Max Her; Clockmaker of the Popes
Max Her, 83, who maintained the scores of clocks in the Vatican for 52 years. A native of Furtwangen in West Germany, which is famous for its museum of cuckoo clocks, Her worked for Rome’s Haussman clock company, which the Vatican kept under contract. In Vatican City on Sunday.
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