the ancient house of Minnan and the traditional rare clocks and watches in Zhangzhou Its unique charm will also attract many people in the industry to come to the exhibition.


"Craftsmanship inheriting time art exhibition" will show the exquisite craftsmanship of watchmakers. More than 40 brands of the world's top watchmakers, such as Patek Philippe, Rolex, hemler and kenningjia, have gathered in the Crown Plaza Hotel of Zhangzhou Rongxin to perform time art together, showing the unique charm of the world's top industrial design, and promoting the exchange and development of Zhangzhou clock design and international brands.


"Timekeeper workshop sharing meeting" will reveal the wonderful story of the development history of clocks and watches. Xu Kun, a famous clock collector, Chang Wei, a clock history researcher, and siwp, the founder of Swiss independent clock brand organization Mr.pilo Lin Yonghua and Ma Xushu, Chinese members of AHCI Swiss independent clockmaker Association, will tell a wonderful time story for the general public in Zhangzhou Rongxin Crowne Plaza Hotel Among them, "inspiration and innovation of independent watch making", "appreciation of antique clocks" and other lectures will refresh people's traditional concept of clocks and watches. At the same time, nearly 30 masterpieces of the world's top clocks and watches, as well as Swiss independent watchmakers, will also show the first show of Zhangzhou Rongxin Crown Holiday Hotel, showing the craftsmanship for the general public, and providing good reference experience for the domestic clock industry.


All theme activities of the festival are free to the public. It not only creates a good platform for the public to understand Zhangzhou and even the world's clock culture, but also provides another golden landmark for weekend tourism, promotes the connotation of water town in Southern Fujian, unlocks the new tourism mode of "culture + entertainment" for the public, and provides clock settings for Zhangzhou clock enterprises and R & D designers The international exchange platform of planning and manufacturing provides an interactive platform for the transformation and upgrading of Zhangzhou clock industry, realizes the integration of Zhangzhou clock industry with the international market, and further enriches the thickness of the city name card of "China's famous clock city".


Main activities:

1. Time and Art: clocks and watches are extravagant works of art with the deep integration of precision manufacturing and cultural connotation. Around this theme, the most representative clocks and watches in the industry will be introduced, and a special art exhibition will be set up in Zhangzhou for citizens to appreciate.

(1) "Inheritance of ingenuity" time art exhibition

* time: 12.12-12.15 (Thursday Sunday)

* location: Zhangzhou Rongxin Crowne Plaza

* exhibition content: display the masterpieces of AHCI and siwp, as well as the winning works of the 4th blue light cup China watch design competition. During the exhibition, display, auction and other links will be interspersed to bring a time audio-visual feast to the public.

(2) "Rare moon" antique clock Exhibition

* time: 12.12-2.15

* location: Shuixiang, South Fujian, Longwen District

* exhibition content: across the time and space of hundreds of years of pure watchmaking history, display rare and classic antique clocks and watches handed down from ancient to modern at home and abroad. Each watch shows the eternal beauty of the classic, as well as its historical culture and inheritance, providing people with a great opportunity to get close contact with the clock culture.

2. Time and culture: clocks and watches have a broad cultural connotation, which is related to many aspects of human social life, such as politics, economy, religion, science and technology. Around the cultural theme, the culture of watch industry, brand culture, watch money culture and time culture will be spread by holding time class, watch appreciation exchange salon and other activities, so as to improve the public awareness.

(1) Talk to time maker

* time: 12.12 (Thursday)

* location: Shuixiang, South Fujian

* activity content: invite Mr. Vincent, founder of AHCI, the International Association of independent tabulators, to attend the site, hold the signing activity of the new book "when you are alive", and share his experience in tabulation

(2) Time book

* time: 12.12-12.15

* activity content: during the Cultural Festival, a time book bar exhibition area was set up in Rongxin hotel to display the excellent works of clock and watch. Meanwhile, a Book Sharing meeting was organized to invite relevant scholars from the industry to participate in cultural exchanges.

3. "Perfect craftsmanship" watch auction

(1) Time: 12.14 PM

(2) Location: Zhangzhou Rongxin Crowne Plaza

(3) Auction content: select about 10 famous clocks and watches

5-6 works of independent Watchmaker

3-4 winning works of the blue light cup design competition

National table 1-2

Antique table 1-2

Reporter Lin Xiaoqi editor Hong Tingting