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The following is a list of notable companies that produced, or currently produce clocks. Where known, the location of the company and the dates of clock manufacture follow the name. In some instances the "company" consisted of a single person.
The speed of the clock used in the Dutch auction has a significant effect on final prices and the auctioneer's revenue. [14] A fast Dutch clock has been found to yield significantly lower bids and seller revenue when benchmarked against a first-price sealed-bid auction. On the contrary, a sufficiently slow Dutch clock is found to be more ...
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Bonaventura Eijsbouts (1827–1920), Dutch clockmaker, Asten, clock tower maker Royal Eijsbouts. Julius Grossmann (1829–1907), German watchmaker, director of the watchmaking school in Le Locle. Charles-Émile Tissot (1830–1910), Swiss Watchmaker and politician, Le Locle, co-founder of Tissot.
As the latter became profitable, Benjamin set up a workshop in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1767. Simon Willard managed his own business in Grafton; some clocks survive bearing the maker's mark "Simon Willard, Grafton." At his workshop in Grafton, Willard studied the clocks by other makers which were brought to him to be repaired.
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Thomas Tompion, FRS (1639–1713) was an English clockmaker, watchmaker and mechanician who is still regarded to this day as the "Father of English Clockmaking". Tompion's work includes some of the most historic and important clocks and watches in the world, and can command very high prices whenever outstanding examples appear at auction.
Original pendulum clock by S. Coster, after Huygens' design (1657). Salomon Coster (c. 1620–1659) was a Dutch clockmaker of the Hague, who in 1657 was the first to make a pendulum clock, which had been invented by Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695). [1] [2] Coster died a sudden death in 1659.