Peter Kinzing

Kinzing was born in Neuwied, Germany, and is supposed to have made his first pendulum clock at the age of ten.

He began work with the German ébéniste David Roentgen circa 1770; Roentgen made the cases, and Kinzing produced the complicated mechanisms with automatic musical instruments, especially organs und dulcimers, a few carillons are also known of.

Kinzing was called horloger de la reine (Clockmaker to the Queen).

Peter Kinzing is also known to have produced at least 2 equation month going regulators also in obelisk case, one of which is still situated in the Leipzig town hall.

Kinzing was among the first German clockmakers to make precision regulators with equation movements in the contemporary French style.

Automaton of a dulcimer player made by Kinzing in 1784, on display at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers .