Marine Chronometers

Private Label Trade Names on American Pocket Watches: The Non-Magnetic Watch Company: Part 18: Commercialization of Paillard’s Palladium Hairspring

By Nathan Moore

In Patents & Innovations

Pictured: Advertisement by R. Haswell and Sons for Paillard’s Palladium Balance Springs, The Horological Journal, July 1883 Charles-Auguste Paillard originally developed palladium alloys for use in fine marine chronometers due to the non-corrosive properties of the alloy. Despite Paillard’s palladium balance spring being introduced to...

Patents & Innovations

Private Label Trade Names on American Pocket Watches: The Non-Magnetic Watch Company: Part 3: The Oxidation Problem

By Nathan Moore

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.