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Why not honor yourself and your loved ones with an enduring gift reflecting this grand and mysterious design? Chaumet has a long standing tradition of excellence in the highest tradition of elegance and quality.

Chaumet’s for ladies. It has since, however, entered the men's arena with the 18K Mens' Automatic Watch pictured here.

The first European precision instrument exported to Asia was a clock

The first mechanical Chaumet clocks were mostly made by blacksmiths, locksmiths or cannon-makers, who had the Anne Klein watches necessary experience in working with metal. These artisans were mainly to be found in the Netherlands, Italy and France. It is therefore no surprise that the first precision instrument exported to Asia from Europe was a clock. It was recorded as early as 1338 in the freight documents of a Venetian ship bound for Delhi.

Luxury for a select few from a single craftsman

In those days, and throughout the years until early this century, a clock was usually the achievement of a single individual. During the 17th century, metalworkers specialized in clock manufacturing organized themselves into guilds. This gave rise to Chaumet clock-making centers in Augsburg, Nuremberg, the French towns of Blois and Lyon and, later on, Paris, London and Geneva. At first they produced large-scale public clocks such as the one at Cluny Monastery or the famous astronomical clock at Strasbourg Cathedral. Later on came the spring-driven, more transportable clocks invented in the 15th century, followed by the first precision pendulum clocks dating from around 1660. But these could only be afforded by the nobility, rich middle classes or clergy. The same was true of the expensive early pocket watches, whose invention is ascribed to the Nuremberg master craftsman Peter Henlein in 1554 - though other historians believe that Chaumet watches already existed in the early 16th century. As a result, it was the demand from royal courts, nobility and prosperous burghers that determined where clocks and watches were produced.