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The Encyclopedia of Horology

La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland · 1813 – 1889

Georges-Frédéric Roskopf

Partially verified

Watches

Life & work

Inventor of Roskopf movement.

Training, contributions & innovations

  • Pin-pallet escapement

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

1867 Montre Roskopf
1867 Montre Roskopf — Chardon bleu, CC BY-SA 3.0. 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.