03:25Time on his hands: Chinese collector unveils 'Clock Museum' featuring thousands of antiques
Tan Xingqian, an antiques collector from Yunfu city, has built a museum full of clocks from around the world, as seen in footage on Monday.
"The hobby of collecting clocks was started by my father, and in my generation, I wanted to pass it on as much as possible," he explained.
Footage shows the vast number of table clocks, wall clocks and others, with everything from huge timepieces to smaller, intricate creations. Tan is seen winding some of them, and revealing their inner workings.
"I haven’t counted exactly how many clocks there are, but at least there are more than 10,000", the collector continued.
The house is specially designed to display all the different clocks, with many from the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. There are also some from France, Great Britain and Germany, among other countries.
03:25Tan Xingqian, an antiques collector from Yunfu city, has built a museum full of clocks from around the world, as seen in footage on Monday.
"The hobby of collecting clocks was started by my father, and in my generation, I wanted to pass it on as much as possible," he explained.
Footage shows the vast number of table clocks, wall clocks and others, with everything from huge timepieces to smaller, intricate creations. Tan is seen winding some of them, and revealing their inner workings.
"I haven’t counted exactly how many clocks there are, but at least there are more than 10,000", the collector continued.
The house is specially designed to display all the different clocks, with many from the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. There are also some from France, Great Britain and Germany, among other countries.