Timeline of a Wristwatch 1 - Timeline Help

Timeline of a wristwatch part 1 of 9 from 1485 to 1686 at Timeline Help. This is the history of the watch worn on the wrist.

Everybody have a little clock that tells the time at first glance. Ever wondered how the mechanism was invented, how were they made, when and where? Answers on all these questions on the following pages.

Due to the fact that the neat mechanisms for the early clocks centuries ago were the fundaments of the watches we wear today, I also grouped those relevant and related facts and data in my timeline of a wristwatch.

- 1485 - 1524 - 1517 - 1544 - 1554 - 1565 - 1582 - 1600s - 1601 - 1632 - 1635 - 1658 - 1675 - 1680 - 1685 - 1686

Leonardo da Vinci makes a sketch of a mainspring for clocks. German locksmith Peter Henlein invents the first pocket watch. Watchmakers construct smaller wrist watches due to the invention of the mainspring. The first watch and clockmakers guild is founded in Paris. French Thomas Bayard becomes the first official Swiss watchmaker. The German watch and clockmakers guild is founded in Nuremberg, Germany. Italian Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci presents watchmaking techniques to the Emperor of China in the Portuguese trading post Macau in Southern China. Watches with decorated cases and religious ornaments are popular jewellery pieces. The Swiss guild of watch and clockmakers, the Genevan Corporation of Watchmakers is founded. French Jean Toutin develops the enamel painting technique for decorating dials and cases. The spirally grooved, conical pulley and chain arrangement for counteracting the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring, called a fusee, is used in watches. English polymath Robert Hooke invents the balance spring or hairspring to keep time with reasonable accuracy. Dutch physicist Christian Huygens invents the spiral balance spring, a winding mechanism to regulate the force that drives the timekeeping mechanism of a clock, called the remontoire. English horologist Daniel Quare invents a repeating pocket watch mechanism that sounds quarter hours and the hours. Many French watchmakers emigrate to the U.K. and Switzerland. English horologist Edward Barlow patents his mechanism for pulling and repeating pocket watches and clocks.

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Bibliography of the Timeline of a Wristwatch 1

Clutton, C and Daniels, D (1979). A Complete History.
Zagoory, J and Chan, H (1985). Time to Watch as Art.
Bruton, E (1989). History of Clocks and Watches.
Hampel, H (1997). Automatic Wristwatches From Switzerland. Self-Winding.

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