HISTORY
AS IF FATHER TIME HAD ANOINTED ONE MAN
TO MAKE THE HOURS PASS BEAUTIFULLY.
Louis Moinet became acquainted with Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1817, when Breguet was already quite
famous. Recognizing Moinet's worth at once, Breguet invited him to work and live under the same roof in Breguet's Paris home. Louis became
Breguet’s personal advisor and, from that moment on, science and genius began to work hand in hand in the interest of time and art. When
Breguet passed away in 1823, Moinet left the house on the Quai de l´Horloge and continued shaping his own unique place in watchmaking.
Making and designing timepieces engaged all of Louis Moinet's time and required frequent extended visits to Switzerland. Eventually, Louis
Moinet was appointed President of the Chronometry Society of Paris. His peers recognized him as a genius.
Ultimately, art and watchmaking shared the same stage in Louis Moinet's life. He was commissioned to create clocks for some of the most
important people of his time – Napoleon, King George IV, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe, among others. In the process, Louis Moinet
invigorated and altered the future of world timekeeping for the better. Today, that legacy continues.
Napoleon is presented a Louis Moinet masterpiece.
Moinet moves from France to Rome to study painting, architecture, and fine arts.
Appointed professor of
fine art at the Louvre and begins studies in watchmaking.
Appointed president of the Société Chronométrique de Paris.
Thomas Jefferson acquires a Louis Moinet clock, now part of the Monticello collection.
Becomes personal advisor to master watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet.
James Monroe acquires the Louis Moinet Minerva clock for the White House.
King George IV acquires a Louis Moinet clock for his personal collection.
Publishes the Traité
d´Horlogerie, a groundbreaking two-volume treatise on watchmaking.
Louis Moinet masterpieces displayed in London's World Exhibition.
