History
Century
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
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XVIII
- Abraham Louis Perrelet
- Abraham-Louis Breguet
- Antide Janvier
- Edward John Dent
- Ferdinand Berthoud
- Frédéric Japy
- Frédéric Louis Favre-Bulle
- Henri Louis Jaquet-Droz
- J. Louis Benjamin Audemars
- Jacques Frédéric Houriet
- James Cox
- Jean André Lepaute
- Jean Antoine Lépine
- Jean François Bautte
- Jean Frédéric Leschot
- Jean Moïse Pouzait
- Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué
- John Arnold
- John Ellicot
- Joseph-Thaddeus Winnerl
- Josiah Emery
- Louis Antoine Breguet
- Louis Moinet
- Louis-Frédéric Perrelet
- Pierre Augustin Caron dit Beaumarchais
- Pierre Frédéric Ingold
- Pierre Jaquet-Droz
- Pierre Le Roy
- Pierre-Louis Berthoud
- Robert Robin
- Thomas Earnshaw
- Thomas Mudge
- Urban Jürgensen
- William James Frodsham
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XIX
- Aaron L. Dennison
- Achille Brocot
- Antoine Le Coultre
- Antoine Léchaud
- Auguste Lucien Vérité
- Charles Fasoldt
- Charles Frodsham
- Charles-Edouard Guillaume
- Constant Girard
- Edmond Jaeger
- Edouard Koehn Sr
- Edward Howard
- Ferdinand Adolph Lange
- Georges Frédéric Roskopf
- Georges-Auguste Leschot
- Hans Wilsdorf
- Henri Grandjean
- Henri Lepaute
- Henri Robert Ekegren
- Jean Celamis Lutz
- Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
- Jean-Adrien Philippe
- John Harwood
- Jules Jürgensen
- Julien-Hilaire Rodanet
- Karl Moritz Grossmann
- Louis Leroy
- Louis Richard
- Louis-Clément Breguet
- Lyman W. Tompson
- Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec
- Sylvain Mairet
- Ulysse Nardin
- Victor Kullberg
Antoine Le Coultre
1803-1881
Swiss clockmaker.
1826-27
Invented a pinion-cutting machine.
1833
Foundation of the first Jaeger-LeCoultre Manufacture workshop.
1844
Invented the Millionometer (instrument to measure the micron).
1847
Invention of the swing winder, one of the first reliable systems to wind a watch and set it without having to use a key.
1870
The first mechanically-made repetition calibres and chronograph.
1870
Invented a new winding mechanism.
1870s
Charles Antoine Le Coultre gradually retired. His three sons took over the factory with Edmond Jaeger at the start. His grandson, Jacques-David LeCoultre, formed a partnership with the French watchmaker in 1903.
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