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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.
By 1755 Mudge invented the detached lever escapement, which he first applied to a clock, but which, was later applied to pocket watches, and remains a feature in almost every mechanical pocket watch and wristwatch made since. [2] In 1765 he published the book, Thoughts on the Means of Improving Watches, Particularly those for Use at Sea.
Edward Howard (1813–1904), American watchmaker and manufacturer, Waltham Watch Company, pocket watch. Friedrich Emil Roetig (1814–1863), German watchmaker, Hachenburg , Taleruhr . Romuald Božek (1814–1899), Czech inventor and watchmaker, Prague .
A pocket watch is a watch that is made to be ... Movement of a 1914 Hamilton 992 Railroad grade pocket watch. Invented by Adrien Philippe in 1842 and commercialized ...
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.
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]
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.
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.