
Author: Nathan Moore

Pictured: C.A. Paillard’s Palladium Hairspring English Patent #6367. In the late 1870s, after a decade of experimentation, Charles-Auguste Paillard successfully developed a palladium alloy that was immune to corrosion, featured.
Pictured: “Palladium Balance Springs” (Excerpt), The Horological Journal, July 1879. When Charles-Auguste Paillard moved to Geneva in 1862, he dedicated his research to developing a corrosion-immune alloy for hairsprings used.

Pictured: Magnetized Balance and Hairspring As electricity was fervently adopted in the late 1800s to power lighting and other devices, the influence of magnetism on watches became a more significant.
Pictured: Rust on a Steel Hairspring At age seventeen, Charles-Auguste Paillard began an apprenticeship under his uncle to study the repair, service, and adjustment of marine chronometers. Paillard quickly realized.

"Paillard Non-Magnetic Watch Co - Chicago, U.S.A.” Marking on Illinois Watch Movement The Non-Magnetic Watch Company sold watches produced by a variety of watch manufacturers in the United States. Each.
Pictured: Landis Watch Co. “King Landis” (Grade 273) [Image Courtesy of PWDB User theorris] Even though the Landis Watch Company was incorporated in August 1909, production of the “Landis Watch.