Patent Model - Improvement in Watches
Object Detail
Maker and Role
Eugene Pacaud (Swiss), Patentee
Florentine Jones (b.1841, d.1916), Assignee
Florentine Jones (b.1841, d.1916), Assignee
Date
Oct 11 1875
Place
Object Type
Media
Iron, metal
Dimensions
2 1/2 x 1 3/4" (6.4 x 4.4cm)
Description
Pacaud's patent "relates to certain new and useful improvements in stem-winding and stem-setting watches, having for their principle object the simplifying and perfecting of the mechanism by which the 'Breguet ratchet' of stem-winding watches is shifted to allow the setting of the hands." His invention consists "mainly, in the means employed on the spring-arm of the Breguet ratchet to the watch-case..." (Patent Number 168,774)
Collection
Rothschild Patent Model Collection
Object No
2015.14.2039a,b
Currently on Display
No