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Gaston creates the first wristwatch for pilots. Wilsdorf & Davis renamed The Rolex Watch Company.
Omega produces special pilot watches for the British Royal Airforce. Cartier creates the Tank watch.
Omega constructs special watches for the U.S.
Audemars presents the smallest repeater watch. Tag Heuer watches are used as timekeepers at the Olympics in Antwerp, Paris and Amsterdam.
The hour-angle pilot watch to determine longitude, is invented.
English watchmaker John Harwood invents a water-resistant wristwatch. Breitling builds the first independent chronograph push device. Harwood invents an automatic wrist watch. Harwood produces self-winding watches.
Patek Philippe creates the first perpetual calendar wristwatch.
Rolex launches the Oyster, the first truly water-resistant case and crown.
Patek Philippe makes the Packard, world's most complicated watch. Warren Marrison and J.W. Horton invent the first quartz clock.
Eterna launches an eight-day alarm wristwatch. Tissot produces the first anti-magnetic watch. LeCoultre's Jean-Louis Reutter invents Atmos, a perpetual clock. LeCoultre presents the smallest device, the 101 Calibre.
The first known tourbillon wristwatch.
Shokosha Watch renamed Citizen. Rolex introduces the waterproof and perpetually self-winding Auto Rotor. Italian Louis Cottier creates World Time wristwatch with rectangular movement. Rolex Perpetual, the first automatic wristwatch, the rotor swings in a complete circle.
Jaeger-LeCoultre presents the Reverso. Longines creates the Lindbergh Aviator.
Ingersoll makes the first watch for children featuring Mickey Mouse. Nivarox compensating balance-spring and Nivaflex mainspring introduced. Longines is official timekeeper at the Brazilian Grand Prix. Patek Philippe presents the Calatrava. Breitling patents the push-button chronograph. Porte-Echappement Universel invents a shock absorption system, the Incabloc.
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Bibliography of Timeline of a Wristwatch 5
Wristwatches, Armbanduhren, Montres-bracelets (2003).
Kahlert, H, (2004). History Of A Century's Development.
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