1717– Henry Sully – Règle artificielle du tem(p)s [Artificial regulation of time] 1741 – Antoine Thiout (L’ainé) – Traité de l’horlogerie mécanique et pratique [Treatise on mechanical and practical horology]…
Category: <span>Research-Recherche</span>
For fun I ordered a copy of this book, available quite cheaply on the used market. I read somewhere that the author used a pseudonym, and that he worked (as…
In England, France, and other countries with monarchs, many clock makers labeled their clock dials or movements with the phrase “clock maker to the king” or queen, or prince… Some…
A document I’d like to read some day is a manuscript written by William Oughtred (1574-1660) entitled (in modern English) “Some directions towards the making of a small watch of…
I acquired this clock from a local seller a few days ago. It has a long family history, mostly in Montreal. Maker is Robert Scholfield of Rochdale, England, engraved on…
In 2018 I acquired a poorly described watch movement from France for a modest sum. It turned out to be from the workshop of Edward East (1602-1697), whom Baillie described…
I recently acquired a copy of Tardy’s “Dictionnaire des horlogers Français”, an essential reference book for anyone doing research in French horology. I was pleasantly surprised to find, on page…
(Le français suit…) Another mid-18th century Parisian horloger I will write about some day is Anne Clément (~1712-1747), whose name is inscribed on the plate and painted on the dial…
In the marvellous book “It’s About Time” (published shortly after his death by his widow Margaret), Major Paul Chamberlain wrote a short biography of our subject which starts with the…
(Le français suit…) I wrote a new article on Parisian “horloger” Pierre-François Le Roy (brother of famous Julien Le Roy, and uncle to Julien’s notable son Pierre). My draft was…