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Mauthe Clock Company (c1870 - 1976) Jakob Schlenker Grusen, Schwenningen (JSGUS/ISGUS) (1888–present) Johannes Schlenker, Schwenningen (1822-1883) then Schlenker and Kienzle (1883-1897) then Kienzle; Sigmund Riefler of the firm Clemens Riefler, Nesselwang and Munich (1890–1965) Carl Werner Uhrenfabrik, Villingen (1870-1912) taken over by ...
In the 1960s, Kienzle produced dashboard clocks for Mercedes-Benz, Rolls-Royce and Bentley: both Series 1 Silver Shadow, and Bentley T models were fitted with Kienzle clocks. [5] In the 1960s and 1970s, Kienzle became a market leader in Germany. In 1972, the first solar watch, "Heliomat", was produced as well as the first quartz movements. [6]
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (4 October 1808 – 10 January 1894) [1] was a German watercolor painter. Biography. Born in Weimar, Werner studied painting under ...
Jean Paul Garnier (1801–1869), French clockmaker, Paris, electric clocks. Carl August von Steinheil (1801–1870), German physician and astronomer, Munich, first electric clock. Jules Sueur (1801–1867), Swiss watchmaker, astronomer and inventor, Geneva, astronimichal time theory implementation.
Clocks from Winterhalder & Hofmeier are mechanical precision clocks with the quality standards of Black Forest craftsmanship. [4] [5] The numbers of the dial face are in Roman numerals. The dial face is embraced by wood. [6] The clocks can be identified by the engraved W & H SCH initial letters. Most of the clocks were made from 1850 to 1933.
Telechron alarm clocks are particularly popular with collectors. Until about 1940, the overwhelming majority of Telechron alarm clocks had bell alarms. The entire mechanism was enclosed in a bell housing of steel. Atop the clock's coil was a metal strip that vibrated at 60 cycles per second when the alarm was tripped.
For much of the 19th century (and early 20th century), Schwenningen was one of southern Germany's most important centres of industrial scale clock manufacturing. The museum is at Bürkstraße 39, a building that was built to house the manufacturing plant for clocks by Wũrttenbergische Uhrenfabrik Bũrk Söhne. That company was considered to be ...
The first clock known to strike regularly on the hour, a clock with a verge and foliot mechanism, is recorded in Milan in 1336. [96] By 1341, clocks driven by weights were familiar enough to be able to be adapted for grain mills, [97] and by 1344 the clock in London's Old St Paul's Cathedral had been replaced by one with an escapement. [98]