ADVISORY/One of the World's Most Complex Clocks Returns to Restored Drexel University Picture Gallery.

Assignment/News Editors

ADVISORY...for Monday (Oct. 21)

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Drexel University 

What:          Appraised in the millions, a rare 18th century
               tall-case Clock created by Philadelphian David
               Rittenhouse, will be returned to Drexel University from
               the Philadelphia Museum of Art where it has been on
               loan since 1995. Considered to be one of the world's
               most complex clocks ever made, it will be reassembled
               in the newly restored Picture Gallery.

               "The Rittenhouse Clock is truly a world-class treasure
               and a source of pride for Philadelphia," said Drexel
               President Constantine Papadakis. "Its unique mechanism
               and stunning case make it one of Philadelphia's most
               admirable works of art."

               The nine-feet high Clock is a product of Philadelphian
               David Rittenhouse (1732-1796). It features a mechanism
               with a musical attachment of 16 sets of chimes and an
               accurate planetarium placed upon the face above the
               dial plate. The Clock records time in seconds, minutes,
               hours and days, and indicates the position of the moon
               and the stars.

Who:           Behrooz Salimnejad, associate conservator of furniture
               and woodwork at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will be
               reassembling the Clock at the restored gallery.
               Jacqueline De Groff, curator of The Drexel Collection,
               will position the Clock in the gallery.

Where:         The Drexel University Picture Gallery on the third
               floor of the Main Building (32nd and Chestnut Streets).

When:          Monday, Oct. 21 at 10:30 a.m. (reassembling of the
               Clock will begin at 11 a.m.)

Background:    Born outside Germantown, David Rittenhouse was an
               astronomer and mathematician as well as a clockmaker...
               The Clock was donated to Drexel in 1898...

Visuals:       The Rittenhouse Clock arriving at Drexel...Salimnejad
               reassembling the nine-feet high Clock...De Groff
               positioning the Clock in its newly restored home...

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