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Lepine Caliber IIA with Quarter Repeater Complication shared with Abraham Breguet Lepine Cuvette Lepine Caliber IIA with Quarter Repeater. Also made by Lepine for Breguet watches. Around 1764/65, he devised a means of manufacturing a pocket watch that could be thinner, favouring the onward quest for further miniaturization. His radical design ...
Manufacture Royale is a Swiss luxury watch brand. Founded in the eighteenth century, the brand was revived in 2010. Founded in the eighteenth century, the brand was revived in 2010. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Georges Louis Ruedin (1870–1935), Swiss watch producer, Berner Jura, director of the Société Horlogère Reconvilier. Jens Olsen (1872–1945), Danish clockmaker, Ribe, astronomical world clock in Copenhagen. Jämes Pellaton (1873–1954), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, tourbillon. Louis Cartier (1875–1942), French watchmaker, Paris, Cartier ...
Roadshow expert Richard Price stated that the timepiece was an early Breguet montre à tact ("tactile watch"), dating from 1801. The watch was enclosed on both sides by discs covered with a blue translucent enamel over a Guilloché base machined in a chevron pattern. The front face was fitted with a single arrow-shaped hand in silver, encrusted ...
Thomas Mudge, inventor of the lever escapement. The lever escapement, invented by Thomas Mudge in 1754 [18] and improved by Josiah Emery in 1785, gradually came into use from about 1800 onwards, chiefly in Britain; it was also adopted by Abraham-Louis Breguet, but Swiss watchmakers (who by now were the chief suppliers of watches to most of Europe) mostly adhered to the cylinder until the 1860s.
Watch from 1500s with a stackfreed, an earlier solution to diminishing mainspring tension than the fusee (near top). Springs were first employed to power clocks in the 15th century, to make them smaller and portable. [1] [5] These early spring-driven clocks were much less accurate than weight-driven clocks. Unlike a weight on a cord, which ...
Breguet (French pronunciation:) is a Swiss luxury watch, clock and jewelry manufacturer founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775. [1] Headquartered in L'Abbaye, Switzerland, Breguet is one of the oldest surviving watchmaking brands and a pioneer of numerous watchmaking technologies such as the tourbillon, which was developed into a practical solution by Abraham Breguet in 1801. [2]
The 'Negress head clock' in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Negress head clock is a type of French Empire mantel clock depicting the head of a black woman flanked by sculptured putti.