Pocket watch

An independent pocket watch

the Gousset watch independent seconds, signed by Menendez and Cernuda de Havana, was certainly an order with their signature made to Switzerland, because They lacked workshops and technology t...

Gousset and Châtelaine watches

The Châtelaine is a belt pendant, used since the Middle Ages, when the security agent hung the keys to the castle doors to its size. It thus became an almost feminine object, until the end of t...

Daniel Vaucher gusset watches in Paris

Daniel Vaucher (Vauchez), a Parisian watchmaker, installed on rue du Preaux-Boeufs, was one of the favorite clocks of the aristocracy and the Queen of France, also involved in the case of the famo...

Gothic letters replace Roman numerals

In the 18th century, the first gusset watches appeared which replaced the figures marking the hours with letters gothic , in some cases on order of 'Enameller of the name of the owner and in o...

The American Watch cº watches

In 1851, the company American Watch Cº was created, which the following year became the Walthan Impotement Cº, before passing in 1885 to the powerful Walthan Watch Company. The watch he wore the...

Perret & Berthoud or the universal pocket watch

In 1897, George Perret and Louis Berthoud created the company perret & amp; Berthoud in the Swiss city of Le Locle, which specializes in sound watches and chronographs. A year later, on Se...

The persistence of memory: dalí and the pocket watch

Introduction The emblematic painting of Salvador Dali, the persistence of memory, is most likely one of the most famous works of art around the world, with La Joconde de Da Vinci, the Guernica ...

The first watches in Carillon

We know for certainty that the first gusset watches appeared in England in the year 1685. What is less obvious, is to know who was the first watchmaker to build it. Two renowned London mast...

The Turkish pocket watch by Pierre Le Roy

Pierre Le Roy , the eldest son of Julien Le Roy, as important or more important as his father, was the professor of Ferdinand Berthou, who will later become his fiercest competitor. He created th...

Lépine: the watchmaker who refined the pocket watch

Jean Antoine Lépine entered the age of 18 to work (in the year 1744), in watch of the court Charles Caron . In 1756, he became master watchmaker and married his daughter, creating the compa...