Companies

Arnold & Lewis name on a clock

Arnold & Lewis (trading 1870-1938)

Despite describing themselves as 'watch and clock manufacturers', the Manchester firm of Arnold & Lewis seem to have been primarily[...]

ATO trademark on the front of an electric mantel clock

ATO

French clockmaking company founded (and partly named for) Léon Hatot in 1920. Specialists in battery powered clocks.

Beasley Gamewell logo on a bell

Beasley Gamewell Fire Alarm Company

American company manufacturing telegraph fire alarms from the middle of the nineteenth century; later also active in London.

David Perret (trading c.1900-1908)

Etalon

Clock company researching and producing precision timekeepers in Soviet Russia during the early to middle twentieth century.

Eureka Clock Company

Clock company founded in 1908 to bring to market the Eureka electric clocks designed by American engineer Timothy Bernard Powers.[...]

FAVAG

Swiss clockmaking company originally headed by Albert Favarger, and successor to the company founded by MatthÓ“us Hipp.

Gent name on the dial of a clock

Gent (trading c.1872-1981)

Originally manufacturers of alarms and electrical equipment, the Leicester firm of Gent moved into clockmaking after patenting an electrically reset[...]

Overview image of Gillett & Johnston clock

Gillett & Johnston (formerly Gillett & Bland) (trading from 1844)

Originally manufacturers of turret clocks (as Gillett & Bland), and bells and carillons (from the 1870s), Gillett & Johnston moved[...]

Jefferson Electric Company

Jefferson Electric was founded in 1915, with John A. Benan as President. Based in Bellwood, Illinois, the company made a[...]

View of a Leroy tank regulator with seconds presentation and elaborately damascened plates

Leroy & Cie

Paris-based watch and clockmakers. Founded in 1785 as Leroy & Fils, the firm became Leroy & Cie in 1889, and[...]

Lowne (trading c.1900-60)

Founded by Robert Mann Lowne c.1900. The company was briefly taken over by Magneta in the 1920s, and some clocks[...]

Magneta

Swiss clockmaking company, founded by Martin Fischer of Zurich. Established premises in London in 1908, and manufactured controlling and subsidiary[...]

Mercer

Clockmakers based in St Albans and London, making marine chronometers from the mid-nineteenth century.

Peyer Favarger

Successor company to Matthaus Hipp's electric clock company, headed by Hipp's former chief engineer.

Princeps (trading 1923-26)

Trading in New Bond Street from 1923, subsequently acquired by the Telephone Manufacturing Company.

Self Winding Clock Company

The Self Winding Clock Company began trading in the USA 1886, and soon expanded from individual self-winding clocks into synchronised[...]

Silent Electric Clock Company (trading c.1900-25)

Company formed by George Bennett Bowell, trading until 1925.

Smiths (founded 1851)

Synchronome Electric (trading 1895-c.1980)

Founded in 1895 by Frank Hope-Jones and George Bennett Bowell, the Synchronome Company became a major commercial supplier of electric[...]

English dial clock with bevel opened

The Standard Time and Telephone Company (trading c.1876-c.1970)

Barraud & Lund were originally chronometer makers, but operated as a time synchronisation service from 1868, under the leadership of[...]

Wagner

Clock company founded by Carl Theodor Wagner in 1852. Based in Wiesbaden from 1863.

Warren Telechron Inc. (active 1912-1992)

Later known as 'Telechron'. American electric clock manufacturer founded by Henry E. Warren.

Zenith

Swiss watchmaking company founded in Le Locle in 1865.