Serial Number: WW0814
Subcategory: Wrist Watch
Status: Display
Description:
Jaquet - Girard watch
Geneve
Automatic movement with date calendar
17 Jewels
Swiss Made
Antimagnetic
Water Resistant
Stainless Steel Back
Incabloc
Sr. No. 14675
Jaquet Girard quality watch is only a limited number produced, due to a three hundred years old watchmaker experience that alone may be the Switzerland Stoz. Famous names indicate the Swiss watch industry, the watches carry two such names, which are among the most important, the famous Jean Richard, founder of the Swiss watch industry in relation to movements in 1744 by a certain Gaquet (Jaquet), who established in Geneva filing. In the following decades, the Jaquet let down as manufacturers watchmaker s tools and watch the Jura Neuchâtel and in St. Imier. Recalls his particular genius to Pierre Jaquet-Doz (1721-1790), both because of his clocks and his machine achieved a worldwide reputation. From 1766 include the Girard to the watchmakers, both in France and in Switzerland, often specializing in rough movements, such as Joseph Girard (1852) in Grenchen or Erwin Girard (1877) in Moutier. Erwin Girard developed early in this century, the first battery-powered plants with escapement. After his death, they led his sons continued the business, and one of them, Jean Girard is one of the directors of Jaquet Girard, Geneva.
