The following is a list of

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companies that produced, or currently produce clocks. Where known, the location of the company and the dates of clock manufacture follow the name. In some instances the "company" consisted of a single person.

American clockmakers

Australian clockmakers

* ADINA,

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(1971–present) *

COBB & Co Cobb & Co was the name used by many successful sometimes quite independent Australian coaching businesses. The first was established in 1853 by American Freeman Cobb and his partners. The name Cobb & Co grew to great prominence in the late 19th ...

., (1853–present) * Ingrams Time Systems, (late 1800s-present)

Austrian clockmakers

* L. Hainz, Prague (1813 - 1873) Fine inlaid Vienna Regulators, Dwarf Vienna Regulator * Carl Saboy,

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

(1875-1890) * Karl Suchy & Sohne, Vienna (1870–1890 (?)) * Mikulas of Kadan,

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and List of cities in the Czech Republic, largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 milli ...

* M.Miller & Sohn,

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

(1800-?) *Wilhelm Bauer, Vienna (active 1884) President of Vienna Clockmakers Society 1881, and active Clockmaker until late 1920s. Produced Post Office/Official Government Vienna Regulators. Some clocks signed "Kreutz & Bauer in Wein". *Gebr. Resch, Ebensee, Austria. Used trademark "REMEMBER". Factory began 1862 in Vienna, moved to Ebensee 1871. Produced up to 15,000 clocks in 1885. Factory sold to Junghans 1901 & renamed "Uhrenfabrik Ebensee Austria". *Johann Mold, (c. 1870) Vienna. Example known: Serpentine Dwarf Case Vienna Regulator. No record found of this maker.

Canadian clockmakers

* Bees with clocks inc. * The Arthur Pequegnat Clock Company

Chinese clockmakers

* Twemco

Danish clockmakers

* Peter Mathiesen, Copenhagen (17251768) * Mette Magrete Tvistman (1741-1827) * Henrik Kyhl, Copenhagen (18181866) * Bertram Larsen,

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Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

(1827-1970s)

English clockmakers

* Mayfair * Joseph Antram (clockmaker/watchmaker) to King George I. (Fleet St. London) Active 1691 - 1723. Bracket clock examples exist. * Sir John Bennett; 65 Cheapside, London, watch, clock and jewellery manufacturer (15 October 1814- 3 July 1897), was a watchmaker and local politician. He was the eldest son of John Bennett, watchmaker, of Greenwich. * Edward East, clockmaker to King Charles I. * Chas Goodall (Clockmaker)1793-1818 26 Bridges St, Covent Garden. *

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(7 July 1673 – 20 November 1751) a partner of Thomas Tompion *

Frank Hope-Jones Frank Hope-Jones (1867–1950) was a British horologist. He was born the son of William Hope-Jones in Eastham, Wirral Peninsula and educated at Birkenhead School. His brother was Robert Hope-Jones, the electric organ designer. His parents were ...

(1867-1950) * Joseph Johnson;

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...

(1795–1827) *

Thomas Kefford Thomas Kefford (baptised 18 March 1686, in Royston) (fl. 1710–1750), was a noted English clockmaker doing business at ''The Dial'', Fore Street, Royston, Hertfordshire Royston is a town and civil parish in the District of North Hertfor ...

( fl. 1710–1750). *

Joseph Knibb Joseph Knibb (1640–1711) was an English clockmaker of the Restoration era. According to author Herbert Cescinsky, a leading authority on English clocks, Knibb, "next to Tompion, must be regarded as the greatest horologist of his time." Life a ...

- Born 1640 Claydon, Oxfordshire Died 1711 *

George Littlewort George Littlewort (fl. 1826–48), was a chronometer and instrument maker operating from London, Bristol and Stroud. 17 Bridgewater Square and 4 Wilderness Row Goswell Rd., Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county i ...

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( fl. 1826–48) *

Metamec Metamec was a manufacturer of domestic clocks in the second half of the 20th century, and was based in Dereham, Norfolk, England. The name "Metamec" is derived from "metal-work and mechanics". The company started as an offshoot of the furniture ...

(1947-1984) * Newgate Clocks;

Shropshire Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to ...

(1991–present) * Bartholomew Newsam; London (died 1593) * William Hamilton Shortt (1881-1971) *

Thwaites & Reed Thwaites & Reed has been in continuous manufacture since its foundation and claims to be the oldest clock manufacturing company in the world. Geoffrey Buggins MBE, the last of the original family clockmakers, saw drawings of Thwaites clocks datin ...

Clockmakers Ltd.; East Sussex (1740–present) *

Thomas Tompion Thomas Tompion, FRS (1639–1713) was an English clockmaker, watchmaker and mechanician who is still regarded to this day as the "Father of English Clockmaking". Tompion's work includes some of the most historic and important clocks and watc ...

(1639–1713) * Benjamin Ward; London (1799–1808) * Eardley Norton, a most highly esteemed member of the Clockmakers' Company, was working between 1762 and 1794. There are clocks by him in the Royal Collection and many museums worldwide. Norton made an astronomical clock for George III which still stands in Buckingham Palace.

French clockmakers

* Antoine Thiout the elder (Paris, 1692–1767) *

Abraham-Louis Breguet Abraham-Louis Breguet (10 January 1747 – 17 September 1823), born in Neuchâtel, then a Prussian principality, was a horologist who made many innovations in the course of a career in watchmaking industry. He was the founder of the Bregue ...

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Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

(1775–1823) *Louis-Gabriel Brocot;

(1791–1872) * Achille Brocot;

(1817–1878) *Antoine Brocot;

(1814–1874) * Jean-Baptiste Delettrez;

(1816–1887) *

Japy Freres Japy () is a French surname. Notable people with this surname include: * Arthur Japy Hepburn (1877–1964), American admiral * Camille Japy (born 1968), Belgian-French actress * Joséphine Japy Joséphine Japy (born 12 July 1994) is a French ...

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Beaucourt Beaucourt () is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in northeastern France. The archivist and palaeographer Élie Berger (1850–1925) was born in Beaucourt. Population Literature ''Beaucourt Revisite ...

(1776–1910 (?)) * Auguste Amiet; Strasbourg (1774–1814)

German clockmakers

Johann Baptist Beha Johann Baptist Beha (1815 - 1898) was a prestigious Black Forest clockmaker born in Oberbränd ( Eisenbach). He was trained by his father, the master clockmaker Vinzenz Beha (1764-1868), in his workshop where he built around 365 clocks between 1 ...

(1815–1898) *

Gustav Becker Gustav Eduard Becker (May 2, 1819 in Oels, Silesia - September 17, 1885 in Berchtesgaden) was a German clockmaker and founder of the brand Gustav Becker. Biography Early life Becker learned clockmaking in Silesia and enriched his skills by lear ...

Clock Company; Freiburg in Schlesien,

Silesia Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...

(1850–1938) * Florn * Thomas Haller (Thomas Haller AG), Schwenningen (1880-1900) then merged with Junghans * Thomas Ernst Haller (Haller AG), Schwenningen (1902-1928) then merged with Kienzle * Haller Uhrenfabrik GmbH, Simonswald (1874–present) * Hamburg-Amerikanische Uhrenfabrik,

Schramberg Schramberg is a town in the district of Rottweil, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the eastern Black Forest, 25 km northwest of Rottweil. With all of its districts (Talstadt, Sulgen, Waldmössingen, Heiligenbronn, Schönbron ...

(HAU, HAC in English markets) (1883-1930) then absorbed by Junghans * Hermle Clocks (1922–present) *

Junghans Junghans Uhren GmbH is a German watch and clock manufacturer. The company is located in the district of Rottweil, in a town called Schramberg, Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany. History On 15 April 1861 Erhard Junghans created the compan ...

(1861–present) * Kieninger Clock Company, initially in Mönchweiler, 1921 new factory in

Aldingen Aldingen is a municipality in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Geography Aldingen lies on the eastern edge of the Baar region at the foot of the Swabian Jura, and within sight of the Dreifaltigkeitsberg (Holy Trini ...

(1912–present) * Kieninger & Obergfell Uhrenfabrik (KUNDO trademark), Sankt Georgen (1918 - recent) * Kienzle Uhren, Schwenningen - Schlenker and Keinzle until c1897 (1883-1996) *

Franz Ketterer Franz Anton Ketterer (1676–1749) was a German clockmaker. Ketterer, one of the founding fathers of the Black Forest clockmaking industry in Germany, was born in the village of . He is chiefly remembered as one of the earliest makers of cuckoo c ...

* Lenzkirch Clock Co (Aktiengessellschaft fur Ukrenfabrikation) (1851-1929) factory operated by Junghans 1929-1932 * Mauthe Clock Company (c1870 - 1976) * Jakob Schlenker Grusen, Schwenningen (JSGUS/ISGUS) (1888–present) * Johannes Schlenker, Schwenningen (1822-1883) then Schlenker and Kienzle (1883-1897) then Kienzle * Sigmund Riefler of the firm Clemens Riefler, Nesselwang and

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(1890–1965) * Carl Werner Uhrenfabrik, Villingen (1870-1912) taken over by Kienzle * Winterhalder & Hofmeier (clocks)

Russian clockmakers

* Egor Grigorievich Kuznetzov-Zhepinskiy (1775–1805); Nijniy Tagil * Ivan Mezgin (1855–1900 (?)); Cherniy Yar,

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive region, geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a ...

* Lev Isidorovich Nechaev (1825–1861);

Yaroslavl Yaroslavl ( rus, Ярослáвль, p=jɪrɐˈsɫavlʲ) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historic part of the city is a World Heritage Site, and is located at the confluenc ...

Scottish clockmakers

John Paterson Airdrie * James Ivory and son (active 1729–1800)

Swedish clockmakers

* Betty Linderoth (1822-1900) *

Hilda Petrini Hilda Catharina Petrini (9 October 1838, Stockholm – 30 January 1895, Stockholm) was a Swedish watchmaker, clock maker and businesswoman. She has been referred to as the first female master of mechanics of her country. Life and work Hild ...

(1838-1895) * Johann Zehr (1841-1892) ; Arvika

Swiss clockmakers

* Gallet & Co. (1466–present);

Geneva , neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier , website = https://www.geneve.ch/ Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevr ...

Jaeger-LeCoultre Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre SA, or simply Jaeger-LeCoultre (), is a Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturer founded by Antoine LeCoultre in 1833 and is based in Le Sentier, Switzerland. Since 2000, the company has been a fully owned subsidiary ...

(1833–present);

Vaud Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms b ...

Zenith (watchmaker) Zenith SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker. The company was started in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel and is one of the oldest continuously operating watchmakers. Favre-Jacob invented the concept of "in house m ...

(1863–present); Neuchâtel * Azura clocks ( 1914 to present) ;

Moutier Moutier () is a municipality in Switzerland. Currently, the town belongs to the Jura bernois administrative district of the canton of Bern. On 28 March 2021, the population voted to secede from the canton of Bern and join the Canton of Jura; the ...

Ukrainian clockmakers

* Johann Kroeger (1804–1823); Rosental * Kroeger & Co (1804–1938); Rosental *Peter Lepp (ca. 1850);

Chortitza Chortitza Colony was a volost Yekaterinoslav Governorate granted to Plautdietsch-speaking Russian Mennonite for colonization northwest of Khortytsia Island and is now part of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Chortitza was founded in 1789 by Mennonite set ...

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