Auguste-Lucien Vérité
Auguste-Lucien Vérité (born October 21, 1806 in Beauvais , † July 19, 1887 ) was a French watchmaker .
Life and watchmaking achievement
As the son of a woodcarver , Vérité became interested in performing geometry and all kinds of mechanisms early on. As a young watchmaker, he designed a new type of escapement in 1824 , and four years later he opened a shop for clocks and optical devices in Beauvais. As an autodidact, he designed and constructed high-quality regulators and electric pendulum clocks, with which he won various awards. In 1850 he opened a watch factory.
At the world exhibition in Paris in 1855 , he won with his watches a. a. a first class medal and with this success became known in Europe. From 1856 he worked and researched together with M. Lucas for several years and conducted a lively correspondence with specialist colleagues, which has been lost. He worked in his factory until 1880, which was closed five years after he left.
Vérité made great contributions to research into the synchronization of pendulum clocks. He created a system to synchronize all clocks at the Gare du Nord station in Paris and in 1864 he received a patent for a slave clock .
His masterpiece is the 90,000-piece astronomical clock in Beauvais Cathedral (1865–1868) with 68 automatons and 52 dials. He also created the Besançon astronomical clock .
In addition to his watchmaking interests, Vérité was an engineer at the French railway company Chemin de Fer du Nord, responsible for the maintenance of the railway signal system and the station clocks of the entire railway network of the northern railways and had made a name for himself as an expert in organ building . In 1855 he built a meteorological station for the Société Académique de l'Oise , which he equipped with instruments he designed himself.
Vérité was a holder of the Legion of Honor . In addition, he had the titles “Horloger du Roi” and “Engineer Civil”, but their origin is unclear because there is evidence that he did not attend college.
Watchmaking inventions
- Single-ball escapement (1838)
- Double Escapement (1844)
- Electric ball escapement (1853)
- Free escapement with gravity release (1865)
Great clocks
- Clock of the Hôtel Dieu in Beauvais (1832)
- Clock in the Museum of Beauvais (1844), formerly in the Palace of Justice
- Clock and carillon in the main church of Bonsecours
- Frocourt Castle Astronomical Clock (1855)
- Besançon Cathedral Astronomical Clock (1860)
- Beauvais Cathedral Astronomical Clock (1865–1868)
literature
- Bernard Miclet: "Un horloger du XIXe siècle: Auguste Lucien Vérité" (not viewed)
- Auguste-Lucien Vérité: "Description de l'horloge monumentale de la cathédrale de Beauvais conçue et exécutée par M. AL Vérité, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, civil engineer à Beauvais" , Amiens, 1876, Caron (not viewed)
- Ianik Goux and Catherine Martin: "The Astronomical Clock of Beauvais Cathedral" . Paris, 1991, Editions La Goélette ISBN 2-909880-20-5 , was probably assigned: ISBN 2-906880-20-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Bernard Miclet: A clockmaker of the XIX. Century. Auguste-Lucien Vérité (1806-1887) . Part 1 in: Old clocks. [...] , Callwey Munich, 1978. pp. 150ff
- ↑ Bernard Miclet: A clockmaker of the XIX. Century. Auguste-Lucien Vérité (1806-1887) . Part 2 in: Old Clocks. [...] , Callwey Munich, 1978. pp. 254ff
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vérité, Auguste-Lucien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French watchmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beauvais , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1887 |