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The Encyclopedia of Horology

Geneva, Denmark and Switzerland · born 1942

Svend Andersen

Partially verified

Independent watchmaking

Life & work

Co-founder of the AHCI; known as the 'watchmaker of the impossible'.

Training, contributions & innovations

  • World-time complications and automata

Inventions & patents

  • Patents for world-time mechanisms

Signatures & markings on surviving work

  • Andersen Genève

Collecting significance

Authenticity depends on signatures and movement quality. For 19th-century makers, serial numbers often allow for precise dating. For modern independents, documentation from the maker is key.

Related photographs

4 Clocks: Carriage Clock, World Time, & Tide.
4 Clocks: Carriage Clock, World Time, & Tide. — Invaluable auction archive, Auction archive photograph, rights review pending. Invaluable sold-lot record
WORLD TIME LIGHTHOUSE CLOCK Doll, Germany ...
WORLD TIME LIGHTHOUSE CLOCK Doll, Germany ... — Invaluable auction archive, Auction archive photograph, rights review pending. Invaluable sold-lot record

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., The Early Clockmakers of Great Britain
  3. Ehrhardt, R., American Pocket Watch Identification and Price Guide
  4. Museum catalogue records

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