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The Encyclopedia of Horology

Geneva, Switzerland · 1743 – 1793

Jean-Moïse Pouzait

Partially verified

Escapements

Life & work

Inventor of lever-type escapement.

Training, contributions & innovations

  • Escapements

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

Chinese movement escapement and jewels
Chinese movement escapement and jewels — Hustvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0. Wikimedia Commons file page
Lever of a Watch Lever Escapement
Lever of a Watch Lever Escapement — Micky Aldridge from Finland, CC BY 2.0. 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.