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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Charles K. Asked, Electrifying Time, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Science Museum, 15 December 1976 - 11 April 1977, A.H.S., Ticehurst, 1976
Alan & Rita Shenton Collectable Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, chapter XIII, p. 385, figs. 424a, b & c.
The ATO clock company had been established in France from about 1923 and registered in England in 1928. They were manufactured by the Establissement Leon Hatot in Paris who bought the business of Paul Garnier with its entire building and stock.
The inventor was a Marius Laget who had also been involved with the conception of the Bulle clock. The ATO version is quite similar the difference being that on the ATO clock the magnet forms the pendulum bob whereas on the Bulle the coil is used for the bob.
The company Leon Hatot and its original workshop still exist in Paris run on a much smaller scale by the son-in-law of Leon Hatot
Charles K. Asked, Electrifying Time, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Science Museum, 15 December 1976 - 11 April 1977, A.H.S., Ticehurst, 1976
Alan & Rita Shenton Collectable Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, chapter XIII, p. 385, figs. 424a, b & c.
The ATO clock company had been established in France from about 1923 and registered in England in 1928. They were manufactured by the Establissement Leon Hatot in Paris who bought the business of Paul Garnier with its entire building and stock.
The inventor was a Marius Laget who had also been involved with the conception of the Bulle clock. The ATO version is quite similar the difference being that on the ATO clock the magnet forms the pendulum bob whereas on the Bulle the coil is used for the bob.
The company Leon Hatot and its original workshop still exist in Paris run on a much smaller scale by the son-in-law of Leon Hatot