Catalog: Souveraine Collection
Company/Brand: F.P.Journe
who invented the clock in Souveraine Collection by F.P.Journe
at the heart of the movement i will try to explain the ... to build such or such a watch as far as the resonance phenomenon is concerned the ... without being lost goes back to the 18th century and the research performed ... by the great chemist a.l de lavoisier 1743- ... 1794 who stated his famous theory that is behind my modest convictions ... created everything is transformed with the invention of the pendulum watchmakers ... noticed that their beat often interfered with their ... and it was not unusual for a pendulum clock to stop of its own accord when the ... pendulum entered into resonance with the driving-weight suspended from its cords ... engineer as he described himself was the first to have the feeling that one ... two precision escapements and to place them close to each other ensuring that the ...

the constant-force device from ancient ... it into equal fractions and inventing the notion of isochronism only with the ... arrival of the first mechanical clocks did specialists begin to seek a means ... of equalising the force reaching the escapement the balance-spring did not ... yet exist and the so-called foliot balance had an ... irregular beat due to the arrival of a force varying because of ... the imperfections of the gearing at the time clocks were equipped with just one ... a revolution once every 12 hours since their degree of imprecision did not permit ... the measurement of minutes after the invention of the mainspring which would ... enable the construction of table-clocks 15th century watchmaker jobst bürgi had ... the idea of adding an extra gear ...