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Timeline of a Wristwatch 2 - Timeline Help
Timeline of a Wristwatch 2 of 9 from 1704 to 1830 at Timeline Help.
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- 1830 | Swiss mathematician Nicolas Fatio de Duillier patents the use of jewels as wheel bearings in mechanical watches.
Samuel Watson invents the five-minute repeater.
English clockmaker George Graham invents the dead-beat escapement.
George Graham invents the cylinder escapement.
Watchmakers start decorating clocks with an enamel technique.
French watchmaker Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais invents the escape mechanism for compact watches, including a ring-watch for mistress Madame de Pompadour of Louis XV.
Vacheron Constantin founded in Geneva by Jean-Marc Vacheron and Francois Constantin.
English horologist Thomas Mudge invents the lever escapement.
The Swiss watch shop opens its doors in Zurich, Switzerland.
Abraham Louis Breguet founds the Breguet watchmaking shop in the Île de la Cité in Paris, France.
Jean Antoine Lépine invents the virgule escapement.
Genevan watchmaker Jean-Moïse Pouzait invents the independent sweep seconds mechanism.
Abraham Louis Breguet developes the Perpétuelle, the first a self-winding watch. Much more on him in this Timeline of a Wristwatch 2 and the next pages.
Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Perrelet invents a self-winding movement for a watch.
English watchmaker Thomas Earnshaw patents the pocket spring detent chronometer escapement.
First watches with the guilloché engraving dials appear.
Abraham Louis Breguet invents the key which prevents a watch from being wound in the wrong direction, called the Breguet Key.
Abraham Louis Breguet invents the anti-shock device Pare-Chute.
Swiss watchmaker Jean-Francois Bautte founds his manufacturing company, that later becomes the Girard-Perregaux.
Abraham Louis Breguet presents the Souscription - subscription watch, it regulates time in a special recess.
Abraham Louis Breguet presents invents the Sympathique clock and watch set.
Breguet presents the Tact watch, it shows the time by touch.
Breguet patents his Tourbillon Regulator.
Luther Goddard of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts becomes the first watch manufacturer of the U.S.
Breguet makes a wristwatch for the Queen of Naples.
First watches with off-centre hour ring dials.
Thomas Prest patents the self winding watch.
French watchmaker Nicolas Rieussec patents the seconds chronograph.
Breguet designs the first keyless winding watch. | Timeline of a Wristwatch 2 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
| Bibliography of the Timeline of a Wristwatch 2 Naas, R and Childers, C (1999). Master Wristwatches History. |
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