To your watches, clocks, microwaves, alarm clocks and other cuckoo clocks: the return to Eastern Standard Time takes place this weekend. At 2 a.m. Sunday morning, we go back an hour. For the occasion, Francis Vachon turned his lens on André Viger, watchmaker to the National Assembly for more than 40 years.
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André Viger inspects the dial of the Salon Bleu clock. Francis Vachon Le Devoir
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Watchmaker André Viger has been in charge of maintaining the clocks of the National Assembly since 1981. Francis Vachon Le Devoir
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André Viger winds the mechanism of a wall clock from the Eco Magneto Clock Company of Boston. Its mahogany case contains two movements made by Seth Thomas in 1910. The first gives the time and the second, now inactive, was used to sound the roll call of deputies. Francis Vachon Le Devoir
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Every Tuesday, André Viger winds the clock mechanism of the Quebec Parliament tower. Francis Vachon Le Devoir
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André Viger likes to recall that the clock in the Parliament tower was installed in 1881, just 100 years before his arrival as clockmaker to the National Assembly. Francis Vachon Le Devoir
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On this Seth Thomas brand clock, whose movement dates from 1876, a dial gives the hour, minutes and seconds, while a second dial indicates the day and the month. Its autonomy is eight days. Francis Vachon Le Devoir
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A King Edward model clock built circa 1910 by Arthur Pequegnat. Francis Vachon Le Devoir
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Stepladder in hand, André Viger walks through the corridors of the National Assembly. Francis Vachon Le Devoir
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