Object Details
- licensee
- Gontard, P. H.
- inventor
- Gontard, Pauline H.
- Description (Brief)
- Pauline Hortense Gontard, of Cortébert, Switzerland, submitted this brass model with her patent application for an improvement in the winding mechanism in a stem winding watch or keyless watch. By the time, she applied for the patent in the United States in 1879, American watchmakers were mass producing watches and competing with European watch makers.
- Stem winding watches were invented by a French clock maker in 1842 and patented in Europe in 1845. Before this time a key was necessary to wind a watch mechanism.
- 1879
- patent date
- 1879-10-07
- ID Number
- ME.309088
- catalog number
- 309088
- accession number
- 89797
- patent number
- 220,233
- Object Name
- watch, part of
- watch part
- patent model, watch part
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Other Terms
- watch, part of; Mechanical, Spring-Driven; Pocket Watch
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 3/4 in x 2 1/8 in x 1/2 in; 6.985 cm x 5.3975 cm x 1.27 cm
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mechanisms
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Measuring & Mapping
- Invention and the Patent Model
- Patent Models
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Timekeeping
- Record ID
- nmah_852282
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-a85f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
