Beschreibung:

A WATCHMAKER’S ARCHIVE, comprising designs for watch and clock mechanisms, [Paris, c.1869-c.1924]. Including design drawings, mostly in multiple, often with written specifications, for mechanisms including: watch chimes, perpetual motion, remontoire , alarm clock, metronome, platines (the plates that bear the movement parts of a watch) and many others, along with some designs for clocks (pendulums, figures for a clockface). In French, c.140 items in total : the designs almost exclusively on re-used pieces of paper of all sizes and in one notebook ( 30 pages, 131 x 95mm) . Card covers, titled ‘Watchmaking Notes/ Geneva 1825’. 19th-century ex-libris of Léon Leroy; inscribed on flyleaf ‘Louis Ferriere 1825’. Slip folder.
A WATCHMAKER’S ARCHIVE, comprising designs for watch and clock mechanisms, [Paris, c.1869-c.1924]. Including design drawings, mostly in multiple, often with written specifications, for mechanisms including: watch chimes, perpetual motion, remontoire , alarm clock, metronome, platines (the plates that bear the movement parts of a watch) and many others, along with some designs for clocks (pendulums, figures for a clockface). In French, c.140 items in total : the designs almost exclusively on re-used pieces of paper of all sizes and in one notebook ( 30 pages, 131 x 95mm) . Card covers, titled ‘Watchmaking Notes/ Geneva 1825’. 19th-century ex-libris of Léon Leroy; inscribed on flyleaf ‘Louis Ferriere 1825’. Slip folder. An extensive collection of intricate designs – compiled by an horologist identifiable as one Benjamin Dentan of Paris – which offers an insight into the inner workings of French watchmaking at the turn of the 20th century.