Guerrilla restorers fix Pantheon's clock

by ianivs | November 26, 2007 at 11:32 am
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This story is worthy of a movie. A group known as the Untergunther regularly broke into the Paris Pantheon for a period of one year in order to restore the broken clock on the building. They went as far as building a lounge/workshop with electricity and internet access.

When they were done, they let officials know, who promptly pressed charges.

For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon's unsuspecting security officials, a group of intrepid "illegal restorers" set up a secret workshop and lounge in a cavity under the building's famous dome. Under the supervision of group member Jean-Baptiste Viot, a professional clockmaker, they pieced apart and repaired the antique clock that had been left to rust in the building since the 1960s. Only when their clandestine revamp of the elaborate timepiece had been completed did they reveal themselves.
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Rob Walker
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at 12:45 on November 26th, 2007

What hooligans! How dare they restore a valuable antique...oh wait.

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René

Too Cool! It is worthy of a movie. Anyone in Paris? Can you get us a picture of the Pantheon clock? It doesn't show on the Pantheon picture on the original story.

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at 14:20 on November 26th, 2007

ianivs, great stuff! Thanks.

 Here's an absolutely scrumptious blog featuring them, with photos.  Perhaps you could negotiate usage, with credit, of some photos. Enjoy! (Sorry 'bout the scrumptious, I just opened up some new holiday baking ware and am fixated on goodies now.)  :) 

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