The Brocots I mportant family of clock makers including Louis Gabriel Brocot, the founder of the firm in 1813. He set up his workshop 24 rue Bourtibourg in Paris. He specialised in the production of "mouvements de Paris", made from blancs bought from Honore Pons in Saint Nicolas d'Aliermont. Although the "mouvements de Paris", for mantel clocks, produced by Brocot, were already considered as among the best on the market, Brocot undertook to improve them with a spring suspension in place of the traditional silk suspension and a rake striking work in place of the system with locking plate, then used by the other makers. He took a patent for this new type of movement on 5 May 1826 under No. 2903. With his sons Antoine Gabriel, born on 16 August 1814, Alexandre Gustave, born on 20 July 1817, Louis Achille, born on 20 July 1817 and Gustave Amedee, born 23 February 1824, did not become a watchmaker, he left the rue Bourtibourg in 1830 for a fine and large house at 15 rue cl' Orleans (now 15 rue Chariot). Antoine Gabriel Brocot, worked with his father and his brother until he married Marie Julienne Desiree Bois on 11 September 1845. They set up their shop at 6 rue des Enfants Rouges. He specialised in the production of spare parts which were not supplied with the blancs, such as escapements, suspensions, elements for perpetual calendars etc. Louis Achille Brocot (1817-1878) He worked with his father in the workshop of the rue d'Orleans. On 15 September 1843 he married Cyprienne-Sophie Thabourin. At the Exhibition of 1844, he was invited by the English clock makers to present his movements in England. His journey in London in 1645 was a great success. It was the beginning of impor tant commercial relations with England. On 3 March 1847 he took his first patent under No. 5275, for a pendulum followed by several others, concerning escapements, calendar works, centre seconds, alarm, suspension etc. For more details on the Brocot family, refer to Le Brocot, by Richard Chavigny, Antoine Simonin Edition 1991.