Antique Clocks, Watches and Barometers.(Antieke klokken, Antike Uhren, Horlogerie Ancienne)

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Barometers.
Clocks.
General History and Science.
Instruments.
Makers & Manufacturers.
Technical aspects.
Watches.

General history and science.

Jean Claude Sabrier & Sebastian Whitestone.
The Identification and Attribution of Christiaan
Huygen's First Pendulum Clock.

Early Pendulum Clocks.
A compilation page on the subject of early pendulum clocks.

Hans van den Ende , Ben Hordijk, Victor Kersing, Rob Memel.
The Invention of the Pendulum Clock.

Keith Piggott
Ahasuerus Fromanteel's 1649 'Cromwellian and Royal' Astronomical and Musical Sun-Clock.

Keith Piggott
A Royal Haagse Klok' by Severijn Oosterwijck.

Alan Emmerson *
Huygens, the Pendulum, and the Cycloid, MSWord 3.0 MB

Reinier Plomp.
The earliest Dutch and French pendulum clocks.

John C. Taylor.
John Fromanteel's Brass and Steel.

Keith Piggott
'The Coster Fromanteel Contract', its continued place in modern scholarship.

Compilation of 'The Coster Fromanteel Contract'.

Speculations on the historical backgrounds of 'The Coster Fromanteel Contract'.

Reinier Plomp.
A Longitude Timekeeper by Isaac Thuret with the Balance Spring. Invented by Christiaan Huygens.

Christian Huygens *
Oeuvres compl¨¨tes.

Christian Huygens *
Horologium oscillatorium 1673.

Christiaan Huygens
Horologium 1658.

Christiaan Huygens*
Correspondence. In het Nederlands.

Fabien Chicha *
Equation of time.

Osvaldo Patrizzi *
A brief history of the Art of Enamelling. Part I.

Philadelphia Exhibition 1876 *
Report to the Federal High Council by Ed. Favre-Perret. Translated by Richard Watkins.

Pier van Leeuwen.
'The Dutch connection'
A short history of the Dutch clock.

Pier van Leeuwen.
'Johann Hevelius' forgotten Pioneer of the Pendulum Clock.

BoomTime Foundation *
Time for Clocks
(Tijd voor klokken) A Dutch educational site on horological developments through the ages.

Huygens' Legacy *.
A unique exhibition (2004) with 90 prestigious early pendulum clocks showing the road from invention to perfection.

Japanese Time.
An introduction on the Japanese way of 'temporal hours' timekeeping.

Asian Timepieces.*
An introduction.

La Misura del Tempo * exhibition on the ancient splendour of Italian clockmaking from the 15th-18th century.

History of Timepieces *
Articles index of Horology Source.

Osvaldo Patrizzi *
A brief history of the Art of Enamelling. Part II.

J E Bosschieter *
A history of the evolution of
electric clocks.

Dr. Theodore R. Crom *
Art in Antique horological tools.

Philip Poniz *
The decorative aspects of American horology.

Carlos A Perez, Japan and the Horological Tradition *

Diagram on English horology 1657-1750.

Protection of Public Clocks Seminar report by Melgert Spaander.

David Thompson *
A Chronology of Clocks.

Styles & Periods.

Roland Buser *
Watchterms & Famous makers.

Clepsydra Water clocks
from Rees's 1819 universal dictionary.

La Voce di Hora *
Pubblicazione dell'associazione Italiana cultori di orologeria antica.

Robert Loomes *
Dating painted dial grandfather clocks.

Collectors Weekly *
Various articles on Clocks.

J J O'Connor and
E F Robertson *
English attack on the longitude problem.

J J O'Connor and
E F Robertson
Longitude and the Acad¨¦mie Royale.

Diary of a Trip to England 1763 *
Jerome Lalande, Translated by Richard Watkins.

Magazines & further reading

Korte inleiding antieke klokken en horloges. *

The book of days. *
Matters connected with the Church Calendar, including the Popular Festivals, Saints' Days, and other Holidays, with illustrations of Christian Antiquities in general.

Write ups.

Osvaldo Patrizzi *
Various publications.

Digitized books *
by Richard Watkins.

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General history continued:

Hans v.d. Kamp
Hora Est. Ontstaan, opbloei, neergang en nabloei van het stoelklokkenmakersambacht.

Kiefer *
Schwarzwälder Uhren-Geschichte.

The Coster Fromanteel Contract. The Van der Horst transcript working sheet.

Ingrid Hielle *
Time measurement, a brief history.

Ship's bell.
About how Nautical Time is divided into seven watches.

Revolutionary calendar.
Dials & Symbols of the French revolution. The Republican Calendar and Decimal time.

Roman numerals.

Liste des articles disponibles pour la revue "Horlogerie ancienne".

Klassik Uhren Magazine *
Important Archive to search.
(PDF, Articles in German)

Clocks.

Sunny Dzik.
Engraving on English table clocks.

Melgert Spaander.
Tompion no. 145, a true Dutch striking English clock.

Osvaldo Patrizzi *
The Traveling clock or Carriage clock, and a the Coach clock.

Ton Bollen.
A brief compilation on French Comtoise clocks (Morbiers).

Friedrich Brass und
Oliver König
Die Geschichte der Bergischen Uhr.

Der Uhrenkopf von Johann Friedrich Bick.
Ein weiteres wichtiges Bindeglied.

Pier van Leeuwen
Van Koekoeksklok tot Regulateur.
Black forest clocks (1740-1900)

Prof. C. A. Grimbergen.
Nu Elck Syn Sin.
Zaans Clocks from the 17^th and 18^th Century.

Brian Loomes *
Antique Clock Articles:
- Conversion Lantern Clocks and Richard Smith.
- The First Clockmakers in Suffolk and the Earliest Known Suffolk Clock.
- Oak Longcase Clocks with Brass Dials, plain or fancy.
- A Lantern Clock in a Wooden Case with Corbels.
- A Ten-inch Penny Moon Dial Longcase in Pine by William Northrop of Wakefield.
- A New Clock by Samuel Ogden.
- A Suffolk Lantern Clock by Richard Rayment of Bury St. Edmunds.
- A Four-hundred-year-old Sundial.
- Turkish Market Clocks.
- A Sleeper Awakened.
- New clocks from old.
- An interesting country clock.

The Mercy-Argenteau *
musical longcase clock. !

Peg-gear clock. Wooden gears and the Pendulum clock. *

Bernard Meier. *(pdf)
Black Marble. Tentoonstelling Zwart Marmer. Over de toepassing en ontginning van zwart marmer voor de vervaardiging van klokkenkasten. Open Monumentendag 2003.

Robert Loomes *
Dating painted dial grandfather clocks.

Martin Ridout *
Electric Horology .

Watches.

Stacy Perman *
World's most expensive timepieces.

Watchmaking and the American System of Manufacturing *
By Richard Watkins.

Geoffroy Ader *
Official Sports Timekeepers in the Watch Industry.

American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876 *
Jacques David. Reports to the Intercantonal Committee of Jura Industries on the manufacture of watches in the United States, 1877. Translated by Richard Watkins.

The origins of self-winding rotor watches *
by Joseph Flores, 1998 Gaïa Prize for History.

Richard Watkins
The Origins Of Self-Winding Watches 1773 - 1779

The Finishing of the Watch Case *
By Emile Graupmann. Translated by Richard Watkins.

Kees Grimbergen
& Cees Peeters.
A Dutch, early 18th century, Captains watch with Multiple Tide table. Signed: G.J. Nauta, Leuwaerden.

Sharon Kerman Bailly *
Telling much more than time.
french marine chronometry in four watches.

Essay on Repeater Watches *
by Francois Crespe, 1804. Revised Edition Translated and augmented by Richard Watkins.

Longines History *

Various articles *
on mainly contemporary, watches. Compiled by the Purist.com.

Elgin watches history.

Clare Vincent *
Some Seventeenth-Century French Painted Enamel Watchcases.

The History of a Watch *
By L. Borsendorff, Translated by Richard Watkins.

Watches by machinery.
About the new Elgin factory, 1869.

History and design of the Roskopf watch *
By Eugene Buffat. Translated by Richard Watkins.

Paul Schliesser *
Gruen, The Art & Mystery of watchmaking 1874-1958.

Watch Manufacture in Switzerland *
The Saturday Magazine, London, 1842.

The Keyless Mechanism *
(remontoire) A Practical Treatise on its Design and Repair by B. Hillmann. Translated by Richard Watkins.

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Watches continued:

'Petite Ronde', by Jean Claude Sabrier. About Pierre Le Roy's pocket watchesfor the use of astronomers and seamen.

Patek Philippe *
ThePuristS visit the the new manufactory Oct. 2003.

Vacheron & Constantin *
A Chronology. *
The advertising saga of the watch industry.

Osvaldo Patrizzi *
Geneva Enamels. Fr¨¨res Huaud (Huaut Huault), Jean Petitor, Jacques Bordier, Piere Preur, Jean Mussard, Jean Antoine, Jean Andr¨¦, Gabriel Fontaine, Andr¨¦ Dottner, Grmain Colladon.

Geoffroy Ader *
The advertising saga of the watch industry.

Culture de la haute horlogerie.* In History.

-The Poldi Pezzoli Collection of clocks and watches.
-Galileo’s Astrolabe, Museo Galileo in Florence.
-Mantel clock by Jean Baptiste Dutertre at Staatliches Museum Schwerin.
-Astronomical clock by Johann Sayller at the Landesmuseum Wurttemberg.
-Breguet et Fils Pocket Watch, Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida.
-The ancient art of time measurement : French Glass dial mystery mantle clock, Museo Cerralbo Madrid.
-The ancient art of time measurement: Georg Bayr watch at the Schmuck und Uhrenmuseum Pforzheim.
-A Genevan heritage, cherished by Chopard.
-Geneva exhibits its horological treasures.
-Decimal time: the revolution that never was.

Genevieve Cummins.
The wearing of pocket watches.

The History of:*
A. Lange & Sohne
Audemars Piguet
Blancpain
Breguet
Cartier
Franck Muller
Girard Perregaux
International Watch Company (I.W.C.)
Jaeger-LeCoultre
Patek Philippe
Piaget
Rolex
Ulysse Nardin
Vacheron Constantin

Osvaldo Patrizzi *
Various publications.

Barometers

Marco Fontijn.
The sympiesometer designed by Alexander Adie: an unusually short 'barometer' without mercury.

Barometer.ws *
Brief history of the Barometer.

Marco Fontijn.
Hendrik Prins, de koning van de Nederlandse barometerkunst.

Jean Jacques Milan *
Barom¨¨tre, general history and technology. (in french)

Instruments.symbols

J. Kugel *
Spheres the art of celestial mechanic.

Famous curves *
University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Alice Heyne *
Die altägyptische Wasseruhr (Klepsydra)

An Astrolabe dated 1559 *

Sara Schechner *
Harvard University
The Material Culture of Astronomy in daily life. Sundials, science and social change.

Technical aspects.

Watch & Clock Escapements*
The Project Gutenberg eBook

Mark Headrick *
Clock and Watch escapement mechanics.

David M. MacMillan *
Transcription of:
Harrison M. Frodsham's
"Some Material for a R¨¦sum¨¦ of Remontoires" Installment of February, 1878.

The Origin and Evolution of the Anchor Clock Escapement *

Makers & Manufacturers.

Martin Ridout *
English Clock Systems Ltd (Smiths, Relyon)
The results of research into the history of English Clock Systems Ltd, its predecessor Synchro Time Systems Ltd, and their products.

Hans Kreft.
Rediscovering the Fromanteel story. Translated and adapted for the Horological Foundation website by
R.K. Piggott.

Friedrich Brass und
Oliver König.
Neueste Erkenntnisse ¨¹ber den Bergischen Uhrmacher Johann Peter Peddinghaus senior.

Pierre Frédéric Ingold, 1787-1878 *
From Schweizer Pioniere der Wirtschaft undTechnik, 1662 #13. Translated by Richard Watkins.

John G. Kirk *
The Brocots, a dynasty of horologers.

A Treatise on the Teeth of Wheels *
By C.E.L. Camus. 1750. Reproduced by Richard Watkins.

Heroes of horology *
Many portraits of historical horologists.

Nanne Ottema *
Geschiedenis van de Uurwerkmakerskunst In Friesland.

Otto-Max Herbstritt *
Jacob Herbstreith 1763 - 1845. Leben und Werke des Uhrenmachers aus Eisenbach im Schwarzwald. Jockele Uhren.

Manfred vom Brocke.
Uhrmacher, Uhren und Schreiner im Grenzraum Bergisches Land - Grafschaft Mark zwischen 1760 und 1840.

Mestrom, P.Th.R. (Eisma) *.
Uurwerken & uurwerkmakers in Limburg, 1367-1850
Horology and Horologists in Limburg (NED)

Silvio A. Bedini
Nuzzi, una famiglia di orologiai in Rincine.

Anthony Woodburn.
A comparison of the lives and work of THOMAS TOMPION and JOSEPH KNIBB.

Jean-Claude Sabrier and Sharon Kerman *
The Jaquet Droz: Visionaries and Trend-Setters.

Osvaldo Patrizzi *
Louis Cottier, a watchmaking genius ahead of his time.

Philip Poniz *
Patek Philippe:The Forgotten Beginnings.

Jens Olsens astronomical clock.*

Black Forrest Clocks & History*

Movies by 'Culture de la haute horlogerie'.*
The Watchmaker
The Enameller
The Guillocheur
The Watch designer
The Crystal-maker
The Strap maker
The Engraver
The Stone-setter
The Hands-maker
The Dial-maker

Aug. Schatz & Söhne * (pdf)
100 Jahre Jahresuhren-Fabrik GmbH.