RIJOMAX - The World's Most Complete Watch

"RIJOMAX" is the name given by its builder to the most complete, complex, exotic and unusual piece of watchmaking known to man, which has led to pilgrimages to Tabuaço's Interactive Tourism Shop, where it is currently located. It took its builder more than twenty-eight years to complete his extraordinary invention, which has baffled foreign technicians who come to Tabuaço to observe such a mysterious machine, the envy of the most accredited Swiss specialists. The famous "RIJOMAX" clock indicated the apparent movements of the Sun and Moon, seconds, minutes, 24 hours, universal time, lunar time, marked leap years, automatically suppressing 24 years every 128. It indicated sunrise and sunset, when the days grew and shrank, marked the day and night with a daily scale of how many hours and minutes the day and night had. It marked the equinoxes, solstices and phases of the moon with the light it received from the sun. It indicated the weeks and the days of the week; the months, the days of the months and how many days were left until the end of the month; the years, the days of the years and how many were left until the end of the year; the seasons and the days of the seasons; the signs and the days of the signs; the semesters, the quarters and an indication of which day of the week each month began, and another if the year was a leap year; the dates of the phases of the Moon and the change of time. It also indicated the numbers of the Solar Cycle, the Golden Number, the Epacta, the Sunday letter, the chronological eras, the days of the era of Christ, and the centuries. It marked holidays, saints' days and movable feasts, and had a barometer, thermometer and cardinal points dial. It could be woken up by music of your choice or by a bell, and it could turn on the light at any time you wished. It spoke, saying what time it was and gave a greeting in religious vocabulary; it also had a device that called the master of the house. RIJOMAX CURIOSITIES - The name "RIJOMAX" is an acronym for Amândio José Ribeiro. - Amândio José Ribeiro put more than 16,000 hours of work into building the clock, which took 28 years to build, between 1945 and 1973; - It has more than 16,000 numbers and letters; - It weighs more than 150 kg and is more than 2 meters tall; - It has already been included in the GUINESS BOOK and is world famous; - It could run for thousands of years with a minimum margin of error and had the capacity to perform 34 functions simultaneously; - It has 45 dials; - It is programmed to run for 10,000 centuries, in cycles of 6272 years and tries to correct this discrepancy by introducing a leap year of 366 days every four years. - This watch has patent number 12931.