🏭 Lucien Maurice Eyquem (1858–1932) was a French industrialist and inventor who founded his company in 1886.

Eyquem manufactured a range of rotary piston and turbine water meters.

Historical advertising shows:

Eyquem actively promoting and manufactured water meters to reduce water waste in Paris advertising already by the 1890s.

Maurice Eyquem was among the early commercial water‑meter manufacturers in France, right at the time meters were being adopted.

🕰️ ~1890 → 1930s - Advertising: 1895–1898 Paris posters

- Model 1904 as pictured above

- Eyquem was very much part of the Paris metering industry cluster

- Player in changing flat‑rate water bills to metered billing systems

In the 1930's the company gradually shifted toward automotive components.

Maurice Eyquem was an early French water‑meter manufacturer, active from the late 19th century, producing some of the earliest domestic water‑meter designs used in Paris. The HWM-Museum has in its collection a rare 1904 -1" flanged meter and a 1910 -3/4" Maurice Eyquem sample cutaway water meter (pictured).