Apostle clock
Apostle watch
The clock from 1928 has numerous complications. In addition to the procession of the apostles, there is a the ringing of the Angelus, a music box, the display of day, month, weekday and the moon phase and over all death swings its scythe about people "Momento Mori".
The watchmaker Nikolaus Feis used a high -quality clockwork from Gustav Becker (Freiburg, Silesia) and, in months of work, made works that the figures from the Oberammergau wood workshops set in motion and trigger the fishing ring (6 a.m. and 6 p.m.).
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The death
The Sensenmann (also goddess death or Grim reaper) is an anthropomorphic allegory of death from the Middle Ages. Death is portrayed as a ripped figure (skeleton) that mowed people with a scythe.
The forerunner was the oldest of the three goddesses of fate in Greco-Roman mythology among the Parzen Atropos (or Morta), who brings people to death by average the thread of life with scissors. The sickle, on the other hand, was an attribute of the originally agricultural god of Kronos-Saturn. After his mixture with Chronos, he also became the god of time and thus transience. However, the explicit connection between death and the Grim reaper was established in the Bible.
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Nikolaus Feis
Nikolaus Feis was born on May 9, 1878 in Wadern in the Saarland. On June 6, 1904, he married Maria Jahanne née Pauly in Duisburg. He died on December 23, 1943 in Asbach in the Westerwald.
In 1902 he started working as a watchmaker in Asbach, cycling to the surrounding towns to pick up or deliver watches, some of which he carried on his back. In 1912 he built the business building that still exists today in Bahnhofstrasse, where, in addition to his work as a watchmaker, he also sold jewelry and worked as a photographer, including developing and enlarging. He was also a radio technician from the very beginning.
Order of the Apostles
1 Peter with key
2. Andrew, brother of Peter with a sloping cross
3. James the Elder
4. John, brother of James with cup
5. Simon Zelotes with saw
6. Matthew the Evangelist
7. Bartholomew
8. Thomas with a square measure
9. James the Younger with a fuller's pole (a cloth maker's tool)
10. Philip
11. Judas Squidward with club
12. Judas Iscarioth with money bag
