Three Clocks for Gara de Nord Timisoara

Three Clocks for Gara de Nord Timișoara

Three clocks are keeping time at Gara de Nord Timișoara. We were commissioned to build them as part of the station's renovation; they were delivered, installed, and formally accepted on 30 June 2026.

The commission mattered to us for a reason beyond the station: the movement inside them is the first we have designed from scratch.

Two dials, one mechanism

Each clock is double-faced: two opposed dials driven by one common mechanism. The drive is stepper-driven, with a worm-gear reduction to the minute axis, then geared to the hour axis. A planetary gear reverses the drive to the second dial, so both faces advance together from the one movement. Because both dials take their drive from the same train, they cannot disagree, and they never stop. Operation is continuous.

An electromechanical movement

Our watches run on Sellita calibers. The station clocks do not. The movement is our own, and we classify it as electromechanical: suited to a train station, where a clock is not admired so much as relied upon.

How they keep time

Timekeeping is held by a real-time clock module inside each movement. GPS synchronization keeps that clock disciplined, so any drift is corrected before it can show on the dial. If the signal is unavailable, nothing changes: the RTC simply carries on, and the correction resumes once the signal returns. The changeover between winter and summer time is automatic. Each clock carries a temperature display in e-ink, and integrated dial text illumination activates itself at dusk.

MNS-1, MNS-2, MNS-3

The three clocks carry the serial numbers MNS-1, MNS-2, and MNS-3. MNS stands for Mimora North Station. They are the first Mimora movements to run in public, and they keep the hours of the city where the brand began.