English watchmaker and engineer

The history of the English watchmaker John Harwood starts in a watchmaker studio on the Isle of Man in England. As a soldier during World War 1 John Harwood came to know the shortcomings of the wristwatch. From these experiences, he developed the vision of a new, as reliable as possible wristwatch without a lateral case opening of the control shaft, which he had clearly identified as a weakness of the former wristwatch. Therefore he focused his whole attention on the development of a different, an automatical kind of winding mechanism, which had to find its place in the interior of the watch. An accident gave him the crucial idea …

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