Marisa Addomine

Marisa Addomine holds an MSc in Electronics with Honours from the Politecnico di Milano and has worked for 25 years as a project manager for large software systems for international companies (Olivetti, Philips, AT&T Bell Labs, etc.), in Italy and abroad. She is a Chartered Appraiser of Antiques, Watches and Clocks, and attended the School of Latin Palaeography at the University of Florence. She recently graduated (MPhil) in the History of Science at the Warburg Institute in London.

An accredited expert for the Italian courts and loves to write, she divides her activity between divulgative interventions and academic contributions. She has published more than 200 works, between books and articles. Among her best contributions she likes to mention two chapters in the General History of Horology, published by Oxford University Press, and her role as editor of the unpublished posthumous writings on the History of Mechanical Horology by the three great late experts, Professors Brusa, Allix and Leopold.

She constantly cooperates with important Auctions as Clock and Watch expert. She collaborates with Italian and foreign universities, museums, institutions and private collections. She is curator of the turret clock section of the Museo Arte Tempo in Clusone (Italy).

Intensely involved in the protection of the Italian heritage, she was the leader of the research group that in 2004 discovered in Chioggia, near Venice, the oldest completely documented turret clock in existence, dating back to 1386. She is a member of the Antiquarian Horological Society (UK) and the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.