Patent Model for the Improvement in Stem-winding Watches
date: label: date made
content: 1879
label: patent date
content: 1879-10-07
name: label: licensee
content: Gontard, P. H.
label: inventor
content: Gontard, Pauline H.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Timekeeping
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Measuring & Mapping
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content: Invention and the Patent Model
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content: Patent Models
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.309088
label: catalog number
content: 309088
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 220,233
objectType: label: Object Name
content: watch, part of
label: Object Name
content: watch part
label: Object Name
content: patent model, watch part
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: watch, part of; Mechanical, Spring-Driven; Pocket Watch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: 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