1. Louis Moinet, inventor of the chronograph, was born into a prosperous family of farmers in Bourges, France, was a French horologist, sculptor and painter.
15 Facts About Louis Moinet
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Louis Moinet was privately tutored in drawing by an Italian painter.
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At the age of twenty, Moinet hoped to move to Italy.
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Louis Moinet reestablished contact with his former master watchmaker and, within less than ten years, the master was to find himself in the position of student to Moinet.
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Louis Moinet became President of the Chronometry Society of Paris, and a member of a number of learned and artistic societies.
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When Moinet met Abraham-Louis Breguet, the latter was already quite famous.
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When Breguet died in 1823, Louis Moinet left the house on the Quai de l'Horloge to live elsewhere.
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Louis Moinet invented a counter that, even today, is unequalled.
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In terms of watch making techniques, Louis Moinet was a genius and he improved upon many existing methods.
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Louis Moinet undertook to share his extensive knowledge of watch making and, in 1848, he published the Traite d'Horlogerie.
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Louis Moinet sacrificed everything to art: his time, his fortune and his health.
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Louis Moinet spent most of his life creating, imbuing materials with a life of their own.
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Louis Moinet's clocks are considered works of art as well as fine timepieces and are currently on display in such important Museums as the Louvre in Paris, the Chateau de Versailles, and the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
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Louis Moinet is the author of the celebrated watchmaking encyclopaedia first published in 1848.
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Louis Moinet worked for twenty years on writing this treatise, which became the reference work of the period.