By Elizabeth Doerr, Contributor

Louis Moinet (1768-1853) was a watchmaker, sculptor and painter from Bourges, France. A contemporary of Abraham-Louis Breguet, Abraham-Louis Perrelet and Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec, he was an academic and dabbled in astronomy. Though the goals of most of his inventions were for his own use, he did sell his clocks to the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte and Thomas Jefferson. …read more
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