Perrot tower clocks and bell systems
| Perrot tower clocks and chimes GmbH & Co. KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1860 |
| Seat | Calw , Germany |
| management | Christoph Heinrich Perrot, Johannes Immanuel Perrot and Andreas Michael Perrot |
| Number of employees | 30 (2010) |
| Branch | Clock and bell construction |
| Website | www.perrot-turmuhren.de |
The Perrot tower clocks and chimes is a company from Calw in Baden-Württemberg , Germany .
history
The company was founded in Calw in 1860 and was in the fifth generation in 2020. The family originally came from France . They belonged to a group of Waldensians that Duke Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg accepted from 1699, which made new professions such as silk weaver , wigmaker , hat maker and perfumery dealer and watchmaker spread in the duchy . Among others, Hermann Hesse completed a 15-month internship at the company, starting in June 1894.
In 1993 Heinrich I. Perrot handed the company over to three of his four sons. The manufacture of clocks and bell systems in the company includes design, development, construction, mechanical production, metalworking and blacksmithing, electronics and electrics and the paint shop. Among other things, Perrot made the largest tower clock in the world on the central skyscraper of the Abraj Al Bait Towers , the so-called Mecca Royal Clock Tower Hotel , in Mecca Saudi Arabia . In 1999 the tower clock factory Bernhard Zachariä from Leipzig was taken over.
Products
- Tower clocks
- Bell systems
- Bell systems
- Carillon
- Special watches
- Tower adornment
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Insight into "The Enterprise of Time". In: Black Forest Messenger. June 5, 2015, accessed January 18, 2020 .
- ^ Syed Faisal Ali: Makkah Time a new alternative for GMT. In: Arab News. August 11, 2010, accessed on January 18, 2020 (eng).