LOUIS GEORGE (watches)
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LOUIS GEORGE is a German watch brand based at BerlinBerlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Germany
Germany
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. For the article about the watchmaker click here.
Louis George
For the watch brand, see LOUIS GEORGE .Louis George was a Prussian master watchmaker of the late baroque era.Louis George was a descendant of French Huguenots living in Berlin in the third generation. Louis George produced mainly daedal watches...
The brand name refers to the Berlin master watchmaker Louis George
Louis George
For the watch brand, see LOUIS GEORGE .Louis George was a Prussian master watchmaker of the late baroque era.Louis George was a descendant of French Huguenots living in Berlin in the third generation. Louis George produced mainly daedal watches...
who became the 'watchmaker to King' Frederick the Great of Prussia
Prussia
Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...
on the 26th December 1769.
Louis George
Louis George
For the watch brand, see LOUIS GEORGE .Louis George was a Prussian master watchmaker of the late baroque era.Louis George was a descendant of French Huguenots living in Berlin in the third generation. Louis George produced mainly daedal watches...
provided clocks, watches and instruments to 3 generations of kings of Prussia and other sovereigns all over Europe including France. He had business relations to Swiss watchmakers like Pierre Jaquet-Droz
Pierre Jaquet-Droz
Pierre Jaquet-Droz was a Swiss-born watchmaker of the late eighteenth century. He lived in Paris, London, and Geneva, where he designed and built animated dolls, or automata, to help his firm sell watches and mechanical birds....
and Jean-Frederick Leschot.
At the end of the 18th century Berlin was considered a watch making hub - mostly for organ or flute clocks with complicated music works attached released by the clock movement itself. The Louis George workshops of the Baroque era produced further more odometer or watches with complications, i.e. dead seconds watches with Pouzait escapement and early chronometer.
The brand was re-established in 2009 at Berlin, Germany.
Modern Watch Models
Modern LOUIS GEORGE watches are genuine luxurious wristwatches made from precious metals only. Nearly all the applied crafts and techniques are more or less can be called antique techniques - like fire enamelingVitreous enamel
Vitreous enamel, also porcelain enamel in U.S. English, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C...
, original guilloche
Guilloché
Guilloché is a decorative engraving technique in which a very precise intricate repetitive pattern or design is mechanically engraved into an underlying material with fine detail...
engraving or manual master engraving, manual gem setting. A group of several specialists provides the necessary services.
Louis George watches are aiming for classiness. The philosophy of the brand is blending luxury and a timeless design in order to create watches that can passed on from one generation to another.
Some models will be limited to 25 watches only.
Horloger Du Roi
"Hologer Du Roi" means watchmaker to the King. The term is held in French language since French was spoken at the Berlin royal court to imitate the French royal court. Many local Berlin expressionsBerlinerisch
Berlinerisch, Berlinisch, or Berliner Schnauze is a dialect of Berlin Brandenburgish spoken in Berlin. It originates from a Mark Brandenburgish variant...
date back to that time of the late Baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
era.
Watch Models
LOUIS GEORGE is producing mechanical watches only. The Réference 8945 Gravure limitée and the Référence 8954 Demi-Squelette run on ennobled large cliber handwinding Swiss movements. The announced Référence 8963 Grand Automatic will contain a double barrel movement.External links – History
- Berlin address calendar of 1799 at the Historische Sammlungen of the Zentral und Landesbibliothek Berlin, Breite Str.36, 10178 Berlin, Germany
- Berlin address calendar of 1801 at the Historische Sammlungen of the Zentral und Landesbibliothek Berlin, Breite Str.36, 10178 Berlin, Germany
- Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein, Berlin - Berlin history web portal, registered association
More External links
- Historical Louis Georges Dead Seconds Watch at the 13th Journée d’Etude of the Société Suisse de Chronométrie
- Brand listing at Brands of the World
- LOUIS GEORGE website