Pesariis

Pesariis, a hamlet of the municipality of Prato Carnico, in the province of Udine, is a small village in the Val Pesarina (also known as the valley of time) of about 200 inhabitants. The village has preserved the typology and structural set up of its original urban centre in this mountainous region. Pesariis is known as the land of the watches: there are documents that testify the watchmaking production of this village from the beginning of the seventeenth century. In 1725, the Solari family founded under their family name a factory for the production of watches. This factory is still operating today.

A walk through the streets of the town, among the ancient Carnic (From Carnia, meaning from the Eastern Alps) houses, allows you to discover a variety of imposing clocks, each one different from the other in size, colour, characteristics, mechanisms and operating modes that form the Monumental Watchmaking Route: great for those who love walking at a slow pace, marked quite literally by the tolls of time, it’s an evocative route that blends art, craftsmanship and technology and that harmoniously interacts with the most picturesque corners of the village. In Pesariis, you will also find the Watchmaking Museum which documents the centuries-old watchmaking tradition of the valley. A collection that traces the technological evolution of Pesariss’ watchmaking from the oldest to the most recent watch models: watches in forged iron, watchtowers, paddle clocks, timepieces, right up to the Cifra 3 model which is part of the collection of objects of design by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.