In this video I am discussing a French carriage clock that I recently purchased. I looked all over and cant find any trademarks on the outside of the movement plates. Some put the trademarks on the inside. Maybe in a year or two when I go to service this clock I will find a trademark. Because it is a pinned movement I am guessing it was made between 1890-1910. Could be earlier. The following is a very good data base on French clocks:
antiqwatch.com/old-watch-bran...
The following shows you that the curved arrow is the trademark for Armand Couailet who made clocks between 1890-1925 when they went bankrupt:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_...
The French version shows a lot more information than the English version and the following is what is translated to English from one of my group members: In 1903, Armand Couaillet joined forces with his brothers, Ernest and Henri, and created the “Couaillet Frères” establishments. Henri assists Armand in business and Ernest directs manufacturing. The family business specializes in mantel clocks and travel clocks. It supplies 3 to 4000 pieces per month at the beginning of the 20th century. The workshops then had nearly 150 workers. Following a devastating fire in 1912, the Couaillet Frère company bought the Delépine-Barrois workshops, originally belonging to Honoré Pons.
They manufacture many varieties of travel clocks, mechanical parts for armament (rocket shells), telegraphs and develop an electric car, the “electric car”2. which will be manufactured and sold in a few dozen copies without much success.
After the First World War, he bought the "La magicienne" factory in Saint-Ouen to produce aviation parts.
Couaillet company stamp, flared arrow
Following a second fire in 1932, Armand Couaillet, with a few employees, reassembled a workshop, “Watchmaking mechanics”, on the site of the stables of Château Le Bréjal, his property. He manufactures new movements there: a timer, a SONNFOR alarm clock, the SONOCTO or 24-hour alarm clock which rings at the same time every day. Unable to pay the annuities to Industrial Property, these patents fall into the public domain.
His sons, grandsons and then great-grandsons continued the business under the name Couaillet-Maruanne-Quesnel from 1955 and in 2011 under the name Couaillet Usinage in the town of Rouxmesnil, near Dieppe.
The historical collections of travel clocks, marine cockpits and telegraphs are kept at the Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont Watchmaking Museum.
5 июл 2023
