Andreas Hohwü (July 18, 1803 in
Gråsten
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) on the border of Denmark and Germany.
He was the son of the clockmaker Thomas Hohwü, and in 1829 he trained with
Johann Heinrich Kessels (1781–1849) in Altona.
In 1834 he travelled to Paris to study with
Louis Breguet
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Biography
Louis Charles Breguet was the grandson of L ...
and worked in his workshop until 1839.
In 1840 he moved to
Amsterdam
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where he started his own workshop making clocks. His regulators were known for their precision and he supplied astronomical laboratories all over Europe.
Teylers instrument website
/ref> He was awarded the Dutch honorary title orde van de Eikenkroon in 1849 and the title orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw
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in 1869.
References
Andreas Hohwü on watch-wiki.org
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1803 births
1885 deaths
People from Sønderborg Municipality
People from the Duchy of Schleswig
Danish clockmakers