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Invented by Adrien Philippe in 1842 and commercialized by Patek Philippe & Co. in the 1850s, the stem-wind, stem-set movement did away with the watch key which was a necessity for the operation of any pocket watch up to that point.
Peter Henlein (also spelled Henle or Hele) [1] (1485 - August 1542), a locksmith, clockmaker, and watchmaker of Nuremberg, Germany.Due to the Fire-gilded pomander-shaped watch from 1505, he is often considered the inventor of the pocket watch.
Thomas Frederick Cooper(1789-1863) English watchmaker London, pocket watch; Edward John Dent (1790–1853), English watchmaker, London, pocket watch, marine chronometer. Jean Jacob (1793–1871), French clockmaker, Paris, chronometer, longcase clock. Chauncey Jerome (1793–1868), American clockmaker, Connecticut, New Haven Clock Co.
Pitkin was the inventor of the American lever watch movement for pocket watches. [3] Mass production of Pitkin watches began in 1836. Pitkin with his brother designed the first American pocket watches containing the first American machine-made parts. [2] [4] The Pitkin Watch Company was the first to mass-produce pocket watches in America. [5 ...
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.
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 broke with a 300-year tradition and ushered in the age of precision timekeeping, the modern pocket watch was born. [4]
George Daniels, CBE, FBHI, FSA, AHCI (19 August 1926 – 21 October 2011) was an English horologist, inventor of the coaxial escapement, author and a classic car collector. [1] He hand built 23 pocket watches and two wrist watches, as well as clocks.
1795 Invented the Breguet spiral (flat spiral balance spring with overcoil). 1795 Invented the "Sympathique" ('sympathetic') clock, a master carriage clock which rewinds and sets to time a detachable pocket watch. 1799 Invented the montre a tact ("tactile") watch that could be read by feel in the pocket or the dark.
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