Jean Romilly (27 June 1714 – 16 February 1796) was an 18th-century Genevan watchmaker, journalist and encyclopédiste.
Jean Romilly
Planche Horlogerie de l’Encyclopédie, t. 3., p. 405
Born
27 June 1714
Geneva
Died
16 February 1796(1796-02-16) (aged 81)
Paris
Occupation(s)
Watchmaker Journalist
Born in a family which took refuge in Geneva following the Edict of Fontainebleau, Romilly became known by various improvements he made to his art. He realized, among other remarkable works, a watch that could go a whole year without being winded, but he left Ferdinand Berthoud the honor to give his invention the required degree of accuracy.
Romilly was one of the founders of the Journal de Paris in 1777, and an editor of the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d’Alembert, to which he contributed articles on the theoretical part of watchmaking.
His son, theologian Jean-Edme Romilly also collaborated with the Encyclopédie. His daughter, Jeanne, was general Cavaignac's grandmother.
Sourcesedit
E. Haag, La France protestante, t. 8, Paris, Joël Cherbuliez, 1858, (p. 513).
G. H. Baillie: Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World. (1929) Reprint Read Books, 2006, ISBN1-4067-9113-X.
Kathleen H. Pritchard: Swiss Timepiece Makers 1775 – 1975. Phoenix-Verlag, USA. ISBN0-9146-5979-0.
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