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Watches in History
There are a lot of different styles of gents watches on the market today. In this article we will be reviewing a couple of different ones that have a rich history in the watch world. The watches that we will be talking about are Michel Jordi watches, Omega watches, Harry Winston watches, and the ever famous Rolex watch.

The first watch that we are going to be talking about today is the Michel Jordi watch. In 2004 Michel Jordi created the first ever twist lock system watch. This watch was the only one of its kind that opened up like a fan.

The next watch that we are going to discuss is the ever popular Omega brand watch. There are two reasons that this particular watch company has imprinted itself into watch history, the first reason being that it was the official timepiece of the 1931 Los Angeles Olympic Games. The second reason that this watch has made such a huge impact on watch history and the history of the world is that on the first landing of the 1969 moon landing this watch was worn.

Harry Winston watches is our next topic of discussion in today’s article. These watches made an impact on watch making history when their “Opus V” series became famous for being hand crafted and precisely timed by now famous watchmakers FP Journe and Greubel-Forsey et al. These watches sell for around two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Now onto one of the most famous watches in all of history, the Rolex watch. This company which began in 1905 by Hans Wilsdorf and W Davis established their watch company called Wilsdorf and Davis. This company which in 1908 became Rolex was the first wrist watch company or pocket watch company to make a truly water proof watch, it is the “Oyster”. Rolex was also the first company to come out with an automatic date watch called the “Date just”, and the fist dive watch called the “submariner”.

All of the above mentioned watches are just famous examples of key players in wrist watch history. This is not to say that there are literally thousands of other watches and watchmakers who in some form or fashion have played important roles in making wrist watches the way that we see them today

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Watch timeline

1485-Da vinci draws a Mainspring

 1505-1511-somewhere in here no one is for sure Peter Henlien created the first mobile watch,”The watch was first created in the 16th century, initially in spherical (Pomander) or cylindrical cases, when the spring driven clock was invented. These watches were at first quite big and boxy and were worn around the neck. It was not for another century that it became common to wear a watch in a pocket”

1780-Abraham Louis Breguet invents a self-winding movement

1838-Audemars invents stem winding and setting mechanism

Abraham Louis Breguet-Swiss clock maker who invented or developed all of the following between the years of 1775-1821: many different methods on the tourbillon, re-winding mechanisms,the overcoil.Improved the automatic rotor or so-called perpetual watch.the gong-spring for repetition watches,improvement of the anchor escapement. Development of a small clock showing the time equation, the “pare-chute”,retrograde display mechanism,the Breguet spiral (flat spiral) the sympathetic pendulum,the tact watch.the tourbillon escapement,the “encreur” chronograph.

He was a Swiss clockmaker, who had his shop in Paris. He studied watchmaking in France and in England and invented different escapement methods(see above paragraph). In 1775 he founded the Breguet watchmaking firm in the Île de la Cité in Paris. He met Abraham Louis Perrelet in Switzerland and became a Master Clockmaker in 1784. A Member of the Board of Longitude in 1814. Appointed to the Board of Longitude and as chronometer-maker to the navy, he entered the French Academy of Sciences and received the Legion of Honour from the hands of Louis XVIII. In 1815 he gained an official appointment with the French Navy. Member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1816, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1819. He died in Paris in 1823.

Early enthusiasts of Breguet’s watchmaking were also Louis XVI and his Queen, Marie-Antoinette. It was one of his pocket watches called “The watch of Marie-Antoniette” which he produced for the Queen and had the most mechanical complications at that period. It was finished 4 years after Breguet’s death. Breguet designed his most remarkable piece, anticipating the wristwatch by two centuries for Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples, in 1810. Honours saluted his enormous contribution to horology. Each watch from his workshops demonstrated the latest horological improvements in an original movement, mostly fitted with lever or ruby-cylinder escapements that he perfected. Breguet took refuge in Switzerland from the excesses of the French Revolution. He returned to Paris overflowing with the ideas that produced the Breguet balance-spring, his first carriage clock (sold to Bonaparte), the sympathique clock and its dependent watch, the tact watch, and finally the tourbillon, patented in 1801.

Apart from the very start of his career, Abraham-Louis Breguet almost always used Lépine calibres, which he transformed. His watches and clocks are widely regarded as some of the most beautiful and technically-accomplished.