Albert Pellaton

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Albert Pellaton (* 1898 ; † 1966 ) was a Swiss watchmaker and inventor .

Life

Albert Pellaton came from a watchmaking family and was the grandson of the watchmaker of the same name, who specializes in tourbillons , Albert Pellaton-Favre (1832–1914) and nephew of James Pellaton (1873–1954, director of the Technicum watchmaking school in Le Locle ).

Albert Pellaton was employed by Vacheron Constantin after completing his apprenticeship as a watchmaker and then became a watchmaker there . After the dissolution of the design department due to the merger of Vacheron Constantin with Jaeger-LeCoultre , he left the company in 1944 and became technical director at IWC , which he remained until 1966. At IWC in 1946 he developed the Pellaton winding system for mechanical wristwatches with a modified ratchet mechanism for double-sided winding of automatic wristwatches . The mechanism was patented in 1950. This enabled a power reserve of up to seven days to be achieved.

The development of caliber 89 with central seconds followed in 1946 , in 1948 the pilot's watch Mark 11 with an inner casing made of soft iron for magnetic shielding, in 1950 the first IWC caliber (caliber 85) with automatic winding, in 1954 the IWC Ingenieur , in 1959 the caliber 44 for Ladies watches. After his death, Kurt Klaus was his successor, the inventor of the perpetual calendar with a four-digit year display for wristwatches.

literature

  • Jörg M. Mehltretter: Wristwatch Special: IWC - History, Design, Technology. ISBN 3898800458 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Daniels : Watchmaking . Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-85667-704-5 , p. 302.
  2. ^ Tourbillon International: Grand Complications. Volume 3 of the Grand Complications Series. Edition 3. Rizzoli International, 2007, ISBN 9780847829408 , p. 53.
personal data
SURNAME Pellaton, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss watchmaker and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH 1898
DATE OF DEATH 1966