====== LeCoultre, Charles Antoine ======
{{wst>image_r|LeCoultre,_Charles_Antoine|Charles Antoine LeCoultre (1803-1881)}}
**Charles Antoine LeCoultre** was a Swiss watchmaker and co-founder of [[Jaeger-LeCoultre]].

Charles-Antoine LeCoultre was born on 16 April [[1803]], the son of a Huguenot family who came to the [[Vallée de Joux]] in the middle of the 16th century. From his father he learned the craft of the cutler, in whose workshop one also focused on the refining of steel for watches.

LeCoultre learned the craft of watchmaking self-taught. [[1833]], together with his brother [[LeCoultre, François Ulysse|François Ulysse LeCoultre]] he became self-employed and founded the watch factory [[LeCoultre & Co.]] in [[Le Sentier]] in the [[Vallée de Joux]], which later became the famous [[manufacture]] [[Jaeger-LeCoultre]]. One first began with the preparation of [[gear]]s and [[pinion]]s, later complete [[ebauche movement]]s were produced.

  LeCoultre developed both industrial machines as well as precision instruments, such as, in [[1844]], the [[Millionometer]], in [[1847]] the Baseul winding and twenty years later a [[calibre]], which he called himself "[[remontoir a vue]]".

Charles-Antoine LeCoultre died on April 26, [[1881]].

===== Literature =====
  *[[Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World]]; Author Baillie, G. H.; ISBN 140679113X
  * [[Das ZEITGEFÜHL-Uhrenbuch]]; Author [[Gerd-Lothar Reschke]]; ISBN 3-938607-61-0


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