List of watchmakers

This chronological list of famous watchmakers is a list of those who influenced the development of horology or gained iconic status by their creations. The list is sorted by the lifetimes of the watchmakers.

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Dates of birth and death, if known
Country of origin and profession
Field of activity (italics)

Until 1400[]

(1555–1505 BC), Egyptian count and engineer, clepsydra.
Ktesibios (3rd century BC), Greek engineer, clepsydra with hands and dial.
(1st century BC), Greek engineer, clepsydra and sun dial.
Zhang Heng (78–139), Chinese mathematician and inventor, clepsydra with extra reservoir.
(6th century AD), Chinese engineer, clepsydra with constant water level.
(7th century AD), Chinese engineer, balancing clepsydra.
(7th century AD), Chinese engineer, balancing clepsydra.
Yi Xing (683–727), Chinese Buddhist and engineer, astronomical clock.
Zhang Sixun (10th century AD), Chinese engineer, clepsydra with water wheel.
Su Song (11th century AD), Chinese engineer, clepsydra with water wheel and ratchet.
, Arabic engineer and author of the 12th century, elephant clock.
Richard of Wallingford (1292–1336), English mathematician, astronomer and abbot, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, astronomical clock of Abbey St Albans.
Jacopo de Dondi (1293–1359), Italian astronomer and clockmaker, Padua, astronomical clock of Palazzo del Capitanio.
Giovanni de Dondi (1318–1389), Italian savant and professor, Milan, astrarium.
(1350/1365–1418/1435), German clockmaker and engineer, Rostock, astronomical clock of the St. Nicholas' Church in Stralsund.
Mikuláš z Kadaně (1350–1420), Czech clockmaker and mechanic, Prague, Prague astronomical clock.

1400–1500[]

Friar (c. 1475), German Augustine clockmaker, Augsburg, first drawing of the verge escapement.
(?–1540), Bohemian clockmaker, Prague, table clocks.
(or Couldray) (?–1530), French watchmaker, Paris, royal watchmaker of Louis XI of France and Francis I of France, rapier handle watch.
Peter Henlein (c. 1479–1542), German locksmith, Nürnberg, portable clocks and watches.
Nicolaus Kratzer (1487–late 1550), German mathematician and astronomer, Munich, royal astronomer of Henry VIII of England, sun dial.
(c. 1489–1545), Swiss clockmaker, Winterthur, founder of the clockmaker dynasty Liechti.
(c. 1489–1548), German and Swiss clockmaker, Freiburg im Breisgau, turret clocks.
Kaspar Brunner (?–1561), Swiss mechanic, Bern, Zytglogge.

1500–1600[]

Elias Allen (1588–1653)

(1500–1572), Czech astronomer and mechanic, Prague, Prague astronomical clock.
Juanelo Turriano (c. 1500–1585), Spanish clockmaker of the court, Toledo, astronomical clock, restoring the astrarium of Giovanni Dondi.
(?–1588), German clockmaker, Munich, sun dials, clockmaker of the court.
Taqi al-Din (1526–1585), Ottoman clockmaker, Istanbul, astronomical clocks, and instruments, alarm clock, pocket watch.
Bartholomew Newsam (?–1593); English watchmaker, London, royal watchmaker of Elizabeth I of England.
(1525–1593), German Hofbaumeister and astronomer, Kassel, , Planetenlaufuhr.
(c. 1530–1591), Swiss clockmaker, Winterthur.
(1530–c. 1592), German clockmaker, Augsburg, astronomical table clocks.
(1530–1597), German clockmaker, Nürnberg, table clocks, grandfather clocks.
(1530–1608), German clockmaker, Augsburg, sun dial, astrolabe.
(1531–1568), French clockmaker, London, clockmaker of the court from Edward VI of England to Elizabeth I of England.
(?–1590), English clockmaker, London, clockmaker of the court of Elizabeth I of England.
Erasmus Habermehl (c. 1538–1606), clockmaker, Prague, astronomical and geodetic instruments.
Isaac Habrecht (1544–1620), Swiss clockmaker, Schaffhausen, astronomical clock of the Straßburger Münster.
(1546–1592), German clockmaker, Augsburg, Globusuhren.
(1546–1624), German instrument maker, Dresden, sun dial.
(1546–1625), German clockmaker, Augsburg, automatic clocks.
(c. 1550), Austrian clockmaker, Vienna, clockmaker of the court.
(1550–1596), German clockmaker, Augsburg, astrolabe, table clocks.
Jost Bürgi (1552–1632), German clockmaker and instrument builder, Kassel, astronomer.
(1552–1575), Swiss clockmaker, Schaffhausen, astronomical clock of the Straßburger Münster.
Hans Leo Haßler (1564–1612), German composer and clockmaker, Nürnberg. music boxes.
(c. 1580), German clockmaker, Bamberg, wooden clock with automated figurines.
(before 1580–c. 1652), German clockmaker, Nürnberg. sun dial.
(1582–1617), English clockmaker, London, clockmaker of the court.
(1582–1662), Austrian clockmaker, Vienna.
Elias Allen (1588–1653), (C. C.), English clockmaker, London, sun dials.
(c. 1590–?), French clockmaker, Geneva, cross clocks and astronomical pocket watches.
(?–1649), French clockmaker, Lyon, shape watches, pendant watches.
David Ramsey (c. 1590–1654), English clockmaker, London, clockmaker of the court, pocket watch.
(c. 1595), German clockmaker, Augsburg, clockmaker of the court in Wien, rolling ball clock.
(1595–1651), Swiss watchmaker, Geneva, shape clocks, crucifix clocks.
(1597–1668), German watchmaker, Ulm, rolling ball clock, turret clocks, table clocks.
(1598–1652), French clockmaker, Blois, clockmaker of the court.
, German vicar, Osnabrück. craft clock with a centrifugal pendulum (1578 to 1587).

1600–1700[]

Christopher Pinchbeck (1670–1732)

(1602–1661), German clockmaker, Straßburg, astronomical clock.
(1602–1674), German clockmaker, Arnstadt.
(1606–1684), Swiss watchmaker, Geneva, complicated pocket watch.
Ahasuerus Fromanteel (1607–1693), Dutch clockmaker, London and Amsterdam, pendulum clocks.
(1608–1674), Dutch clockmaker, Utrecht.
Edward East (bl. 1610–1693), (C. C.), English clockmaker, London, cofounder of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, clockmaker of the court.
David Ramsay (bl. 1613–1651), (first Master of the C. C.), Scottish clockmaker, London, clockmaker of the court of and
Salomon Coster (1622–1659), Dutch clockmaker, The Hague, first pendulum clock like Christiaan Huygens.
Albrecht Erb (1628–1714), Austrian clockmaker, Vienna, clockmaker of the court, astronomical clock.
Isaac Thuret (?–1706), French clockmaker, Paris, clockmaker of the court.
(?–1699), (C. C.), English clockmaker, London, Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
(1632–?), French watchmaker, pocket watches.
Edward Barlow (1636–1716), English watchmaker, ratchet chime with repeater.
(1638–1704), English watchmaker, London, .
Thomas Tompion (1639–1713), (C. C.), English clockmaker, London, Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
Joseph Knibb (1640–1711), English clockmaker, London, clocks.
(1642–1721), German watchmaker, Augsburg, pocket watches, sun dials and table clocks.
Jean de Hautefeuille (1647–1724), French physician and inventor, Orléans, balance wheel.
(1648–1723), Dutch watchmaker, Utrecht, guilt master.
Daniel Quare (1648–1724), (C. C.), English watchmaker, London, Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, rack strike movement with repetition.
(1650–after 1700), English clockmaker, London, longcase clock, table clocks.
(1658–1726), German clockmaker, Augsburg, clock, sun dial.
(1658–1740), Swiss Jesuit, royal clockmaker of the court of China.
George Etherington (?1660–1728), (C. C.), English clockmaker, York, London, Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
(1663–1714), German clockmaker, Ulm. Clockmaker of the city Ulm, longcase clock.
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664–1753), Swiss mathematician, Duillier, drilled rubies.
(1665–1731), Italian astronomer, mathematician and instrument manufacturer in Venice,
Jacques Thuret (1669–1738), French watchmaker, Paris, clockmaker of the court Louis XIV of France.
Christopher Pinchbeck (1670–1732), English watchmaker, London.
(1671–1750), German clockmaker, Schollach, Waag clock, teacher.
George Graham (1673–1751), English watchmaker, London.
Franz Ketterer (1676–1749), German clockmaker, Schönwald im Schwarzwald, cuckoo clock.
(1676–1764), English clockmaker. London, clockmaker of the court of George II.
(1677–1725), German priest and maker of sun dial, Eichstätt.
Jean Dutertre (1684–1734), French watchmaker, Paris, duplex escapement.
(1684–1762), Czech mathematician, astronomer and mechanic, Prague, astronomical clock and instruments at the Clementinum.
Julien Le Roy (1686–1759), French clockmaker of the court Louis XV of France, Paris, pocket watch, introduction of oil sinks.
(1693–1759), German watchmaker, Würzburg.
Jehan-Jacques Blancpain (1693–?), Swiss watchmaker, Villeret. Founder of watch company Blancpain.
John Harrison (1693–1776), English carpenter and autodidact watchmaker, London, chronometer
(1695–1763), German watchmaker, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, the Palatinate privileged watchmaker.
(1697–1753), Austrian clockmaker, Vienna, longcase clocks, carriage clocks.
Henry Bridges (1697–1754), English architect and clockmaker, Waltham Abbey, Monumentaluhr Microcosm
(1699–1778), watchmaker in Paris, master since 1717

1700–1800[]

1700–1750[]

John Jefferys (1701–1754), (C. C.), English watchmaker, London, pocket watches
(1701–1778), Swiss clockmaker, Basel, night clocks.
(1705–1767), Swedish watchmaker, Stjärnsund.
(1706–1772), English watchmaker and inventor, London, clockmaker of the court, .
Jacques de Vaucanson (1709–1782), French watchmaker, Paris, automaton clocks.
(1711–1772), Swiss clockmaker, Paris, one year clock.
(1712–1797), English clockmaker, London, .
(1713–1797), German clockmaker, Bamberg,
John Whitehurst (1713–1788), English clockmaker, Derby.
Jean Romilly (1714–1796), Swiss watchmaker, Paris, pocket watch.
(1714–1804), Swiss watchmaker of French origin, clockmaker of the court in Dresden and director of the Grünes Gewölbe.
(1715–1742), French watchmaker, duplex escapement.
(1715–1772), German clockmaker, Frankenthal, mechanic, piano builder and mint master, clockmaker of the Palatine Zweibrücken court in Zweibrücken.
Thomas Mudge (1715–1794), English watchmaker, London. inventor of the free lever escapement.
Pierre Le Roy (1717–1785), French watchmaker, Paris, marine chronometer.
(1717–1790), German clockmaker, Munich, clockmaker of the court and mechanic of the court.
(1718–1787), German watchmaker, Hachenburg.
Larcum Kendall (1719–1790), British watchmaker, London, marine chronometer.
(1720–1789), French royal watchmaker, Paris.
(1720–1814), French watchmaker, Paris, , pocket watch.
(1720 or 1726–1767), German watchmaker, Mannheim, clockmaker of the court.
Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721–1790), Swiss clockmaker, La Chaux-de-Fonds.
James Cox (1723?–1800), English clockmaker, London, machines, export clocks.
(1726–1787), Swiss clockmaker, Bern, pendulums.
(Frater David a Sancto Cajetano) (1726–1796), clockmaker and mechanic, Vienna, astronomical clock.
, (1727–1802), French royal clockmaker, Paris.
(1727–1791), Dutch clockmaker, Dordrecht, astronomical clock, marine chronometer.
Ferdinand Berthoud (1727–1807), Swiss watchmaker and author, Paris, marine chronometer.
(1728–1782), German Augustine friar, Thüringen, astronomical longcase clock.
(1729–1805), German watchmaker, Friedberg, carriage clock.
(1729–1807) Swiss chronometer maker, Paris.
Abraham-Louis Perrelet (1729–1826), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, pocket watch.
Jean-Marc Vacheron (1731–1805), Swiss watchmaker, Geneva, founder of Vacheron Constantin.
Josiah Emery (1732–1794), Swiss-born London-based watchmaker, the first to incorporate the lever escapement invented by Thomas Mudge
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799), French entrepreneur and writer, Paris, double comma escapement.
Alexander Cumming (1733–1814), (C. C.), English watchmaker, mathematician and mechanic, London.
(1735–1818), Russian clockmaker and inventor, Nizhny Novgorod, automated clock for Catherine the Great.
(1735–1813), German clockmaker, Eberbach, locksmith and clockmaker.
John Arnold (1736–1799), (C. C.), English watchmaker, London, marine chronometer.
(1737–1805), Swedish clockmaker of the court of Gustav III of Sweden, Stockholm, cartel clock.
(1739–1809), German schoolmaster and mechanic, Onstmettingen, astronomical clock.
Philipp Matthäus Hahn (1739–1790), German pastor, engineer, and inventor.
(1739–1815), German clockmaker, Fischbach, Kaiserslautern, clockmaker of the court.
Mette Magrete Tvistman (1741–1827), Danish clockmaker
(1742–1799), French watchmaker, Paris, clockmaker of the court, pocket watch, pendulums.
(?–1806), French watchmaker, Paris. clockmaker of the court.
(?–1810), English watchmaker, London, chronometer.
(1743–1793), Swiss watchmaker and inventor, Geneva, lever escapement.
(1743–1830), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, pocket watch, tourbillon. ^[1]
(1745–1811), Danish watchmaker and manufacturer, Le Locle, pocket watch, longcase clock.
Peter Kinzing (1745–1816), German clockmaker and mechanic.
(1746–1794), German clockmaker, Heidelberg, city clock maker.
(1746–1831), English watchmaker, Edinburgh, .
(1747–1824), Swiss clockmaker, Geneva, androids
Benjamin Vulliamy (1747–1811), English clockmaker of the court George III of the United Kingdom, London, , pocket watch, .
Abraham Louis Breguet (1747–1823), Swiss watchmaker and mechanic, tourbillon, Breguet overcoil.
John Brockbank (1747–1806), English chronometer maker, London, pocket and marine chronometer.
(1748–1808), English chronometer maker, London, pocket and marine chronometer.
(1748–1811), English watchmaker, London, pocket watch.
(1748–1824), German clockmaker and mathematician, Freiburg, .
(1748–1828), Belgian clockmaker, Liège, pendulums, automatic pocket watch.
(1749–1813), French watchmaker and manufacturer, Beaucourt, ébauche.
(1749–1814), German clockmaker, student of Hahn, astronomical clock.
Thomas Earnshaw (1749–1829), English clock and chronometer maker, London, marine chronometer.
(1749–1836), Swiss watchmaker, Geneva, Präzisionstaschenuhren.

1750–1800[]

(1770–1849)

(1774–1845)

(1782–1833)

(1798–1880)

(1750–1800), German clockmaker, Hachenburg.
(1750–1820), (C. C.), English clockmaker, London, chronometer.
(1750–1825), German mystic, Nürnberg. sun dial, mechanical terrestrial and celestial globes.
Antide Janvier (1751–1835), French clockmaker, Paris, astronomical clock.
(1751–1833), German clockmaker, Freudenberg, grandfather clocks.
(1753–1826), German engineer of astronomical clocks.
Simon Willard, (1753–1848), American clockmaker, Boston, Banjo-Clock.
(1754–1813), French watchmaker, Paris, chronometer, pocket watches.
(1754–1799), German watchmaker, Neustadt.
(1754–1826), German clockmaker and author, Berlin, chief clockmaker of the court, pendulum clocks.
(1756–1835), German clockmaker and gunsmith, Lindenfels-Odenwald.
(1758–1832), Swiss watchmaker, La Chaux-de-Fonds, pocket watch and pendulums.
(1759–1823), German clockmaker. inventor of a calculator.
Levi Hutchins (1761–1855), American clockmaker, Concord (New Hampshire), inventor of the alarm clock.
(1763–1820), Austrian clockmaker, Vienna, Laterndluhr.
(?–1843), Austrian clockmaker, Vienna, .
(ca. 1764–1844), English watchmaker, London, pocket watches for the Chinese market.
(1765–1826), German engineer, astronomical clocks.
Jacob Auch (1765–1842), south German clockmaker, Weimar, student of Philipp Matthäus Hahn, clockmaker of the court.
(1765–1842), German clockmaker, mechanic and inventor, Hannover, three-wheeled driving machine.
Louis Moinet (1768–1853), French watchmaker, sculptor, and painter, Paris, chronograph, clocks.
John Roger Arnold (1769–1843), (C. C.), English clockmaker, London, marine and pocket chronometer.
(c. 1770–1824), Austrian clockmaker, Graz, first Austrian clock producer.
(1770–1849), Swiss chronometer maker, Le Locle, marine chronometer, tourbillon.
(1772–1828), English jurist and technician, London, rolling ball clock.
(1772–1837), Swiss watchmaker, Geneva, very thin pocket watches.
Eli Terry (1772–1852), American manufacturer and clockmaker, Connecticut, introduction of mass production to clock making.
(1774–1845), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, highly complicated pocket watch.
John Bliss (1775–1857) American chronometer maker, New York, marine chronometer.
Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (1776–1856), French clockmaker, Straßburg, restorer of the clockwork of the astronomical clock at the Straßburger Münster.
Urban Jürgensen (1776–1830), Danish watchmaker, Copenhagen, , tourbillon.
(1777–1827), German clockmaker Lindenfels.
(1779–1850), English clock and chronometer maker, London, chronometer.
John Barwise (1780 or 1790–1842), English clock and chronometer maker.
(1780–1858), Czech clockmaker, Prague, .
(1780–1854), (C. C.), English clockmaker, turret clock, clocks, clockmaker of the court.
(1781–1849), German-Danish chronometer maker, Altona, marine chronometer and .
(1782–1833), Swiss watchmaker and manufacturer, Le Brassus.
Josef Božek (1782–1835), Czech inventor and clockmaker, Prague, .
(1782–1861), German clockmaker, Hachenburg.
(1785–1845), Dresden, watchmaker, royal clockmaker of the court.
Seth Thomas (1785–1859), American manufacturer and clockmaker, Connecticut, Seth Thomas Clocks.
(1786–1857), French chronometer maker, Paris, marine chronometer.
(1787–1860), American clockmaker, Connecticut, wooden clock.
(also: ) (1787–1878), Swiss watchmaker and manufacturer, La Chaux-de-Fonds/Boston, pocket watch, tools (Ingold-Fräse).
(1788–1854), Swiss entrepreneur, Geneva, Vacheron Constantin.
Thomas Frederick Cooper(1789-1863) English watchmaker London, pocket watch
Edward John Dent (1790–1853), English watchmaker, London, pocket watch, marine chronometer.
(1793–1871), French clockmaker, Paris, chronometer, longcase clock.
Chauncey Jerome (1793–1868), American clockmaker, Connecticut,
(1794–1877), German clockmaker, Berlin, marine chronometer.
, (1796–1866), Bohemian watch producer, Prague, pendulum clocks, k.u.k. Hoflieferant.
Edouard Bovet (1797–1849), Swiss watchmaker and entrepreneur, watch brand Bovet.
(1798–1880), English watchmaker, London, pocket watch, .
Johann Mannhardt (1798–1878), German maker of turret clocks, Munich, Mannhardt-Escapement, turret clock Münchner Frauenkirche.
Joseph Saxton (1799–1873), American clockmaker, inventor and instrument maker, Philadelphia.
(1799–1886), Austrian watchmaker, Paris, marine chronometer.
(before 1800–after 1852), Austrian clock and chronometer maker, Vienna. clockmaker of the court, tourbillon.

1800–1900[]

1800–1850[]

(1817–1887)

(1824–1889)

(?–1827), (C. C.), English clockmaker, London, the Great Clock of Westminster.
(1800–1860), French big clock maker, Paris, .
(1800–1880), English chronometer maker, compensation for secondary temperature error.
(1800–1884), Swiss watchmaker and inventor, Geneva, Vacheron Constantin.
(1800–1863), Swiss watchmaker, hardening of steel spirals.
(1800–1868), English watchmaker, London, pocket watch for the Turkish market.
(1801–1869), French clockmaker, Paris, electric clocks.
Carl August von Steinheil (1801–1870), German physician and astronomer, Munich, first electric clock.
(1801–1867), Swiss watchmaker, astronomer and inventor, Geneva, astronimichal time theory implementation.
(1802–1874), English chronometer maker, London.
George Airy (1802–1892), English astronomer and director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
Andreas Hohwü (1803–1885), Dutch chronometer maker, Amsterdam, astronomical clock.
(1803–1881), Swiss watchmaker, Le Sentier, Jaeger-LeCoultre.
(1804–1873), Swiss Watchmaker, Le Locle, founder of Tissot.
(1804–1883), French watchmaker, Paris, central clock of Lyon, tuning fork clock.
(1804–1895), French watchmaker, Versailles, director of the royal factory, director of the watchmaking school of Cluses.
Heinrich Moser (1805–1874), Swiss watchmaker from Schaffhausen (Switzerland), founder of H. Moser & Cie.
(1805–1878), German clockmaker, Furtwangen, Schwarzwald.
(1805–1885), German master watchmaker and entrepreneur, Wiesbaden.
(1806–1887), French clockmaker, Beauvais, astronomical clock.
(1806–1881), German mechanic and optician, Barth.
(1806–1886), German clockmaker and mechanic, Koblenz, clocks with worm gears.
(1807–?), German clockmaker and manufacturer, Furtwangen, wall clocks.
(1807–1880), German musical clock maker, Freiburg im Breisgau, M. Welte & Sons Co., Schwarzwald.
(1808–1877), Danish watch- and chronometer maker, Le Locle, .
(1809–1877), Swiss Watchmaker, Fribourg, founder of Longines.
Charles Frodsham (1810–1871), English watch and chronometer maker, London, chronometer, tourbillon.
(1811–1869), Swiss chronometer maker, Le Locle, astronomical pendulum clock.
(1811–1877), Scottish watchmaker and inventor. Glasgow.
(1811–1888), German farmer and tinker, inventor of the l about 1875.
(1811–1897), German clockmaker, Harz, Turmuhren.
(1811–1877), Polish pioneer in watchmaking, creator of
(1812–1887), German clockmaker, Halle/Lähn, pocket watch, Turmuhren.
Aaron Lufkin Dennison (1812–1895), American watchmaker, Maine, USA. Waltham Watch Company. pocket watch.
(1813–1889), German watchmaker, La Chaux-de-Fonds, .
Matthäus Hipp (1813–1893), German clockmaker, Bern, electric .
(1813–1904), American watchmaker and manufacturer, Waltham Watch Company, pocket watch.
(1814–1863), German watchmaker, Hachenburg, .
(1814–1899), Czech inventor and watchmaker, Prague.
(1815–1875), German watchmaker and entrepreneur, Glashütte.
Adrien Philippe (1815–1894), French watchmaker, Paris, Patek Philippe.
Johann Baptist Beha (1815–1898), German clockmaker, Eisenbach, Black Forest cuckoo clock.
Edward Daniel Johnson (1816–1889), (C. C.), English watchmaker, London, chronometer, fellow of the Royal Society.
(1816–1896), French watchmaker and teacher, Paris.
(1816–1905), English lawyer and architect, Nottinghamshire, engineer of the turret clock of Big Ben.
(1817–1897), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, tourbillon.
(1817–1863), German chronometer maker, Altona, marine chronometer, .
Achille Brocot (1817–1878), French clockmaker, Paris, improvement of the .
(1817–1879), Swiss watchmaker, Ponts-de-Martel, chronometer ebauches, tourbillon.
(1817–1887), Swiss watch producer, Bern, Baume & Mercier.
(1817–1890), English watchmaker, London, marine chronometer
Antoine Redier (1817–1892), French clockmaker, Paris, Wecker, clocks, scientific instruments.
(1817–1897), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, c. 1830 New York, Chinese .
(1818–1867), English watchmaker, London, chronometer.
(1818–1898), American watchmaker, Albany, chronometer, , fine adjustment
(1818–1909), German watchmaker and inventor. machines, free escapement, four stroke motor.
(1819–1872), German clockmaker and entrepreneur, Villingen-Schwenningen. founder of the clock company Bürk.
(1819–1885), German clockmaker from Schlesien, founder of the Gustav Becker clock company.
(1821–1889), French mathematician, Paris, precision adjustment, compensating balance wheels.
(1821–1893), German mechanic and clockmaker, Bernburg, Turmuhren.
Betty Linderoth (1822–1900), Swedish mechanic and clockmaker
Thomas Mercer (1822–1900), English watchmaker, London, chronometer.
(1823–1870), German clockmaker, Schramberg, founder of the Junghans brand.
(1823–1876), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, chronometer.
(1823–1896), Danish watchmaker, Geneva, Urban Jürgensen, chronometer
(1824–1889), French chronometer maker, Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont, chronometer.
Victor Kullberg (1824–1890), Swedish chronometer maker, London, chronometer blanks.
Louis Brandt (1825–1879), Swiss watchmaker and politician, La Chaux-de-Fonds, founder of Omega
(1825–1907), clockmaker of the court, Dresden, creator of the second Five-Minutes-Clock of the Semperoper.
(1826–1885), German clockmaker, Glashütte, marine chronometer, .
(1826–1892), German watchmaker and author, head of the Badischen watchmaking school Furtwangen.
(1827–1886) watchmaker and watch producer, Glashütte, chronometer and .
(1827–1920), Dutch clockmaker, , clock tower maker Royal Eijsbouts.
(1829–1907), German watchmaker, director of the watchmaking school in Le Locle.
(1830–1910), Swiss Watchmaker and politician, Le Locle, co-founder of Tissot.
(1830–1905), English clockmaker, engineer, made the gate clock of the Greenwich Observatory.
(1831–1899), Swiss watchmaker and entrepreneur, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, .
(1832–1908), Swiss watchmaker, Geneva. famous .
(1832–1914), Swiss watchmaker, tourbillon-chronometer.
François Perregaux (1834–1877), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, first watchmaker in Japan.
(1836–1910), Swiss Watchmaker, Le Locle, pioneer of watchmaking in Asia (1863).
Hilda Petrini (1838–1895), first female Swedish watchmaker, Stockholm, chronometer.
(1838–1919), German tinker, Steinmauern, astronomical clock.
Wilhelm Ehrlich (1839–1894), German watchmaker, Bremerhaven, marine chronometer.
(1840–1892), Swiss watchmaker, Biel. Heuer.
(1840–1895), Swiss watchmaker, palladium alloy for hairsprings.
(1841–1900), German clockmaker, Münstermaifelder Turmuhrenfabrik Turmuhrbau.
Florentine Ariosto Jones (1841–1916), American watchmaker and entrepreneur, , founder of IWC.
(1841–1923), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, pioneer of watchmaking in Japan (1863).
(1845–1901), German watchmaker, Glashütte, founder of Glashütter Uhrenfabrik "Union" (1893–1926).
(1845–1932), German watchmaker and entrepreneur, Glashütte, A. Lange & Söhne.
(1845–?), Swiss watchmaker and founder of Ed. Kummer AG.
(1847–1912), German clockmaker, Munich, Riefler .
(1847–1922), American jeweller and watchmaker, Cleveland, railroad chronometer, Hamilton Watch Company.
(1848–1938), French watchmaker and inventor, Paris, automatons, first useful audio recordings.

Joseph "Joe" Koen, founder of Joe Koen & Son Jewelers circa 1883

1850–1900[]

(1856–?)

(1859–1944), Russian watchmaker & jeweler, Born in , immigrated to Austin, Texas. Koen founded Joe Koen & Son Jewelers in 1883 - Texas' oldest independently owned jewelry store.
(c. 1900), Danish chronometer maker
(1851–1931), American clockmaker, , electric slave clock
(1851–1934), German entrepreneur, Villingen-Schwenningen. Württembergische Uhrenfabrik Bürk.
(1852–1920), German clockmaker, Schramberg, founder of Junghans.
(1852–1922), German engineer, watchmaker and teacher, director of the watchmaking school Karlstein a. d. Th. (Austria).
(1852–1919), German clockmaker of the court, inventor and clock collector, Nürnberg.
(1853–1917), German clockmaker, Glashütte, , .
(1854–1921), German watchmaker and editor, Stuttgart/Berlin, German calendar watchmaker.
(1855–1920), Swiss watchmaker and Regleur, Le Locle.
(1855–1923), Austrian chronometer maker, Vienna, .
(1856–1916), American clockmaker, Auburn, New York, mass production, Bundy Manufacturing Company.
(1856–1928), German watchmaker, Glashütte, pocket watch.
(1857–1922), Swedish watch producer, Svängsta, Halda.
(1858–1942), Swiss watchmaker and teacher, longtime director of the watchmaking school in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
(1859–1932), Swiss watchmaker, Biel. Stuhrling.
(1859–1935), Danish watchmaker, London, Carousell.
Léon Breitling (1860–1914), Swiss watchmaker, Saint-Imier, founder of Breitling SA.
Kintarō Hattori (1860–1934), Japanese watchmaker, Tokyo, founder of Seiko.
Hermann Goertz (1862–1944), German clockmaker, Glashütte, .
(1863–1943), German watchmaker, Glashütte.
(?–1933), Swiss watchmaker, Lucerne, founder of Carl F. Bucherer.
(1865–1933), German watchmaker, Glashütte, .
(1865–1949), German clockmaker, Glashütte, .
(1866–1922), German clockmaker, Glashütte, .
Paul Ditisheim (1868–1945), Swiss watchmaker, La Chaux-de-Fonds, pocket watch and marine chronometer.
(1868–1948) German watchmaker, Glashütte, compensating balance wheels for marine chronometer.
(?–1953), Swiss Regleur and chronometer maker, Besançon.
(1869–1928), German watchmaker, Zürich. first wrist watch.
(1870–1935), Swiss watch producer, Berner Jura, director of the Société Horlogère Reconvilier.
Jens Olsen (1872–1945), Danish clockmaker, Ribe, astronomical world clock in Copenhagen.
(1873–1954), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, tourbillon.
Louis Cartier (1875–1942), French watchmaker, Paris, Cartier watch brand.
(um 1880), German watchmaker, Berlin, Flume-Werksucher.
Jules Haag (1882–1953), mathematician, Besançon, Isochronism.
(1882–1958), Swiss watchmaker, Biel, .
William Hamilton Shortt (1882–1971), English clockmaker, London, Shortt clock.
(1883–1953), French watchmaker and jeweller, Besançon, cofounder of the Chronometrical Society of France, Léon Hatot.
(1885–1936), German clockmaker, Glashütte, precision pendulum clocks.
William Baume (1885–1956), Swiss watchmaker, Geneva (Switzerland), founder of Baume & Mercier.
(1886–1983), German and chronometer maker, Glashütte, marine chronometer, .
(1886–1974), German watchmaker, Glashütte, tourbillon.
Louis Zimmer (1888–1970), Belgian clockmaker, Lier, astronomical clock in Lier, Zimmer tower.
(1892–1967), Swiss watchmaker, Geneva. teacher of the .
(1892–1967), Swiss engineer, watch timing machine, Nivarox.
John Harwood (1893–1965), English inventor and clockmaker, automatic wrist watch, Fortis watch brand.
Rasmus Sørnes (1893–1967), Norwegian radio technician and clockmaker, , astronomical clock.
Paul Behrens (1893–1984), German clockmaker, Lübeck, astronomical clock.
Marius Lavet (1894–1980), French clockmaker, Paris, ATO-Uhren, .
(1895–1967), Swiss-trained South African watchmaker, Pretoria, .
(1895–1953), Swiss watchmaker, Bassecourt, .
(1895–1958), German physician, Berlin, engineer of the quartz clock.
(1898–1966), Swiss watchmaker, Schaffhausen, Pellaton winding system for automatic watches.

1900–2000's[]

(1904–1992), German physician, Königsberg. developer of the quartz clock.
(1904–1974), Flemish clockmaker, Sint-Truiden, astronomical clock of Sint-Truiden.
(1904–1990) German clockmaker and collector, Zittau, .
(1905–1958), German watch and chronometer maker, Glashütte, student of .
(1905–1996), French producer of watches and machines, Besançon, Lip.
(1906–1974), German master watchmaker, Hornberg, founder of the Stowa clock company.
(1906–1981), German watchmaker, Wuppertal, founder of .
(1907–1996), American watchmaker, New York, author.
(1907–1996), German watchmaker and author, Hamburg.
(1911–2010), German watchmaker, Nürnberg, student of , tourbillon.
Willy Breitling (1913–1979), Swiss watchmaker, Saint-Imier, President of Breitling SA
(1913–2008), German watchmaker, teacher, founder of the .
(born 1921), Swiss physician, Biel, Bulova Accutron.
(1924–2013), German watchmaker, astronomical clocks.
George Daniels (1926–2011), (C. C.), English watchmaker, Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers., Inventor of the coaxial escapement.
(1929–2009), German watchmaker, Furtwangen. president of the German Society for Timekeeping (1981 to 1999).
(1930–2018), German watchmaker, works for .
Martin Burgess (born 1931), (FBHI), English watchmaker and author, Sculptural Clock, Gurney Clock.
(1932–2015), German engineer and professor of electronics, inventor of the radio clock.
(1933–2010), German art collector, watchmaker, goldsmith and gemologist.
Kurt Klaus (born 1934), Swiss watchmaker, engineer at IWC, perpetual calendar with four digit year indication
(1938–2017), Swiss watchmaker, Roger Dubuis SA.
(1938–2009), English watchmaker, collaboration with .
(born 1938), English watchmaker, engineer of the Double-Axis-Tourbillon.
(born 1940), German watchmaker and author.
(born 1942), (AHCI), Danish watchmaker, cofounder of the (AHCI).
(born 1944), Italian watchmaker from Milan (Italy), cofounder of the Swiss-based luxury brand Hublot Watches.
(born 1944), (AHCI), Italian watchmaker, cofounder of the (AHCI), "Golden Bridge" of Corum, Universal Genève.
Daniel Roth (born 1945), Swiss watchmaker, Daniel Roth SA (with the Bulgari company since 2000).
(born 1946), Swiss watchmaker, general director of and , engineer Mouvement Valjoux 7750.
Philippe Dufour (born 1948), (AHCI), Swiss watchmaker.
(born 1950), (AHCI), Swiss watchmaker, Zürich.
Michel Parmigiani (born 1950), Swiss watchmaker. Parmigiani.
(born 1951), Swiss watchmaker, responsible for R&D at Patek Philippe.
Ludwig Oechslin (born 1952), Italian watch engineer, La Chaux-de-Fonds, former director of the International Museum of Horology.
(born 1954), American born watchmaker at Patek Philippe.
(born 1957), ((AHCI)), Swiss watchmaker, Patek Philippe, Antiquorum, tourbillon.
Franck Muller (born 1958), Swiss watchmaker, Genthod, .
Christophe Claret (born 1962), Swiss watchmaker, .
(born 1964), (AHCI), Swiss watchmaker, , tourbillon.
(born 1965), Swiss watchmaker, former Renaud & Papi SA, today Audemars Piguet.
(born 1966), (AHCI), German watchmaker, Triple-Achs-Tourbillon.
(born 1971), American watchmaker at .
Andreas Strehler (born 1971), (AHCI), Swiss watchmaker, , moon phase, complication (horology).
Johnny Dang (born 1974), Vietnamese American jeweler and watchmaker, based in Houston
Konstantin Chaykin (Konstantin Jurjewitsch Tschaikin) (born 1975), (AHCI), Russian watchmaker, Saint Petersburg, armband- and table clocks with complication.
(born 1968), (AHCI), Ukrainian watchmaker, created first in the world wooden flying tourbillon.
Yoshikazu Akahane (died 1999), Japanese engineer, creator of Seiko's Spring Drive mechanical movement regulated by a quartz oscillator instead of a traditional escapement.
Roberto Bertotti (born 1967), Italian watchmaker, fixing most of the watches, clocks, chronometers, Pendulum clocks, etc. Workshop in Rovereto, Italy.
Masahiro Kikuno (born 1983), (AHCI), Japanese watchmaker, created the first wristwatch with a Japanese clock complication.
(born 1979), independent watchmaker based in Warsaw, Poland.

References[]

^ "Jacques-Frédéric Houriet. A fine, rare and unusual 18K gold half-hunter case quarter repeating lever watch with calendar". Christies.

External links[]

UhrenH@nse: Uhrmacherverzeichnis (in German)
watch-wiki: Kategorie:Biographie (in German)

[1] "Jacques-Frédéric Houriet. A fine, rare and unusual 18K gold half-hunter case quarter repeating lever watch with calendar". Christies.

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