Gunnar Pipping - Urmakare och Klockor i Sverige och Finland

Title: Urmakares och klockor i Sverige och Finland
Authors: Gunnar Pipping, Elis Sidenbladh, Erik Elfström
Publisher: Norstedts, Stockholm 1995
ISBN: 91-1-933282-3
Language: Swedish (with English summary)
Length: 564 pages, richly illustrated
Contents: Biographical index, subject section, glossary, appendix of illustrations

This fundamental reference work lists more than 7,000 watchmakers, journeymen and apprentices who worked in Sweden and Finland before 1900 - including many craftsmen who were not members of a guild or official craftsmen's organisation. It is the most important and comprehensive directory of its kind for the Nordic region and builds on Elis Sidenbladh's pioneering work "Urmakares i Sverige under äldre tider" (1947), which is comprehensively supplemented and updated here.

In addition to a systematic biographical index, the work contains a comprehensive factual section on the history of watchmaking in Sweden, including information on the organisation of the craft (guilds, training, watch factories), the dissemination of information within the watchmaking community and the materials used, stamping, design features and materials.

The regionally differentiated section is dedicated to local characteristics in design and technology, for example in Stjärnsund, Mora, Fryksdalsur, Eskilstuna or Västsverige. This is supplemented by a comprehensive glossary of technical terms, colour plate illustrations and lists of case makers, engraving marks, painters and female clockmakers. All the listed clockmakers from Sweden and Finland who worked in St. Petersburg are also included.

The numerous illustrations show tools, case moulds, movement parts, signatures and examples of clocks. The result is a vivid picture of the Nordic watchmaking trade between the 17th and 19th centuries. The concise but informative biographies often contain references to social origins, workshop conditions and regional characteristics.

The directory lists clockmakers from Sweden and Finland. Please click on the following links if you are looking for clockmakers from France, Great Britain, Germany, or the Netherlands.

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