This logo contains much meaning for me and discoveries I’ve made over the years.

For years many people thought that the first flip clocks were the Plato Clocks – myself included. Yet, I caught on to mentions of an early digital display of time, one that no one seemed to be talking about. Then the name Joseph Pallweber came up.

After digging through German patents, I learned that this Pallweber fellow designed the first rolling wheel clock and the first digital pocket watch (known now as jump hour watch).

Low and Behold, he also developed the first flip clock!

The first flip clock was conceived by Austrian inventor and engineer Josef Pallweber in 1890 and produced in Lenzkirch, Germany by the world-renowned Lenzkirch Clock Factory between 1893-1894. Josef Pallweber was issued German patent No. 54093 on October 27, 1890 for his "Uhr mit Zahlenwechsel durch Herabfallen doppelseitig bezifferter Täfelchen" (Clock with numbers changing by falling double-sided numbered tablets)

You can read much more detail In the Forum Article about Pallweber

This has stuck with me for some time. We think we know history and then we learn that what was, had been forgotten. Maybe "Time heals all wounds" but it also erases a load of memories.

Tempus Fugit? That goes along with this. This is latin for "Time Flies." You'll often see this written on clocks, especially grandfather clocks, and people often think it is a brand name. No, it's just a philosophical outlook.

The full saying that I like is "Tempus Fugit memento mori." Time flies, Remember death. Oh sure, maybe it's morbid, but one day we won't be here and likely people will forget us. Even if we do make the first flip clock.

So seize the day, baby, while you still have time. But be kind to eachother.

~ Mackey 2/12/2025