From the Archive
Chronology, 1911 to 2026
A hundred and fifteen years, compiled from the Register of Provenance, the minutes of the Council and the house’s letter books. Where the three disagree, the Register is preferred.
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1911
The Association is constituted
Eleven makers sign the Articles in Tobias Rosen’s shop on 14 March. Tobias Rosen is elected President. The House is bought in the autumn.
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1913
The Copyist
The first piece the Association makes together. It writes Article I.
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1922
The Lark Lantern
Anselm Kroll’s singing bird, four years in the making.
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1931
The Sleeping Hound; Aske Place
Begun in the winter of 1929–30, the first winter of the Depression, to keep the makers at the bench. The lane is named for Euphemia Aske.
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1932
Ada Rosen elected President
The founder’s daughter. She keeps the house open through the Depression, chiefly on repair work and the occasional commission.
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1946
The reserve
Article VIII adopted. The house’s reserve has met its test, to service every piece for twenty-five years without another sale, every year since.
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1958
The Correspondent
Made to mark the house’s first year without an unanswered letter.
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1960
The contested election
Linus Rosen is elected President over his cousin Hesper Rosen, twenty-two votes to nineteen. The only contested election in the house’s history.
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1965
An apprentice
Eldon Rosen, sixteen, enters the movement shop.
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1979
The first Penfield
Eldon Rosen’s tone cabinet elects him an Associate. 1,104 are made. The heritage collection closes with it.
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1988
Eldon Rosen elected President
On the retirement of his father. Re-elected unopposed in 1995, 2002, 2009, 2016 and 2023.
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1993
Penfield Mk II
The contact band, and the Gravity family of registers.
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1998
Nexus-1
The first Nexus study, a hand, is finished after two years.
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1998
The second Register
A digital copy of the Register of Provenance is begun and checked against the bound volumes every night.
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2004
Zürich
A provenance office and small salon open a short walk from the Turing Registry, founded the year before.
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2006
Penfield Mk III
The confirmation key. Ottilie Brandvold becomes Master of the Atelier.
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2008
The Owl is commissioned
3 March.
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2016
Nexus-5
The fifth and last study is completed. It has not left the House.
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2017
Rachael Rosen joins the house
She is elected to the Court of Directors in 2021.
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2019
The Owl; the Works
The Owl is completed on 2 October. The Works open at Everett to build the Nexus-6.
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2021
The Nexus-6 is licensed
Turing Registry filing TR-09911, 30 March. The first units leave Everett in June.
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2023
The Penfield Works
Built under Constance Ebbing in the old net loft at Everett, with nine tuning rooms, to make the Mk IV.
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2024
Two licenses and a recall
The Penfield Mk IV is licensed on 2 April and the Owl on 20 June, at the house’s request. Six Nexus-6 units are reported outside their licensed domain on 12 November. The line is recalled on 1 December.
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2025
The Recall Office; the photograph
The Works become the Recall Office in January. On 14 April the house issues its statement on the owl photograph.
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2026
The suspension
The Owl’s license is renewed on 20 June. The Penfield Mk IV is suspended on 3 July, pending a dosage audit.
The chronology records what the house made, decided and was told. It does not record everything the house knows. Questions about any entry may be put to the Archive at provenance@rosenassociation.org.