THE HIPP CHRONOSCOPE

Figure 23: FAVAG, Chronoscope, “model 207”
In this period, clocks and Instruments were signed “FAVAG, S.A.” In other words, the
system of serial numbers which was in use from 1860 to 1928 changed.
The quantity of existing instruments is very small. I was able to find only two FAVAG
chronoscopes. One chronoscope of type “202” is located at the University of Oxford [123]
with a photo on the Internet. The other one, a Münsterberg chronoscope, is part of the
psychological instrument collection at the University of Sydney.
Figure 24: Münsterberg chronoscope with reset to 0, bearing no signature or serial number
University of Sydney
A few words about the time after 1945. The first reference to the next type of chronoscope I
have found is a paper published by FAVAG in 1946 [57]. Mentioned is a chronoscope “type
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