Watch History.
In the year 1485, famous artist Leonardo da Vinci sketches a fusee for a clock.
Did anyone know Leonardo da Vinci actually is not an artist? But he is an engineer.
because of this sketches the clock is appear, step by step by the development of human. i call it as tranformation.
1500s : Peter Henlein(Germany) creates the first pocket watch.
Early 1600s : Form watches becoming popular. Cases are shaped like animals and objects. Religious themes are popular, around this time that the fusee was adapted from clocks to watches. In the years 1659 – 1675 : Christian Huygens invents the “Remontoire”.
Remontoire
1687 : Daniel Quare patents the repeating mechanism that uses bells to sound quarter hours and the hours.
mechanism that uses bells to sound quarter hours and the hours.
1704 : Peter and Jacob Debaufre, Nicolas Facio, are the first to use rubies in watch movements.
1750 : Watch makers began using enamel on watch dials.
1759 : Thomas Mudge invents the English lever escapement.
Thomas Mudge invents the English lever escapement.
1775 : Abraham Louis Breguet sets up his own watch making shop in Paris, France.
1780 : Abraham Louis Perrelet invents the self winding movement.
Abraham Louis Perrelet invents the self winding movement.
1786 : Breguet is the first to use guilloche on watch dials.
1791 : J.F. Bautte founded the watch company that would eventually become Girard-Perregaux.
1807 : Thomas Young invents the recording chronograph.
1809 : Luther Goddard of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts is the first watch manufacturer in America.
1820 : Thomas Prest registers a patent for the self winding watch.
1833 : Antoine LeCoultre starts his own watchmaking business which later become Jaeger-LeCoultre.
1837 : First Tiffany store opens.
1843: Adrien Philippe develops a watch with winding and setting through the crown.
1844 : The start, stop, and reset chronograph is invented by Adolph Nicole.
1844 : Antoine LeCoultre invents the millionometre.
1848 : Louis Brandt opens his own workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds which eventually became the Omega Watch Company.
1853 : Tissot makes the first dual time zone watch.
1858 : Minerva is founded.
1860 : Heuer is founded.
1865 : Zenith founded.
1881 : Movado founded.
1884 : Greenwich, England is officially named the zero meridian and used as the world wide recognized basis of time zones.
1886 : Geneva Seal established.
1894 : Universal Geneve established.
1905 : Hans Wilsdorf starts the Rolex Watch Company.
1914 : Eterna introduces the first wristwatch with an alarm.
1918 : Japan : Shakosha Watch Company opened. This would become Citizen in 1931.
1923 : John Harwood is the first to mass produce a self winding wristwatch.
1924 : Tokyo : Seiko brand name is launched by Kinttaro Hattori.
1926 : Rolex introduces the first waterproof case called the “Oyster”.
I need to get a full history about your watches. because i am doing a project about watches so i think you can help me.