Antoine Thiout
Illustration — Antoine Thiout engraving in Traité de l'horlogerie mechanique et pratique, 1741. • Illustration — Detail of a pocket watch mechanism. Thiout the elder (Paris, 1692–1767) was a French clockmaker. He wrote Traité de l'horlogerie mechanique et pratique (Paris, 1741), a treatise on clockmaking which was widely read in his time.
Also recorded as Antoine Thiout l'aîné · Antoine Thiout the elder
Antoine Thiout
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- Born
- 1692
- Died
- 1767
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- clockmaker · watchmaker
- Languages
- French
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His plates describe clock and watch mechanisms which were often used in 18th century timepieces: for example a verge escapement powered by a spring encased in a barrel, and a regulation based on a cone-shaped fusee.
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Antoine Thiout lived from 16 July 1692 to 10 June 1767 and was a clockmaker. The birth of Antoine Thiout is recorded on 16 July 1692 in Jonvelle (Haute-Saône), and the death on 10 June 1767 in Paris.
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1692
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Traité de l'horlogerie, méchanique et pratique, approuvé par l'Academie royale des sciences
1741 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
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