8.10.2010

The feelings of classic pocket watch

For the current tab people, the pocket watch is not only important because it witnessed the cultural development of European watchmaking, while their own side is a mirror reflecting the history and reality.

According to historical records, watch the birth of time about 600 years ago, and the emergence of pocket watch is in the 17 century. At the time of Britain, France, Germany, earlier Zhizao watch these countries, almost all of the clock tower installed in the church or above, while the leverage put new wheels and spring ring bodies such as the advent of watch technology for watches into people's pockets to create the conditions, this is the first pocket watch. Of the 19th century, pocket watch manufacturing technology has reached a very high level. The tabulation process was entirely manual, from the K gold case of build, delicate carvings, painted enamel firing into each gear and screw grinding all go through the manual. A work stress, functional complex pocket watches, often require years to complete production.


Longines watch

Elegant classic pocket watch
All in all, the Swiss watchmaker is because in the watch area to master advanced technologies (such as the leading devices and escapement gear), Switzerland, the country will be in the successive two centuries the center of the world watch industry. Many of the early Swiss watchmaking craftsmanship, and now as the years passing and 11 lost, and only handed down these exquisite pocket watch, also to the people about the past that glorious history. In the last year in the Louvre Salle de La Chapelle Breguet retrospective held in the chapel by Abraham Louis Breguet watchmakers personally completed rounds of the year antique pocket watch, was presented as a rarity in the world in front of watch fan. From these set of their craft and avant-garde aesthetic of the watch in one paragraph, we can glimpse the European watchmaking art of the true face of the peak period, and since the beginning of the French Revolution to the end of the Napoleonic era to govern such a dynamic history is full of variables. In this year, organized by the Berne Museum of History, "Albert Einstein" China tour, the one completed in 1943 Longines watch the same show Einstein the most productive life sciences giants, most notably Bearing in mind the time.


Albert Einstein
For the current tab people, the pocket watch is not only important because it witnessed the cultural development of European watchmaking, while their own side is a mirror reflecting the history and reality. For example, in plot 1907, the museum collection of Jaeger-Le Coultre watch in ultra-thin sword-shaped, we can see from the Art Nouveau era of the various effects. Teachers in the tab in the tab-completion of the IWC teacher Joseph Pallweber open face pocket watch, hunter pocket watch and digital watch, then reflects the rapid expansion of European colonialism, the history segment. For watch lovers present, there is little known in the loss to those between the stories, just watch it the greatest charm.

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