| Since the advent of the modern calendar it has been difficult for people to remember how many days a particular month has. The vast majority of calendar watches and clocks require the owner to make an adjustment at the end of each month, something I think we have all forgotten to do on more than one occasion. So we’re stuck with a calendar that has more to do with a few ancient egos than ease of use. It’s the perpetual calendar that tries to keep us straight in our daily life.
The mechanical perpetual calendar has been around for about 200 years appearing first in clocks and later in watches. You might think after more than 200 years of evolution the perpetual calendar would be an everyday commodity, but yet it is still one of the haute complications, rare and valued.
It’s the complexity of the mechanics involved that has kept this idea from becoming a common sight. Hey, if was easy everyone would have a perpetual calendar on their wrist, right?
