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Jean-Antoine Lépine (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan lepin]; alternatively spelled L’Pine, LePine, Lepine, L’Epine, born Jean-Antoine Depigny; 18 November 1720 – 31 May 1814) was a French watchmaker. He contributed inventions which are still used in watchmaking today and was amongst the finest French watchmakers, who were ...
It is then an important producer of timepieces and the famous Jean-Antoine Lépine, clockmaker to the king, is one of its watchmakers. [3] [4] Manufacture Royale also made objets d'art such as table watches. The Manufacture gently disappeared in the vicissitude of time but was revived in 2010.
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The example in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom was made by Jean-Antoine Lépine in 1790 and is displayed in the music room at Windsor Castle. [8] The clock is believed to have been bought directly from Lépine by George, Prince of Wales , in 1790; George had spent £3,250 with Lépine that year (equivalent to £490,529 in 2023).
Jean André Lepaute (1720–1789), French royal watchmaker, Paris. Jean Antoine Lépine (1720–1814), French watchmaker, Paris, Lépine caliber, pocket watch. Friedrich Möllinger (1720 or 1726–1767), German watchmaker, Mannheim, clockmaker of the court. Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721–1790), Swiss clockmaker, La Chaux-de-Fonds.
The form used in modern watches, is wound by turning the arbor and drives the watch movement by a ring of teeth around the barrel. This enables the mainspring to continue running the watch while it is being wound. Invented by Jean-Antoine Lépine. Hanging barrel
PARIS(Reuters) -Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front party who tapped into blue-collar anger over immigration and globalisation and revelled in minimising the ...
Alfred Lépine (1901–1955), Canadian ice hockey player; Ambroise-Dydime Lépine (1840–1923), Canadian aboriginal leader; Hector Lepine (born 1897), Canadian ice hockey player; Jean-Antoine Lépine (1720–1814), French clock- and watch-maker; Louis Lépine (1846–1933), French lawyer, politician, and inventor who created the Concours Lépine.