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Pictured: C.A. Paillard’s Palladium Compensation Balance U.S. Patent #359093. In addition to seeking patents in Europe, Charles-Auguste Paillard submitted patent applications in the United States to protect the use of.
Pictured: C.A. Paillard’s Palladium Balance Abstract of English Patent #8730. While the most delicate part of a watch to be significantly affected by magnetism and corrosion is the hairspring, the.
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: 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.