History
Century
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
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XVIII
- Abraham Louis Perrelet
- Abraham-Louis Breguet
- Antide Janvier
- Edward John Dent
- Ferdinand Berthoud
- Frédéric Japy
- Frédéric Louis Favre-Bulle
- Henri Louis Jaquet-Droz
- J. Louis Benjamin Audemars
- Jacques Frédéric Houriet
- James Cox
- Jean André Lepaute
- Jean Antoine Lépine
- Jean François Bautte
- Jean Frédéric Leschot
- Jean Moïse Pouzait
- Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué
- John Arnold
- John Ellicot
- Joseph-Thaddeus Winnerl
- Josiah Emery
- Louis Antoine Breguet
- Louis Moinet
- Louis-Frédéric Perrelet
- Pierre Augustin Caron dit Beaumarchais
- Pierre Frédéric Ingold
- Pierre Jaquet-Droz
- Pierre Le Roy
- Pierre-Louis Berthoud
- Robert Robin
- Thomas Earnshaw
- Thomas Mudge
- Urban Jürgensen
- William James Frodsham
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XIX
- Aaron L. Dennison
- Achille Brocot
- Antoine Le Coultre
- Antoine Léchaud
- Auguste Lucien Vérité
- Charles Fasoldt
- Charles Frodsham
- Charles-Edouard Guillaume
- Constant Girard
- Edmond Jaeger
- Edouard Koehn Sr
- Edward Howard
- Ferdinand Adolph Lange
- Georges Frédéric Roskopf
- Georges-Auguste Leschot
- Hans Wilsdorf
- Henri Grandjean
- Henri Lepaute
- Henri Robert Ekegren
- Jean Celamis Lutz
- Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
- Jean-Adrien Philippe
- John Harwood
- Jules Jürgensen
- Julien-Hilaire Rodanet
- Karl Moritz Grossmann
- Louis Leroy
- Louis Richard
- Louis-Clément Breguet
- Lyman W. Tompson
- Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec
- Sylvain Mairet
- Ulysse Nardin
- Victor Kullberg
Jacques Frédéric Houriet
1743-1830
Swiss clockmaker and chronometer maker.
Served his apprenticeship with his uncle, Abraham Gagnebin, then was apprenticed to Abraham Louis Perret-Jeanneret, master watchmaker in Le Locle, under the terms of a notarial letter of apprenticeship dated March 20th, 1761.
Worked in Paris for Jean and Pierre Le Roy, Romilly, Ferdinand Berthoud.
Became friends with Abraham Louis Breguet and Antide Janvier.
Then moved to Le Locle.
Brother-in-law of Frédéric Louis Favre-Bulle.
1814
Invented the spherical spiral.
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