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Kinzing, Peter (German mechanical part maker and clockmaker, 1745 -1816)
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Note: Kinzing was a distinguished Neuwied clockmaker. His fascination with clocks began early in his life: as a self-trained clockmaker, he made his first pendulum clock at the age of ten. Public recognition came when he began a successful partnership with the German ébéniste David Roentgen around 1770. Roentgen made the cases and Kinzing produced complicated mechanisms for furniture and astronomical clocks with chimes or pendulums. In 1785 both Kinzing and Roentgen were honored with titles from the French monarchy, with the former becoming 'horloger de la reine' (Clockmaker to the Queen). Marie-Antoinette was said to have been especially charmed by an automaton he made of a lady playing a harpsichord. When Kinzing retired, his son continued the business. |
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(German mechanical part maker and clockmaker, 1745 -1816) ..... [VP Preferred]
(German, 1745-1816) ..... [JPGM]
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