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A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL HATOT DESIGNS FOR WATCHES

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A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL HATOT DESIGNS FOR WATCHES

comprising of two albums, the first, of one hundred and seventy seven designs representing ladies' wristwatches set with diamonds and coloured designs of ladies' wristwatches set with diamonds and sapphires, diamonds and emeralds, diamonds and onyx, also coloured but mainly gentlemen's wristwatches in two-colour gold, of which some digital wristwatches with detailed dials, while in general the dials remain blank; the second, of forty-five designs representing digital pocket watches with blue enamelled monograms and detailed dials, a skeletonized pocket watch in front and side views, some square dress watches, in front and side views, plain or with diamonds, also with diamonds and sapphires, diamonds and emeralds, some enamelled pocket watches, ladies' wristwatches in white gold or two-colour gold, gentlemen's wristwatches in two-colour gold, sometimes with sapphire-set crowns; the two hundred and twenty-two designs in pencil, pen and ink, watercolour heightened with white on tracing paper, grey and brown card, between 1910 and 1940, in two black leather files (222)

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Born on 22 April 1883 at Chatillon sur Seine, Léon Hatot trained at the Ecole d'Horlogerie in Besançon from 1895 to 1898, before continuing his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the same town. In 1905, at the young age of 22, he was already running his own business, specialising in watch-case engraving, and rapidly established a workshop producing watches and jewellery of high quality. In 1911 he founded a branch in Paris, from where he could supply jewellery and watches to the principal jewellers of the Rue de la Paix such as Boucheron, Van Cleef & Arpels, Mauboussin, Janesich, Lacloche and others.
At the outbreak of war in 1939, Société Hatot closed down their jewellery manufacturing workshops, but continued to expand in the field of industrial horology. Léon Hatot died in 1953, leaving behind hundreds of original designs, which bear witness to Maison Hatot's leading influence on the jewellery styles of the 1920s and 1930s.