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Timeline of a Wristwatch 4 - Timeline Help
Timeline of a wristwatch 4 of 9 from 1875 to 1914 at Timeline Help.
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- 1914 | Joseph Bulova founds the Bulova Watch Company in New York.
Charles-Auguste Paillard invents the palladium balance-spring.
Swiss horlogist François Borgel invents the first water-resistant watch case.
Girard-Perregaux produces wrist-chronometers for the German Navy.
Swiss watchmaker Achille Ditisheim founds Movado.
Japanese Kintaro Hattori founds Seiko.
Edouard Heuer patents its first chronograph. More on Heuer after this Timeline of a wristwatch 4.
Léon Breitling founds Breitling in Switzerland.
Cartier launches its first ladies wristwatches with diamond and gold bracelets.
The Longines winged hourglass is trademarked.
The Voirol Frères patent their winding mechanism with hand-setting button on the side for wristwatches.
Le Roy et Fils patents a keyless mechanism.
First minute repeater wristwatch.
Numa Emile Descombes and Ulysse Georges Perret found Universal Geneve.
Seiko starts manufacturing kits Fob watches.
Omega Watch receives the Grand Prix at the Paris World Fair.
Longines receives the Grand Prix at the Paris Universal Fair.
Omega produces of special women’s wristwatches.
Charles Didisheim patents a wristwatch.
Dimier Frères and Co patents their strap watch.
Wristwatches are army equipment during the Boer War.
Cartier designs the Santos-Dumont.
Schild Frères patents a wristwatch case.
Grumbach patents an improved wristwatch.
Swiss watch manufacturer Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis found the Rolex Company.
The expandable flexible bracelet is invented.
LeCoultre creates the thinnest pocket watch.
Longines begins to produce wristwatches.
Louis Cartier patents the deployant folding clasp.
Movado receives Grand Prix Exhibitions Awards in Brussels, Paris and Rio de Janeiro.
The School of Horology awards Rolex for its first wrist Chronometer.
Shokosha company founded, later called Citizen Watch.
Longines presents the first automatic wrist timekeeping device.
First Movado army wristwatch, glass protected by a grid.
Seiko presents a wristwatch.
First alarm wristwatch by Eterna.
Class A Certificate of Precision for Rolex. | Timeline of a Wristwatch 4 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9
| Bibliography of Timeline of a Wristwatch 4 Lang, G R and Meis, R (1997). To Stop Time.
Edwards, F (1998). Connoisseur's Guide.
Pannier, R (2001). Collectible Wrist Watches.
Faber, E, Unger, S and Blauer, E (2000). American Watches Five Decades of Style and Design. |
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