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Timeline of a Wristwatch 3 - Timeline Help
Timeline of a wristwatch 3 of 9 from 1831 to 1871 at Timeline Help.
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- 1871 | In Paris Joseph Thaddeus Winnerl constructs his split-seconds chronograph.
Swiss manufacturer Auguste Agassiz starts Longines Watch Company with Ernest Francillon, Henri Raiguel and Florian Morel. Swiss clock maker Antoine LeCoultre founds Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre.
Abraham Louis Breguet patents the Sympathique clock watch.
Swiss watch maker Louis Audemars invents the keyless stem winding and setting mechanism. British Queen Victoria purchases a Breguet wristwatch.
Georges-Auguste Leschot of Swiss manufacturer Vacheron and Constantin builds machine tools for manufacturing wristwatches.
French horologist Adrien Philippe patents his keyless winding mechanism and setting through the crown.
Antoine LeCoultre invents the Millionometer. Adolph Nicole invents the start-stop-and-reset chronograph for a wristwatch, including a reset function.
Antoine LeCoultre invents his keyless crown winding system. Louis-Franois Cartier founds the Cartier Watch Company.
Louis Brandt founds the Omega Watch Company in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
American watchmaker Aaron Lufkin Dennison founds the Waltham Watch Company in Freeport, Maine, making watches with interchangeable parts.
Swiss watchmaker company Tissot is founded.
Swiss watch company Eterna is founded.
Swiss manufacturers Charles-Yvan Robert and Hyppolite Robert of Villeret found Minerva Watch.
Edouard Heuer founds the Heuer watchmaking company in St-Imier, Switzerland. Swiss Observatoire de Neuchâtel issues the first rating certificates for wristwatches.
Georges Favre-Jacot founds Zenith in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Swiss manufacturer Ernest Francillon builds the first keyless hunting-cased pocket-watch.
Patek Philippe & Co. produces the first wristwatch.
Edouard Heuer patents the first crown-winding mechanism for watches.
E. Brown Jewelers in London buys Breguet Company from the descendants of Breguet.
Aaros Dennison of International Watch Company invents a waterproof case. | Timeline of a Wristwatch 3 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9
| Bibliography of Timeline of a Wristwatch 3 Selby, I De (1997). Identifying Wristwatches. Viola, G and Brunner, G (1997). Time in Gold. |
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