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.

Keith Piggott
A Royal Haagse Klok' by Severijn Oosterwijck
(under construction)

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

Reinier Plomp.
The earliest Dutch and French pendulum clocks.

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 complètes.

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.

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.

Write ups.

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General history continued:

Kiefer *
Schwarzwälder Uhren-Geschichte.

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

Ingrid Hielle *
Time measurement, a brief history.

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 Académie Royale.

Magazines & further reading

Korte inleiding antieke klokken en horloges. *

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)

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.

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.

Geoffroy Ader *
Official Sports Timekeepers in the Watch Industry.

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

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.

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

Elgin watches history.

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

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

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Watches continued:

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

Robert Loomes *
Dating painted dial grandfather clocks.

Vacheron & Constantin *
A Chronology.

Geoffroy Ader *
The advertising saga of the watch industry.

Culture de la haute horlogerie.*
Montres-bracelets et bracelets-montres joailliers du XIXe siècle.

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.

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 *
Baromètre, 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.

Mark Headrick *
Clock and Watch escapement mechanics.

David M. MacMillan *
Transcription of:
Harrison M. Frodsham's
"Some Material for a Résumé 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 über den Bergischen Uhrmacher Johann Peter Peddinghaus senior.

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

Heroes of horology *
Many portraits of historical horologists.

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.

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.



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