The Watchmaker's Daughter
The Watchmaker's Daughter, Kilian EiseneggerI'm Mary Pratt, and my father was the British independent watchmaker Derek Pratt. Learning by writing, I explore his legacy, the wider world of horology, and the things that deserve more time.
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Memento Mori
I have never seen this “Watch in the form of a human skull”1, let alone held it in my palm. It belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is currently not on view.
Plate VIII from Williamson’s 1912 catalogue (1970s reprint). Note the he...
Teatime with Derek
In August, I published a Q&A with Kilian Eisenegger, the research and development specialist who was pivotal in industrializing George Daniels’ co-axial escapement, now found in virtually all of Omega’s mechanical watches. I mentioned in th...
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People often ask me if I own any of the wat...
The Missing Movement
Today marks seventeen years since my father Derek Pratt passed away at 71. There was a great deal he still wanted to do and could not, because of the prostate cancer that took his life too soon.
Two years later, on September 18, 2011, the...
Henry B. Fried: “Horology is the most marvelous science in the world”
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In April 1994 three men sat down to dinner in Grenchen1, Switzerland. Timothy Treffry, then the editor of the Horol...
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I'm Mary Pratt, and my father was the British independent watchmaker Derek Pratt. This is where I explore his legacy, the wider world of horology, and the things that deserve more time.
Watchmaking R&D Expert, New technologies, Innovation, Industrialization
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