When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: self winding watches for sale

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. John Harwood (watchmaker) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harwood_(watchmaker)

    Blancpain also made them under licence in 1928 for sale in France and the Perpetual Self-Winding Watch Company manufactured them for sale in North America. The watches were first shown at the Basel Fair in 1926. [4] He set up the Harwood Self-Winding Watch Company in 1928 to market the watches in the UK, but the company failed in September 1931 ...

  3. Automatic watch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_watch

    The earliest reference to self-winding watches is at the end of 1773 when a newspaper reported that Joseph Tlustos had invented a watch that did not need to be wound. [8] But his idea was probably based on the myth of perpetual motion, and it is unlikely that it was a practical solution to the problem of self-winding watches.

  4. Elgin National Watch Company - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_National_Watch_Company

    The company built the Elgin National Watch Company Observatory in 1910 to maintain scientifically precise times in their watches. The company produced many of the self-winding wristwatch movements made in the United States, beginning with the 607 and 618 calibers (which were bumper wind) and the calibers 760 and 761 (30 and 27 jewels respectively).

  5. Fortis Watches - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortis_Watches

    Fortis was founded by Walter Vogt in 1912. Twelve years after its establishment, Vogt set up production with John Harwood, inventor of the automatic wristwatch.In 1926, Fortis released the patented Harwood Automatic, the first self-winding wristwatch, at Baselworld.

  6. Glycine (watch) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycine_(watch)

    Illustration attached to Meylan's automatic module patent [6]. With the original patent for self-winding watches set to expire in the early 1930s, [3] Meylan (founder of Glycine but no longer affiliated with the company) began working on his own self-winding mechanism and formed the company Automatic E.M.S.A. (Eugène Meylan Société Anonyme).

  7. Automatic quartz - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_quartz

    Automatic quartz is a collective term describing watch movements that combine a self-winding rotor mechanism [1] (as used in automatic mechanical watches) to generate electricity with a piezoelectric quartz crystal as its timing element. Such movements aim to provide the advantages of quartz without the inconvenience and environmental impact of ...