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A compilation of references, information and expertise. Discover key dates, legendary timepieces, a glossary of watchmaking terms, museums, and the watchmakers who helped shape the history of time measurement.

Watches

Legendary watches

Reverso

Jaeger-LeCoultre - 1931

Calatrava

Patek Philippe - 1932

Portuguese

IWC - 1938

Radiomir

Panerai - 1938

Fifty Fathoms

Blancpain - 1953

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Complication watches

From the alarm watch to the perpetual calendar, the world of complication watches.

Precious watches

The history of the jewellery watch, from the 16th century to today.

Mechanical watches

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Quartz Watches

History: from the electric watch to quartz

Emblematic Models

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History of watchmaking

History

Machine for cutting the square upper pivots of barrel-arbors

1839

History: Mechanised production: Vacheron & Constantin developed a full set of machine tools for manufacturing its watches.Interchangeable parts: the first pantograph, by Georges-Auguste...

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Famous watchmakers

Tycho Brahé

Danish astronomer. Protégé of the king of Denmark Frederick II then of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. Author of a theory of the movement of the planets, which compromised between the theses of Ptolemy and Copernicus: the Sun turns around the unmoving Earth and the...

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