Pocket Watch Blog
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The first digital pocket watch
In the 1920s, digital Pocket watches made their appearance, marking the hours and minutes by means of digits engraved on white paste disks, visible…
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The religious influence in watchmaking - Pocket watch
The political and religious influence that prevailed in Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century is no stranger to the heyday of the…
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LOUIS BREGUET, THE BRILLIANT WATCHMAKER
Louis Bréguet was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland in 1747. At the age of 15, he left for Paris where he studied various disciplines, mathematics,…
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Napoleon's Pocket Watch
The Gold Pocket watch by Frenchman Boussot de Villeneuve, which belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte until his death in Santa Elena, was "inherited" by his…
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Why buy a steampunk pocket watch ?
Can you imagine for a moment a pure steamer taking out his smartphone or consulting his connected watch on his wrist ⌚ to know…
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Lépine: the watchmaker who refined the Pocket watch
Jean Antoine Lépine entered at the age of 18 to work (in the year 1744), with the Court Watchmaker Charles Caron. In 1756, he…
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Pierre Le Roy Pocket Watch
Pierre Le Roy, the eldest son of Julien Le Roy, as important or more important than his father, was the teacher of Ferdinand Berthou,…
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Carillo Pocket Clocks
We know for sure that the first Pocket watches appeared in England in the year 1685. What is less clear is who was the…
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The Universal Pocket Watch of Perret Berthoud
In 1897, George Perret and Louis Berthoud founded the PERRET & BERTHOUD company in the Swiss town of Le Locle, which specialized in sound…
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Marie Antoinette Pocket Watch
The Empress of France commissioned her favorite watchmaker, BREGUET, to make a watch capable of retaining all the most advanced horological knowledge of the…