![]() ![]() It is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.ġ930: Breitling Watch Company patents the first stopwatch.ġ957: America's Hamilton Watch Company produces the first successful electric watch.ġ960: Bulova Watch Company builds the Accutron tuning fork watch, which uses an inch-long tuning fork instead of an escapement to power the oscillating circuit.ġ962: Rado becomes known as originator of the scratch-proof watch with the release of the DiaStar I, made of hard metal.ġ963: Seiko develops quartz-crystal, battery-powered chronometers.ġ969: Astronaut Neil Armstrong wears an Omega Speedmaster on his spaceflight to the moon.ġ979: The Delirium is introduced as the thinnest watch in the world, measuring 1.98 mm.ġ989: Patek Philippe creates the Calibre 89 to celebrate its 150th anniversary. Shortly after, Longines and Lindbergh develop the Lindbergh Hour Angle watch.ġ929: Antoine LeCoultre unveils for the world the smallest mechanical watch movement, the Caliber 101. The original watch is on display at the Paris Air Museum next to the 1908 Demoiselle, the last plane Santos-Dumont built.ġ914: By the end of World War I, wearing a wristwatch is the preferable form of timekeeping.ġ927: Charles Lindbergh completes the first transatlantic solo flight, from New York to Paris, in 33 hours and 30 minutes while wearing a wristwatch by Longines, the official timekeeper of this historic journey. This is the birth of the era of the chronograph, or stopwatch.ġ830: Breguet introduces watches equipped with a button for setting the time.ġ904: Santos-Dumont orders wristwatch from Louis Cartier. The Birth of Wrist Watch (1812~2000) Queen of Naples (Caroline Murat)ġ812: Breguet creates a watch to fit on a wrist (the first wristwatch), for Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples.ġ820: The keyless clock emerges, doing away with the need to use a key for winding or setting.ġ822: Nicolas Rieussec files a patent for a "timekeeper or device to measure the distance traveled, called a seconds chronograph". The Lepine calibre is still in use today.ġ795: Abraham-Louis Breguet invents the tourbillon escapement. Also, Jean-Antoine Lepine creates a thinner movement, called the Lepine calibre, enabling watchmakers to make flatter watches that can be carried in "fob" pockets to conceal them from potential thieves. ![]() The watch, crafted in bronze, depicts Saint George slaying a dragon on the front and the Crucifixion on the back.ġ656: The first pendulum clock is patented by Christian Huygens.ġ680: The first minute hands are added to clocks.ġ690: The second hand makes its first appearance on clocks, though the novel idea does not become common practice.ġ700: Clock ownership becomes widespread manufacturers design clocks in all sizes and styles: ranging from grandfather type clocks, called 'longcases', to decorative table clocks adorned with enamel paintings.ġ715: Englishman George Graham invents the deadbeat escapement, a new type of mechanical escapement that offers greater precision.ġ770: Abraham-Louis Perrelet invents a self-winding mechanism. Geneva's jewelers are forced to learn another craft and are taught the art of watchmaking by refugees from France and Italy.ġ574: The first known pocket watch is created, but the inventor remains unknown. Reformer John Calvin of Geneva bans people from wearing jewelry, altering the future of Switzerland. An astronomical clock is introduced by Jacopo di Dondi in Padua in 1334 another clock, with a mechanism that strikes a bell to mark the hours, is completed in 1335 in Milan and a third, which tracks hours, the sunrise, and the days of the month, is built by Giovanni de Dondi in Pavia in 1364.ġ370: The first mechanical striking clocks appear in France and England.ġ400: Blacksmiths begin making clocks with loud bells in them to ring the hours, for use in the hallways of large mansions.ġ6th Century: Iron, a key element in clock design, is pushed aside in favor of brass, bronze, and silver development of spring-powered clocks.ġ541: The Swiss watch industry is born. ![]() The clock was driven by the slow pull of a falling weight, basically like a very big hour hand.ġ300–1364: Three mechanical clocks are built to be displayed in public areas in Italy. An Italian monk designed the first mechanical clock. 1275: The mechanical clock is invented in England. ![]()
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