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Jean André Lepaute

Jean André Lepaute

1720-1787 or 89
French clockmaker.
Watchmaker to the King.
Worked in Paris between 1748 and 1774.

1753
Invented the virgule escapement (evolution of the cylinder escapement).
Concomitance with the invention by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (double virgule escapement).

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