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

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Clocks.
General History and Science.
Instruments.
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Technical aspects.
Watches.

General history and science.

Ben Hordijk, Rob Memel.
Salomon Coster the clockmaker of Christiaan Huygens. The production and development of the first pendulum clocks in the period 1657 – September 1658.

Mart van Duijn. Ben Hordijk. Rob Memel. Jef Schaeps.
Scrutinizing Huygens's Figura drawing.

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

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

Richard de Grijs.
European longitude prizes II Astronomy, religion and engineering solutions in the Dutch Republic.

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.

Christiaan Huygens
Horologium 1658.

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.

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

Diagram on English horology 1657-1750.

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.

Digitized books *
by Richard Watkins.

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General history continued:

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

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

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.

Decimal time list.

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

Roman numerals on clock dials.

Clocks.

Sunny Dzik.
Engraving on English table clocks.

English table clocks.
English table clock images.

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

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

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

Prof. C. A. Grimbergen.
Nu Elck Syn Sin. Zaans Clocks from the17^th and 18^th Century.

Jean Jacques Richard*
Pendules Mysterieuses de Grollier de Servières à Cartier en passant par Robert Houdin et tous les autres.

Martin Ridout *
Electric Horology .

Watches.

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

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.

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

Longines History *

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.

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.

Genevieve Cummins.
The wearing of pocket watches.

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.

Instruments.symbols

J. Kugel *
Spheres the art of celestial mechanic.

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.

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.

Victor Kersing.
A foretaste of his publication on clockmakers in The Hague from the 16th to the 18th century on haegschetijd.nl

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

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.

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

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.

Elodie Desserle.
Jean-Simon Deverberie un horloger de son temps. Au bon sauvage.

Jean Simon Deverberie
Designer Bronzier Horloger á Paris.

Bibliotheque Numerique.
Modèles de pendules de Deverberie.

Jens Olsens astronomical clock.*

Black Forrest Clocks & History*

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