Julien Le Roy

Julien Le Roy (* 1686 in Tours, † 1759 in Paris) was a French watchmaker.

Life

At the age of thirteen Le Roy built his first clock winding. In the same year (1699 ) he moved to Paris to go there in the doctrine. In 1713 he earned his championship title and in the following years he became the juré the Paris guild of watchmakers. After Le Roy was appointed director of the Société des Arts de Genève and 1739, he was appointed official watchmaker (French Watchmaker Ordinaire du Roi ) under Louis XV. appointed. Le Roy operated his shop in the Rue de Harlay on the Île de la Cité in Paris until his death.

Examples of his watches can be found in various museums in the world, such as the Louvre and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

His son Pierre Le Roy led the workshop continued, invented the adjustable weight screws on the balance rim and was also a royal court watchmaker. Another son, Julien- David Le Roy, was a classicist architect and archaeologist and author of Ruines of the plus beaux monuments de la Grèce ( 1758), Histoire de la disposition des formes et que les données à leurs temples chrétiens ont ( 1764) and la Marine of the anciens peuples expliquées, etc. ( 1777). The other two sons were Jean -Baptiste (from 1751 state surveyor of the Paris Academy ) and Charles Le Roy (physician), both for the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers by Denis Diderot and Jean -Baptiste le Rond d' Alembert articles written.