HISTORY Perrelet, inventor of the automatic movement. With its rich, prestigious heritage, Perrelet perpetuates its know-how through the ages. Abraham-Louis Perrelet develops the first pedometer and also becomes the first to make with escapements and of the duplex, date and equation of time type. He further improves the going train and improves the pinions, wheels, the escapement and his unique winding mechanism. His growing interest in the fields of astronomy, physics and science lead Louis- Frédéric Perrelet to design so-called “scholarly” clocks. An astronomical clock developed in 1815 and presented at the World’s Fair in Paris in 1823 sets the seal on his status as watchmaker-engineer to three kings of France. 1729 1780 1823 1777 1781 1827 From the 1770s onwards, he begins trying to develop a system that can pick up an initial impulse and keep it running indefinitely. In 1777 he gives concrete shape to a totally revolutionary invention: the automatic movement. To date, no better way has ever been found of giving life to mechanical calibers and his invention is still making its mark on watchmaking history. Birth of Louis-Frédéric Perrelet who has inherited his grandfather’s horological genius. Displaying a clear-cut predisposition for mechanics and mathematics, he is trained by his grandfather before settling in Paris and studying in the Breguet workshops. His talents enable him to rapidly distinguish himself as an independent horologist. On the occasion of the French Industrial Exposition, he presented an exceptional split-second physics and astronomy counter. This model, for which he was granted an official patent in March 1828, earned him a medal from the French Academy of Science in 1830. Birth of Abraham-Louis Perrelet in the tow of Le Locle in the Neuchâtel mountain region of Switzerland. Passionately interested in watchmaking skills, he devotes himself from his adolescence onward to building a certain number of precision instruments. His impressive mastery of his art, his acknowledged competence and his creative genius are to make him one of the greatest ever exponents of the art of horology. 4 | TRADE CATALOGUE 2014 - 2015
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