Watch Wiki

The Best Watches and Watch Brands

User Tools

Site Tools


1886

1886

  • For the first time watches are awarded the Geneva Seal (also called Geneva hallmark, Poinçon de Genève) by the Geneva test office Bureau Officiel de l'Etat pour le contrôle facultatif of montres de Genève, as a quality seal.
  • The German watch manufacturer Junghans starts the production of pocket watches, but suffers several setbacks at the beginning.
  • Alfred Helwig, the later inventor of the flying tourbillon, is born on 5 July 1886 in Goldbach/Niederlausitz (Germany).

1885 | 1887

1886.txt · Last modified: 02.12.2022 18:48 by 127.0.0.1

Donate Powered by PHP Valid HTML5 Valid CSS Driven by DokuWiki

© Watch Wiki. All texts are protected by copyright. The respective copyright holders are the signatories of the contributions. For details see Impressum. Regarding objections and complaints (copyright and other rights) also see there. Impressum | Privacy Policy | Copyright | About Watch Wiki