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Nicolas rieussec vintage chronograph moon
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Montblanc Celebrates 200 Years of the Chronograph With an Homage to the Very First One
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Two hundred years ago today, in 1821, at the horse races in the Champ de Mars, Paris, French inventor and clockmaker Nicolas Rieussec, one of the official watchmakers to King Louis XVIII, won the approval for a rather nifty new invention.
Fortunately, the French Academy of Sciences, to whom Rieussec presented the machine a month later, decided to name it following scientific convention, otherwise today, you might be wearing a horseometer or maybe a chevalomètre on your wrist.
Rieussec’s invention was conceived to time racehorses, you see, at a time when the sport was hugely popular among the nobs of Paris.
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He succeeded in creating a clock that would track the times of all the horses in a race using ink dots drawn on revol