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History of the pocket watch through privately curated collections

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  • 16th Century
    • Caspar Werner, Nürnberg, 1548
    • ‘Tambour’ watch case, Germany, 1550
    • ‘Beignet’ watch case, Germany, 1580
    • Partial ‘Beignet’ watch case, Germany, 1580
  • 17th Century
    • 17th Century – England
      • Samuel Betts, London, 1650
      • Torin, London, 1675
      • William Bartrem, London, 1680
      • John Purdew, London, 1680
      • Daniel Quare
        • Daniel Quare, London, 1685
        • Daniel Quare, London, 1690
      • Jonathon Purchis, No. 31, Margate, 1690 / 1780
    • 17th Century – Kingdom of France
      • Pierre Le Seyne, Paris, 1615
      • Thomas Ribart, Paris, 1625
      • ‘Tulip’ watch case, France, (1635)
      • ‘Memento Mori’ watch case, France, (1650)
      • Balthazar (l’Ainé) & Gilles Martinot, Paris, 1675
      • Abraham Yver, Angoulême, 1680
      • French onion dials, 1685 – 1700
      • Thomas Mousset, Paris, 1690
    • 17th Century – Geneva
      • Pierre II Huaud, Geneva, 1675
      • Jean Rousseau
        • Jean – François Lachis, Geneva, 1685
        • Jacques (Jacob) Rousseau, No. 1738, London, 1690
      • Two footed cock, Geneva, 1690
    • 17th Century – Netherlands
      • Two footed cock, Netherlands, 1690
  • 18th Century
    • 18th Century – England
      • Andrew Dunlop, No. 505, London, 1705
      • Unification of Great Britain 1707
        • Robert Simkins, London, 1707 / 1714
      • Thomas Tompion
        • Thomas Tompion, No. 4230, London, 1708
      • Richard Street, No. 633, London, 1710
      • George Graham
        • George Graham, No. 4573, London, 1713
        • George Graham, No. 5249, London, 1727
        • Thomas Colley, No. 6648, London, 1755
        • John Priest, No. 222, London, 1760
      • Thomas Mudge 
        • Thomas Mudge, No. 494, London, 1765
        • Thomas Mudge & William Dutton, No. 1392, London, 1790
        • William Dutton, No. 1363, London, 1790
      • Vuillamy
        • Benjamin Gray & Justin Vulliamy, No. ois, London, 1745
        • Benjamin Gray & Justin Vulliamy, No. nco, London, 1750
        • Justin & Benjamin Vulliamy, No. sus, London, 1785
      • The Longitude Problem; the development of the Chronometer:
        • John Harrison 
        • John Jefferys 
          • John Jefferys, No. 48, London, 1735
          • John Jefferys, No. 201, London, 1745
        • Larcum Kendall 
          • Larcum Kendall, London, 1765
        • John Arnold
          • John Arnold, No. 290, London, 1775
          • John Arnold & John Roger Arnold, No. 249/550, London, 1793
        • Thomas Earnshaw 
          • Peter Torckler / Thomas Earnshaw, No. 406, London, 1775
      • Anonymous, No. 9001, London for Dutch market, 1787
    • 18th Century – Kingdom of France
      • Augustin Fortin, Paris, 1720
      • Bichon, Moulins, 1730
      • Dedication Watch to ‘Louïs Bille’, Paris, 1735
      • Jean Imbard, Lyon, 1735
      • Charles Le Roy, No. 1465, Paris, 1740
      • Julien Le Roy & Pierre Le Roy 
        • Julien Le Roy, No. 303, Paris, 1727
        • Julien Le Roy, No. 2102, Paris, 1744
        • Julien Le Roy, No. 2818, Paris, 1750
        • Pierre Le Roy (fils), No. 3788, Paris, 1760
        • Pierre Le Roy (fils), No. 3840, Paris, 1761
        • Pierre Le Roy (fils), No. 4389, Paris, 1765
      • Jean Arthur, Paris, ca. 1760
      • Jean Romilly, No. 2108, Paris, 1760
      • Ferdinand Berthoud & (Pierre) Louis Berthoud
        • Ferdinand Berthoud, No. 649, Paris, 1768
        • Ferdinand Berthoud, No. 2078, Paris, 1770
        • Louis Berthoud, No. 2520, Paris, 1793
      • André – Charles Caron, No. 408, Paris, 1765
      • Jean – Antoine Lépine
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine, Paris, 1764
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine (Horloger du Roy), Paris, 1766
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine (Repeater), No. 1103, Paris, 1766
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine (Horloger du Roy), Paris, 1767
      • The ‘Lépine caliber’ – the bridged watch movement, 1762 – 1792
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine (Type I) for Daniel Vaucher, Paris, 1762
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine (Type II), No. 1251, Paris, 1767
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine (Type IIIa) for Carl Erick Orbin, No. 371, Stockholm, 1770, 1785
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine, (Type IV), Paris, 1771
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine (early definitive version), Paris, 1774
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine, (late definitive version), Paris, 1780
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine (Experimental), No. 2076, Paris, 1775 
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine & Voltaire, No. 6, Ferney, 1770
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine, No. 237, Ferney, 1780
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine, Paris, 1780
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine, No. 5490, Paris, 1788
        • Jean – Antoine Lépine, (symmetrical dial), Paris, 1790
      • André Hessen
        • André Hessen, No. 334, Paris, 1775
        • André Hessen (Type I) for Daniel Vaucher, Paris, 1780
        • André Hessen (Type I) for J. Cardinaux, No. 743, Paris, 1780
        • André Hessen (Type II) for Alexandre Patry & Louis – François – Guillaume Chaudoir, Geneva, 1784
      • Antoine François, No. 852, Paris, 1775
      • Dieudonné Kinable, No. 626, Paris, 1792
    • 18th Century – Republican / Napoleonic France
      • Jean – François De Belle, Paris, 1793 
      • Jean – Pierre Gregson, No. 5003, London / Paris, 1793
      • Abraham – Louis Breguet
        • A. – L. Breguet, (Caliber Template), Paris, 1785
        • A. – L. Breguet, No. 165, Paris, 1790
        • A. – L. Breguet, No. 203, Paris, 1792
        • A. – L . Breguet, No. 234, Paris, 1793
        • The Souscription Watch
          • A. – L. Breguet (Experimental Type I), No. 178, Paris, 1792 – 1795
          • A. – L. Breguet (Type IV), No. 447, Paris, 1796
      • Tavernier
        • Louis Tavernier, Nr. 3294, Paris, 1790
    • 18th Century – Switzerland
      • Alexandre Deonna, No. 579, Geneva, 1720
      • Johann Conrad Pfenninger, No. 657, Zurich, 1740
      • Anonymous, Switzerland for Chinese market, 1770
      • Etienne Gille, Geneva, 1788
      • Jacques – Frédéric Houriet  
        • Jacques – Frédéric Houriet, No. 12, Le Locle, 1790
  • 19th Century
    • 19th Century – England
      • Friedrich Heinrich Gerhard Ahrens, No. 2, Hannover, 1800
      • Richard Jolly, No. 27, London, 1808
      • Robert Pennington Sr.
        • Robert Pennington Sr. and Jr., No. 810, London, 1818
        • Robert Pennington Jr., No. 981, London, 1830
      • Dutton
        • Thomas Dutton (Junior), No. 2332, London, 1800/1850
        • Matthew Dutton (Sr.), No. 1617, London, 1810
        • Matthew Dutton (Jr.), No. 1013, London, 1823
      • John Roger Arnold
        • John Roger Arnold, No. 24, London, 1820
        • John Roger Arnold, No. 45, London, 1821
      • Joseph Anthony Berrollas No. 285, for Richard Willson, No. 9381, London, 1830
      • Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy 
        • Fra(nçoi)s Risdon (Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy), Nr. 708, London, 1810
        • Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, Nr. 2475, London, 1825
        • Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, Code: nrzm, London, 1830
        • Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, Code: mrim, London, 1833
        • Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, Nr. 6060, London, 1853
      • The Industrial Revolution  1760 – 1840; Pierre – Frédéric Ingold
        • Pierre – Frédéric Ingold (British Watch and Clockmaking Co.) No. 88 for Thomas BLOOMFIELD, No 1850, London, 1843
      • Frodsham
        • Parkinson & Frodsham, No. 2401, London, 1845
        • Charles Frodsham, No. 7328, London, 1849
      • Nicole & Capt
        • Nicole & Capt for E. J. Dent, No, 14449, London, 1849
        • Nicole & Capt for Robert A. Phillips, No. 2157, London, 1865
        • Nicole & Capt for Charles Edward Viner, No. 2/588, London, 1868
      • John Sanders, No. 3, Sheffield, 1862
    • 19th Century – France
      • Breguet
        • A. – L. Breguet, No. 726, Paris, 1802
        • A. – L. Breguet, (Caliber Template), Paris, 1805
        • Breguet & Fils, (Dial Prototype), Paris, 1810
        • Breguet & Fils, (Caliber Template), Paris, 1812
        • Breguet & Fils, (Tourbillon Caliber Template), Paris, 1810 – 1813
        • Anonymous (Breguet & Fils), Paris, 1810 – 1815
        • Breguet & Fils, (Montre Simple), Paris, 1815 – 1820
        • Breguet & Fils, (Caliber Template), Paris, 1815
        • Breguet & Fils, No. 2749, (Ebauche Marine Chronometer), Paris, 1815
        • Breguet & Fils, (Caliber Template), Paris, 1820
        • Breguet & Fils, (Fatton inking chronograph), Paris, 1822
        • Breguet & Fils, (Ebauche Montre Simple), Paris, 1820 – 1823
        • Breguet, (Dial Template), Paris, 1825
        • Breguet, (Prototype dials), Paris, 1827
        • Breguet, (Ebauche Montre Simple), Paris, 1830
        • Breguet, (Experimental), Paris, 1835
      • Oudin
        • Joseph – Jacques Oudin, No. 146, Paris, 1804
        • Joseph – Jacques Oudin, No. 218, Paris, 1804
      • Antide Janvier, No. 1/1804, Paris, 1804
      • Anonymous (probably Le Roy or Lépine), Paris, 1810
    • 19th Century Switzerland
      • Georges – Frédéric Roskopf, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1868
  • 20th Century
    • Paul Ditisheim, No. 405913, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1925
  • Books & Ephemera
    • Ferdinand Berthoud, ‘L’Art de Conduire et de Régler les Pendules et les Montres’, First Edition, Paris, 1759
    • Handwritten note by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand – Périgord, Paris, 1796
    • Letter to Jean – Antoine Lépine, Paris, 1807
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