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The Encyclopedia of Horology

Paris, France · 1794 – 1867

Armand-François Collin

Partially verified

Turret clocks

Life & work

Specialist in tower clocks.

Training, contributions & innovations

  • Turret clock expert

Inventions & patents

  • N/A

Signatures & markings on surviving work

  • Signed work

Collecting significance

Signatures on historic work were applied by retailers and by later hands; attribution should rest on the movement's construction and provenance.

Related photographs

TurretClock GrossheubachCollection Nees
TurretClock GrossheubachCollection Nees — KaiBorgeest, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons file page

No confidently matched photograph of this subject has been found yet. These photographs show a closely related record, and are not examples of the type described on this page.

Sources & references

  1. Britten, F. J., Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers
  2. Loomes, B., reference works on British and European clockmakers

Where sources disagree, the disagreement is stated rather than resolved silently.