Antoine Favre-Salomon (30 November 1734 – 17 August 1820) was a Swiss

watchmaker A watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches. Since a majority of watches are now factory-made, most modern watchmakers only repair watches. However, originally they were master craftsmen who built watches, including all their par ...

. In 1796, he invented a pocket watch with an embedded musical mechanism. which was later recognised as the first "comb"

music box A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces Musical note, musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder (geometry), cylinder or disc to pluck ...

. One of his surviving music boxes has been displayed at the Shanghai Gallery of Antique Music Boxes and Automata in

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Shanghai Oriental Art Center
"Antique Music Box Gallery."
/ref> and is now in the Reuge museum in Kyoto, Japan.

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Swiss watchmakers (people) 18th-century Swiss inventors 1734 births 1820 deaths {{Switzerland-bio-stub