Paris Notre Dame Cathedral Restoration Update 2024 

Serendipitously, while compiling an inventory at Sainte-Trinité church in northern Paris, just four kilometers away from Notre-Dame, French watchmaker and restoration specialist Jean-Baptiste Viot found a nearly identical (though 40 cm larger) version of the Notre-Dame clock movement hidden away in a disused room, covered by boards and old furniture. The mechanical Sainte-Trinité clock had been forgotten since being replaced by an electric model more than 50 years ago. Jean-Baptiste Viot; author Bruno Cabanis (who wrote a book on the Notre-Dame clock); Olivier Chandez (watchmaker in charge of maintaining the Notre-Dame clock); and clock restorer Christine Chaligné created the Notre-Dame Clock Association (l’Association Horloge Notre-Dame) at the end of 2019. They have been working with a team of watchmaking students from the Diderot watchmaking school in Paris guided by watchmaking teacher Michel Boulanger. The group since begun meticulously measuring, documenting, and digitizing all of the components and mechanisms of the newly discovered Sainte-Trinité clock with the aim of creating a detailed computer model to help create the new replica clock for Notre-Dame. Engineers of the St. Petersburg-based Raketa watch factory helped the Horloge Notre-Dame association rebuild the clock.

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Yes! Notre-Dame will notably be equipped with a vaporization system, installed below the roof and in the spire, that would immediately stop any outbreaking fire from spreading.

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Here at Megalith we’re ecstatic the spire is finally renovated!

We appreciate your opinion! We believe it isn't too bad given the design is 860 years old!