tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43459390961601839522024-03-18T20:57:16.488-07:00ART DECO clocksThis blog is about clocks, mostly French manufacturers created between 1920 and 1940. In it, I'll be talking about the most famous French manufacturers of the period - DEP, Duverdrey & Bloquel (Bayard) Blangy, Jaz, SMI, "Just" and some others...if there is any interest, I can also date most clocks quite accuratelySushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14504949096837143146noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345939096160183952.post-16850463806927736322013-03-04T22:42:00.000-08:002013-10-27T07:18:37.171-07:00Breveté and SGDG on French clocks<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There still are some clock sellers and buyers who mistakenly believe that "Breveté" is a French clock brand name. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Breveté</span></strong><em> (or brevete without the accent as most sellers write it)</em> means <strong>patented</strong> in French and most clocks produced between about 1850 and 1950 have that word stamped on the back....It is the legal registration of some element of the clock or all of it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along with breveté, SGDG is usually also stamped on the back case of a French clock produced during that period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">SGDG</span> is not a brand</strong>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It means 'Without any guarantee from the Government' (<strong>S</strong>ans <strong>G</strong>arantie <strong>D</strong>u <strong>G</strong>overnement) and was by law required to be stamped on ALL objects with a legal patent from 1844 until 1968, especially those manufactured for export.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some French manufacturers produced clocks for high-end jewellers (such as Tiffany's, Mappin Webb and private names) without stamping their own brand name on them, BUT they did have to stamp "Breveté" and SGDG somewhere on the movement and usually on the back case. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Some manufacturers also made their export clocks easier to identify by stamping "Made in France" or simply "France" rather than <em>Fabriqué en France</em> on them. It is not that unusual to find two identical models of a clock, one with Fabriqué en France on it which means it was made for the French market and the other with Made in France which was exported. </span>Sushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14504949096837143146noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345939096160183952.post-88751700387179621172012-08-30T21:49:00.001-07:002013-10-27T07:19:08.504-07:00JAZ Commemorative clock<div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This particular clock is easily recognizable by the number "70" printed on the dial in a small rectangle and the brand name Jaz under the 12 with the bird's tail in a downward position. The overall styling is very "Art Deco" with honeycomb hands, a 'skyscraper' styling, rectangular brass decorations on the front and the elongated dial face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The movement is a quartz operated on a small battery. Quartz movements were not incorporated into clocks until the 1970's and basically meant the end of mechanical movements. In comparison to its predecessors, this clock is relatively very light in weight.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Although it is a relatively recent issue, it has become over the past decade a very collectible piece, however it should not be confused with JAZ bakelite cased clocks manufactured in the 20's and 30's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The parts were then collected and mounted into a piece by an 'assembler'. Once the movement was assembled, it was then sent to a 'dresser' who would in turn mount it into a case - be it a small one or an elaborate brass plated mantle clock complete with mythological figures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Frederic Japy purchased some of few clock making machines in existence, brought them back to his native town of Beaucourt and proceeded to invent new ones in order to standardize the pieces and the quality of the production. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The workers were then regrouped into one location instead of being scattered throughout the countryside and each one was assigned to a specific work post with its own specific machine. Frederic Japy radically changed the way clocks were produced. The sequential production of parts in one location - a manufacturing plant - aided by machines meant that clock parts were made and assembled in about half the time that it had taken previously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Japy's plant revolutionized manufacturing. Production schedules were now established by the plant owner and not by the local artisan. The number of steps and operations were reduced by half. All parts could be assembled into a finished product on-site instead of the previous sub-assemblies and the machines could be operated by a less-skilled worker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Japy then imagined other applications (and invented the machines required to produce them) such as the mass production of hardware parts (screws, nails, bolts) and other products - rotating pumps (a model still in use today), </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">locks, and he perfected the creation and baking of enamelware. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In clockmaking - Japy's enamel dials became the standard for the great majority of clock manufacturers for 150 years both in France and abroad. There are few French carriage clocks in existence that do not have Japy enamel dials on them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Japy's plants continued to produce clocks in many styles and at the higher priced levels. In 1806, he handed the direction of his businesses to his three sons - and it became <strong><em>Japy Frères (Japy Brothers) </em></strong>who in turn diversified the manufacturing to produce coffee grinders, typewriters, enamelware, kitchen utensils, office machines such as the first typewriters, refrigerator pumps, advertising signs and they invented more machines to transform copper and steel wires into elaborate hardware parts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">However, his sons' sons did not inherit the creative and inventive spirit of their fathers and grandfather and by the early 1900's, many of the the businesses were sold off and the manufacturing was dismantled. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the 1930's, Japy Frères decided to 'reinvent' themselves to appeal to a wider market and they produced several models with tin casings and in various geometrical styles. Unfortunately they were competing with names such as Jaz and Blangy in that segment of the market and sales were rather limited. As with most French clockmakers, WWII basically decimated them</span></div>
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During the past nine years, I've done a lot of research on DEP clocks as well as on the majority of French clock manufacturers. As my personal collection grew, I met dozens of equally passionate clock collectors, attended clock fairs, dug up old papers, catalogues and histories, visited clock museums and had the priviledge of meeting the late Georges Lacroix who owned the greatest DEP clock collection in existence. A true renaissance man, Georges not only generously shared his collection but also introduced me to the descendants of the original DEPery family. Interestingly, Georges' father and grandfather were also clockmakers and worked in the DEP manufacturing plants. </div>
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What has always intrigued me about clocks is how such functionally mundane object could be interpreted so many different ways - especially the dials and numbering. </div>
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There are thousands of clock collectors in the world, each of them with their own special interest and clock fairs bring out the best of them and there is no doubt that we all roam the aisles and happily discuss our collections, always in the hope of finding that one clock that we don't have yet.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #351c75;">During the years of association with Diette, most of the models produced reflected the styles and taste of the period, including small carriage clocks with a visible escapement and balance wheel. They had DH stamped on the back of the movement and were delivered in</span> <span style="color: #20124d;">very fine calf leather carrying cases.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">Their more popular models included enamel dial clocks that were incorporated into large bronze or porcelain mantle clocks such as the one shown below.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their clocks were entered in numerous exhibits and won the Grand Prix in Brussels in 1910 and the Grand Prix in Turin in 1911.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">After WWI, Hour Lavigne revolutionized the concept of what a clock could look like. While most manufacturers interpreted the new Art Deco movement as using existing clock movements and dials in more stylized casings, Hour Lavigne transformed all visible parts of a clock - the dial, the case, the hands, the numbering into a new, coherent whole truly reflective of the Art Deco style. At the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, they presented a dozen clocks that simply wiped out the competition.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the most striking examples presented by Hour Lavigne at the 1925 Art Deco Exhibit from the catalogue. The clock case is in red veined marble while the numbers are small tablets of white fired enamel with the numbers in red encrusted in them. Four small stylized squares with small gold frames fill the corners while the black hands reflect the round chubbiness of the font used in the numbering on a gold background. A judge described it <em>as a symphony of red, white and black </em>worthy of the highest admiration. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hour Lavigne clocks shown in 1925 redefined the aesthetics of clockmakers for decades. While many of their pieces were 'one of' (as most Art Deco pieces were before mass reproduction), they had shrewdly realized after WWI that there was a growing market for high quality, original clocks reflecting the new streamline Art Deco aesthetics. <strong>That resulted in the extension of the "JUST" brand which had been used for their watch production since the 1900's, to clocks.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While they kept up the production of their more traditional mantle clocks and large bronze ornament clocks with garnitures and figures, they developed a new line of regulator clocks and smaller clocks based on the success of the the clocks they had presented at the 1925 Exhibition.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of those clocks is shown on the left.</span> <span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of the large JUST clocks from that period</span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">were manufactured in very limited numbers as they were relatively expensive and very heavy (this one is over 10 lbs in weight) to ship.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">The clock on the left has an asymmetrical case composed of three different colours of marbles with a polished chrome face and short, square shaped hands. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">The numbering is unique and original in that it is one of the few clocks that did not use Roman numerals as do the great majority of JUST clocks.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">High-end jewelers in both America and in the U.K.did not normally manufacture the clocks they sold under their names, but sought out prestigious clockmakers to produce models with their brands stamped on the dial and the maker's name or logo on the movement. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two of the small easel clocks produced in the mid 1920's. Their clocks were mostly decorative with no alarm function.</span><br />
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Sushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14504949096837143146noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345939096160183952.post-76278866742995274372012-02-08T00:04:00.000-08:002013-10-27T07:16:30.916-07:00BAYARD Carriage clocks<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Albert Villon established his clock making shop in 1867 in St Nicholas D'Aliermont in northern France, he specialized in marine clocks and travel/carriage clocks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the 1980's (1982-83) they began reproducing some of the clocks that had originally been manufactured by the first Bayard company, including a line of '<strong>mignonettes</strong>' - carriage clocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mignonettes (meaning small, sweet i.e. mignon)</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">are excellent, <strong>high-class <u>reproductions</u> of some of the carriage clocks made by Duverdrey & Bloquel at the beginning of the XIXth Century.</strong> They are still mechanical clocks (not quartz) and should not be confused with Bayard carriage clocks made in the XIXth or early XXth centuries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A total of four different mignonette models were produced, some with Arabic numbers, other with Roman numerals. All have solid brass cases, bevelled glass fronts, backs and sides and an 8-day movement with an enamel dial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">They are easily recognizable by the name 'Bayard' stamped on the dial below the 12 along with 8 day and Made in France.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of them were made and sold for export to the UK and the US.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are becoming more and more collectable since their production ceased thirty years ago and their mechanical movement is of the same high quality as the original Bayard carriage clocks. The 'mignonette' model with Arabic numbers is the rarest of the four models.</span><br />
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</span>Sushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14504949096837143146noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345939096160183952.post-42934571900418885642011-04-09T11:32:00.000-07:002013-10-27T07:23:04.927-07:00JAZ - the success of the 1930's<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As early as 1924, Jaz began exporting clocks not only to other clock producing countries in Europe, but also to the Americas and to the Far-East. As its reputation grew, so did the number of models as well as technical improvements of the mechanical movements. Until 11930, most of its clock models were round clocks in brass, chrome or small square ladies clocks in the same materials. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Then in the early 1930's, aa new material came onto the market that would revolutionize manufacturing: Bakelite. As Jaz preferred to customize its components, it named the bakelite used in its model <em>Jazolite.</em> Coinciding with new casings was the new major technical advancement of an 8 - day movement to replace the 30 hour movement. New clocks now only required winding every week instead of every day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">New alarm clock models began filling the shelves and Jaz strongly promoted the idea of a clock in every room in the house including the kitchen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In 1934 they produced a large mantle sized clock using a new type of movement that was almost silent and did not include an alarm . The <em>Silentic </em>had something unique: a tiny triangle in the 12 indicating that the clock needed to be wound when it showed red.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Jaz was the leader in the number of styles, models and overall sales until WWII, when materials became rarer and workers were drafted into military service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">When the Third Reich invaded France, the Nazis objected to the use of the word JAZ because it was interpreted as a symbol of 'decadent American music'. To circumvent their objection (and possible closure of the production plants) the directors explained that the name JAZ referred to a small bird, the <em>Jaseur Boréal</em> and bore no relation to the music. As a result, all clocks manufactured after 1942 had a little bird stamped above the Jaz name. The bird's tail was directed downward and this was used until 1967, when the bird's tail was then directed upward.</span></div>
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Sushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14504949096837143146noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345939096160183952.post-82757049791719171472011-04-09T04:46:00.000-07:002013-10-27T07:23:32.184-07:00JAZ - the beginnings<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As WWI drew to a close, the industrial revolution took wings. As a result, engineers and technicians who imagined, designed and produced the machines that produced objects in large quantities at a cheaper price became a driving force in this new economic reality. Before then, it was clockmakers who created clock manufacturing plants. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In 1919, a small group of French engineers - realizing that there was a very lucrative potential market for alarm clocks (essential elements to get the industrial workforce up and into the workplace on time) decided to create a manufacturing process that would "<em>produce an alarm clock in large quantities, of superior quality and pleasing presentation, capable of competing with foreign imports."</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Why the name JAZ? There are two schools of thought: one believes that it was the first letter of the family names of the original three engineers and the other believes that it was in reference to the new American music sweeping the Continent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">From the beginning, all Jaz clocks had both a model number and a model NAME..<strong>and ALL model names finish in "ic".</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">This first model was revolutionary. The alarm bell was on the back of the clock and not on top. It had a button that allowed the alarm to be turned off and because of the thickness of the metal used, </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">the sound of the alarm bell was more melodic and richer than the usual shrilly, ear-splitting sound of a tin hammer against a tin bell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Another revolution was the same model - The Classic L produced with luminous numbers and hands allowing time to be seen in the dark. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">More than 10.000 of them were sold during the first year - which represented an exceptional success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In view of their initial success, the company decided on a unique and potentially risky marketing and sales approach. Their clocks would <strong>only</strong> be sold through retail clockmakers and jewelers, never in catalogues reasoning that even the smallest of villages had a clockmaker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Another very imaginative marketing initiative was that Jaz did not advertise in magazines or newspapers for their first ten years. Their target market was the workers and few of them read papers or magazines but....everyone went to the movies! So Jaz created some of the first silent, animated advertisements to be shown before the main feature. Apparently this approach was so successful that clockmakers and jewelery shops located in large cities, near movie houses would remain open until the end of the last showing to give people an opportunity to buy a Jaz on their way home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Given the success of their first model, a new similar model <em>le Replic</em> was produced. It came in four sizes, but the big difference was the new mechanism - The Calibre D - that was so sturdy, it was used in most of their clocks from 1921 until 1955, a unique achievement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Between 1921 and 1930, Jaz steadily built up and solidified its hold on the French utilitarian clock market. They always emphasized that they were French-made and to position the brand, they were always called a 'JAZ', never a Jaz clock. Like many other everyday objects, they wanted JAZ to become synonymous with time telling...and it did.</span></div>
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Sushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14504949096837143146noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345939096160183952.post-27156913929872029372011-02-27T07:21:00.000-08:002013-10-27T07:24:22.909-07:00Duverdrey & Bloquel then Bayard - Part 1<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clockmaking was the economic engine of the small village of Saint Nicholas D'Aliermont in Normandy for over two hundred and fifty years, beginning with the arrival of Charles-Antoine Croutte in 1725. Son of a clockmaker, Charles -Antoine succeeded so well in attracting workers to the village that 25 years later in 1750, Saint Niicholas counted 8 production shops and 27 on the eve of the French revolution in 1789.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1867, <strong>Albert Villon</strong> established his clockmaking shop in Saint Nicholas and began creating small 'domestic' alarm and mantle clocks, utilizing Japy Frères' famous enamel dials. Villon identified his clocks by includiing his initials A.V. on the back and added his logo, the "lion passant" or walking lion which became the trademark for </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">over eighty years..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1896, Albert Villon associated himself with Paul <strong>Duverdrey</strong> and Joseph <strong>Bloquel</strong> and the three of them created the company known as Albert Villon, Duverdrey et Bloquel which operated under that name until Villon's death in 1902.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was then rebaptized <strong>Duverdrey & Bloquel</strong> and in 1928, the brand name Bayard was retained. Bayard was chosen in reference to a character of French history known as the Chevalier de Bayard, who was without fear and without reproach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">From 1928 to about 1932, many of the clocks produced were stamped with both names - Duverdrey & Bloquel - Bayard mostly on the clock mechanism and finally only <strong>Bayard </strong>was kept along with the logo of the walking lion. Interestingly, people still confuse the Bayard lion with the car manufacturer Peugeot's lion even though the two of them are dramatically different in design. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">With the increasing mechanization of the manufacturing process, Bayard clocks were mass produced and exported to the four corners of the world during the 1930's - a feat in itself. They also produced models for private brands such as Tribaudeau and the Manufrance catalogue. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Many of the clocks produced by Duverdrey & Bloquel did not have identification marks on the case, only on the clock's internal mechanism which makes identification sometimes a bit tricky. This is especially true for clocks that were manufactured for export.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most easily recognizable Bayard clock is the one with the enamel dial and Roman numerals that was produced in varying sizes and case finishes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This model ranged from the small "bijou" ladies clock in a leather carrying case, to a desk clock to the large mantle clock with a marble case weighing over 3 kgs.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a personal note, Bayard's clock mechanisms are surprisingly sturdy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">With the downturn of the early 1930's falling into a full-blown economic depression, the retail market in many sectors collapsed and clock makers were no exception. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">People simply did not purchase non-essentials. DEP tried to weather the storm by producing more utilitarian alarm clocks in a sober style, using plainer, cheaper materials.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Travel clocks were now permanently encased in elegant leather boxes </span><span style="font-family: arial;">lined in either velour or silk. They were light, small and could be discreetly carried and placed on even the narrowest of night tables.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Many of their clocks were made for export and had 'Made in France' and 'Breveté' stamped on the back as required by law, along with the letters SGDG which mean Without Guarantee from the Government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The DEP manufacturing headquarters were located in Cluses, a small industrial town in the Savoie and like many clock makers, it was a seasonal occupation for farmers during the winter months. Clock making had been a major industry there for decades and the creation in 1849 of one of France's largest clock making schools - L'Ecole de L'Horlogerie de Cluses - confirmed its importance. In 1900, Cluses and the neighbouring town of Scionzier counted over 40 manufacturing plants related to clock making. Social and economic lines were drawn and the wealthy owners of the parts and clock manufacturing plants were firmly entrenched in their belief of their God-given rights to do as they wished, and that included managing their workers' lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1904 when seven workers were fired for supporting the election of an opposing municipal party without the permission of the plant owner, the plant workers went on strike demanding their reinstatement. The owner refused and the strike spread to the other plants. It was the first industrial general strike and shut down the clock making industry. Things took a tragic turn when the son of the plant owner where the strike began, fired on the demonstrators in front of the gates, killing several of them. It marked the beginning of the labor movement and a new socio-economic order in the French clock making industry.</span></div>
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Sushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14504949096837143146noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345939096160183952.post-42197438645805295902011-02-09T05:39:00.000-08:002013-10-27T07:27:06.706-07:00DEP clocks<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidYJjUPL4g_95KCEcsxfoK6v7Wjxdzy_aGvOZr2mbNoAcdgPerGodZ4UUZxzvwKw7nJJv5mErVX-u76922t8Jplr41bd-1p4s0a0XhuZCDYgy4ADGLXXtensRIZjpIKJBDdsM0G7t1wOh7/s1600/DSC00134.JPG"></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><em><strong>D</strong>urée, <strong>E</strong>légance, <strong>P</strong>récision</em> - durability, elegance, precision - the marketing words used in DEP clocks advertisements in the 1920's and 30's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For me, DEP clocks personify Art Deco Period clocks with their elegant and often unusual dials, shapes, and the use of elegant materials in the clock casings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The brand DEP came from the family name Dépéry who were well-established clockmakers as well as clock parts manufacturers and flourished between 1826 and 1954. The clock mechanisms were produced in their establishments and then sent to "clock dressers" or even to other manufacturers who placed them in casings, polished them and readied them for shipping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Like many manufacturers, DEP provided clocks for other brand names such as the Tribaudeau catalogue or "Trib" brand and even produced some under the name of specific jewelers/clockmakers.</span></div>
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Sushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14504949096837143146noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345939096160183952.post-23748222150712875722011-02-09T04:58:00.001-08:002013-10-27T07:27:34.243-07:00Art Deco clocks - the why<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj30u6jmi3ktxx6mWJL1MfauQZ4alTrgK4Alu7D1MDPe-MgS1w4bb0LLpZDhWtNzyOVxiUb9YFX1Cuh6tkZByqh0vSycqpOfzlni_fAM706CaTT7TQC55gZpRXX71AkIbT7IWuu6susqApj/s1600/DSC00078.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571673704134810562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj30u6jmi3ktxx6mWJL1MfauQZ4alTrgK4Alu7D1MDPe-MgS1w4bb0LLpZDhWtNzyOVxiUb9YFX1Cuh6tkZByqh0vSycqpOfzlni_fAM706CaTT7TQC55gZpRXX71AkIbT7IWuu6susqApj/s320/DSC00078.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 181px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">I love French clocks from the Art Deco period - the years between the great wars. My affair with clocks began when I spotted a very dilapidated DEP clock in a flea market. The oval dial and elongated numbers caught my eye. The chrome case was in a sad condition, but I bought it because it was so unusual. Prior to that clocks had always been round with a bell on top that made enough noise to raise the dead. Between then and now, I have collected over 500 mechanical clocks made by one or another of the great manufacturers that have all disappeared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">DEP, Blangy, Jaz, Japy, Bayard, Diette Hour were the brands that through research revealed a successful clock making industry </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">that supplied the mechanisms that until WWII, supported the renown of even the Swiss. clock makers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Clocks are interesting objects. They all have the same basic functionality - to tell the time, yet between the wars clock makers and designers let their imaginations soar. Round, square, oval, half-moon, triangular dials with all sorts of numbering with marble, chrome, bakelite, brass and even gold and silver clock casings were produced and exported to Europe, America and even the Far East.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">With each clock acquired came the curiosity of its origins. Where were the manufacturing plants and why? How many different models were produced? Old catalogues, books, clock fairs and even discussions with the descendants of the original manufacturers provided some answers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Hopefully as I develop this blog, other clock enthusiasts will join me to exchange information.</span></div>
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