Robert Robin
1742 - 1799
Robert Robin
French clockmaker.
Clockmaker to Louis XV, Louis XVI, the Queen and, in 1795, the Republic.
One of the first French clockmakers to use the anchor escapement.
Key dates
1793
Invented a combined anchor-spring escapement, difficult to make at the time.
Revisited by Audemars Piguet watchmakers, in 2006, it produced a new direct impulse escapement which competes with the Swiss anchor escapement that has dominated for the past two centuries.