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10 WA

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10 WA Calibre 10 WA is a modular alarm movement from Wittnauer produced in the 1950's. Unlike integrated alarm movements from Vulcain and Jaeger-LeCoultre, Wittnauer added an alarm module to an existing movement, the Longines-based Cal. 10. The Wittnauer alarm calibre is notable for its unique features

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24 hour dial

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24 hour dial A 24 hour dial is one with markings on a scale of 24 hours rather than the typical 12. Markings and orientation Most 24 hour watches do not feature 24 numbered labels, since this would be very cramped. Rather, they alternate even numbers and odd markers at most. This is typical of 12 hour watches as well, with the

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904L

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904L 904L is a special grade of stainless steel used by Rolex under the trademark name, Oystersteel. Most watches use “surgical grade” 316L stainless steel, but Rolex uses the higher-cost low-carbon 904L alloy. This alloy contains nickel, molybdenum, and copper and is highly resistant to corrosion. The high chrome content allows it to be polished to a high sheen.

1629

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:42+00:00

1629 * The famous Dutch astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and watchmaker Christiaan Huygens is born on 14 April in The Hague. <- 1628 | 1630 -> year

1656

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:42+00:00

1656 * The great Dutch astronomer, mathematician, physicist and watchmaker Christiaan Huygens end of 1656 succeeds in the construction of the first pendulum watch. <- 1655 | 1657 -> year

1673

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:42+00:00

1673 * The famous English clockmaker George Graham is born on July 7 in Horsgill (Cumberland, England). * Christiaan Huygens, founding member of the French Academy of Sciences, publishes his famous work Horologium Oscillatorium in Paris. <- 1672 | 1674 -> year

1693

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:42+00:00

1693 * Jehan-Jacques Blancpain is born on March 11. He founds the firm Blancpain, which until 1932, when Frederic Emile Blancpain dies at the age of 69 years, is owned by the family and is revived 1981 by Jean-Claude Biver and Jacques Piguet. <- 1692 | 1694 -> year

1695

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1695 * The famous Dutch astronomer, mathematician, physicist and watchmaker Christiaan Huygens dies on July 9 in The Hague. <- 1694 | 1696 -> year

1705

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1705 * Daniel Jean Richard moves from La Sagne to Le Locle and founds the watch industry in the Swiss canton Neuchâtel as one of today's most important economic sectors of the country. In his memory, a monument was built in Le Locle. <- 1704 | 1706 -> year

1720

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1720 * French watchmaker Jean-Antoine Lépine is born. Through his major inventions he contributed significantly to the improvement of the pocket watch. <- 1719 | 1721 -> year

1721

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1721 * The famous watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz is born in Villeret on July 28. He becomes a brilliant designer of clocks and automata (the so-called androids). <- 1720 | 1722 -> year

1729

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1729 * Abraham-Louis Perrelet, a Swiss watchmaker and the inventor of the automatic winding for pocket watches, is born on January 9 in Le Locle. <- 1728 | 1730 -> year

1735

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1735 * Jehan-Jacques Blancpain founds the firm Blancpain, which until 1932, when Frederic Emile Blancpain dies at the age of 69 years, is owned by the family and is revived 1981 by Jean-Claude Biver and Jacques Piguet. <- 1734 | 1736 -> year

1736

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1736 * The famous English watchmaker John Arnold is born, probably in Bodmin, Cornwall. <- 1735 | 1737 -> year

1747

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1747 * Abraham-Louis Breguet, the most important watch maker and inventor in the history of time measurement, is born on 10 January in the Swiss town Neuchâtel (German Neuenburg, formerly Neufchâtel), which then belongs to the Kingdom of Prussia. <- 1746 | 1748 -> year

1751

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1751 * British watchmaker George Graham dies. He is considered to be one of the greatest watchmakers of all time, creating the Graham escapement and cylinder escapement. <- 1750 | 1752 -> year

1755

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1755 * Jean-Marc Vacheron founds an own watch workshop in the Geneva district of Saint Gervais. This is the beginning of the famous watch manufacturer Vacheron Constantin, the oldest continuously active watch manufacturer in the world. <- 1754 | 1756 -> year

1767

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1767 * Margrave Carl Friedrich of Baden sets the beginning of a long tradition of watch and jewelery production by founding a watch manufacturing in an orphanage in Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg. Today the region Pforzheim is one of the most important in this industry in Germany.

1770

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1770 * Jean-Antoine Lépine invents the Lépine caliber named after him. * The watchmaker Ferdinand Berthoud is awarded the title of “Clockmaker and Mechanic by appointment to the French King and Navy”. In 2013 the Chopard Group announces the watch brand La Chronométrie Ferdinand Berthoud in honor of Berthoud. <- 1769 | 1771 -> year

1772

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1772 * The Swiss watch maker and watch merchant Jean-Francois Bautte is born on 26th March in Geneva as son of the enameller Abraham Bautte and his wife Marie-Anne. <- 1771 | 1773 -> year

1775

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:43+00:00

1775 * The famous watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet founds his first watch workshop in Paris. <- 1774 | 1776 -> year

1776

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-11-15T17:03:30+00:00

1776 * Danish watchmaker and chronometer maker Urban Jürgensen is born in Copenhagen on August 5. <- 1775 | 1777 -> jahr

1782

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-27T13:23:39+00:00

1782 * John Arnold applies the cylindrical balance spring for patent. It makes a watch more isochronous thanks to two Phillips terminal curves. <- 1781 | 1783 -> year

1783

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1783 * Abraham-Louis Breguet creates the traditional blued steel hands with openworked “pomme” ring tips, which later become known as Breguet hands and characteristic of the brand's classic models. <- 1782 | 1784 -> year

1785

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1785 * Abraham-Louis Breguet is appointed as Court Supplier of King Louis XVI. * Johann Christian Friedrich Gutkaes, the later teacher of Ferdinand Adolph Lange, is born on 16 June. <- 1784 | 1786 -> year

1791

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:44+00:00

1791 * The talented 19-year-old Geneva watchmaker Jean-Francois Bautte begins to sign his first watches. The company Bautte merges with the manufacture Girard-Perregaux in 1906, and this from then on counts the year 1791 as the beginning of its own company history. <- 1790 | 1792 -> year

1793

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:44+00:00

1793 * The Fabrique d'Horlogerie de Fontainemelon (FHF) is founded in Fontainemelon by Isaac and David Benguerel together with Julien and François Humbert-Droz under the name “Benguerel & Humbert. It is the first raw movement manufacturer of the world. * During the French Revolution it is attempted to introduce the

1795

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:44+00:00

1795 * The famous watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet invents a new type by balance spring with curved up overcoil the Breguet hairspring, named after him. <- 1794 | 1796 -> year

1799

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:44+00:00

1799 * The English watchmaker John Arnold dies in London. * The Austrian watchmaker and manufacturer of chronometers, Joseph Thaddäus Winnerl, is born on 25 January in Mureg/Styria. <- 1798 | 1800 -> year

1801

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:44+00:00

1801 * One of the most important inventions of Abraham-Louis Breguet, the tourbillon, is patented. <- 1800 | 1802 -> year

1803

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:44+00:00

1803 * Charles Antoine LeCoultre, co-founder of the famous watch manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre, is born on April 16. <- 1802 | 1804 -> year

1804

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:44+00:00

1804 * The Swiss watchmaker Charles Félicien Tissot, later founder of the company Tissot, is born. <- 1803 | 1805 -> year

1805

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1805 * The Swiss watchmaker, entrepreneur and art collector Heinrich Moser is born on December 12 in Schaffhausen. He founds 1828 in St. Petersburg the the watch trading company H. Moser & Co. <- 1804 | 1806 -> year

1812

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:44+00:00

1812 * Antoine Norbert de Patek Prawdzic is born. He founds the watch manufacture Patek, Czapek & Co., which later becomes the renowned watch manufacturer Patek Philippe. <- 1811 | 1813 -> year

1813

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1813 * Georg Friedrich Roskopf is born on March 15 in Niederweiler near Lörrach. <- 1812 | 1814 -> year

1814

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:44+00:00

1814 * The well-known watchmaker Jean-Antoine Lépine dies in Paris. <- 1813 | 1815 -> year

1815

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:44+00:00

1815 * The later partner in the famous watch company Patek Philippe, Jean-Adrien Philippe, is born in Bazoche-Guet (France) as the son of a watchmaker. * Ferdinand Adolph Lange, the later founder of A. Lange & Söhne, is born on 18 February in Dresden as son of the gunsmith Samuel Lange. * On 6 October, the Dresden watchmaker

1816

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:44+00:00

1816 * In Fontainemelon (Swiss Canton Neuchâtel), the Fabrique d'Horlogerie de Fontainemelon (FHF) takes up the industrial production of watch movements. <- 1815 | 1817 -> year

1819

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:44+00:00

1819 * Jacques Barthélemy Vacheron picks up the son of a cloth merchant friend, Francois Constantin, as a partner to support the distribution of watches, and the company is now called Vacheron & Constantin. <- 1818 | 1820 -> year

1821

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1821 * Nicolas Rieussec, a French watchmaker, developes a “time recorder” with ink for King Louis Philippe, by which the times of individual horses can be stopped at horse racing. The model Star Nicolas Rieussec Monopusher Chronograph launched by Montblanc in 2008 uses this principle of rotating discs again.

1823

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1823 * Erhard Junghans, the co-founder of Junghans and Tobler (later Junghans) is born on 1 January 1823 in Zell am Harmersbach (in the Black Forest, Germany). * The great watchmaker and inventor Abraham-Louis Breguet dies on 17 September 1823 in Paris. <- 1822 | 1824 -> year

1826

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1826 * Abraham-Louis Perrelet, a Swiss watchmaker and the inventor of the automatic winding for pocket watches, dies in Le Locle. <- 1825 | 1827 -> year

1828

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1828 * Heinrich Moser opens the watch trade company H. Moser & Co. in St. Petersburg. <- 1827 | 1829 -> year

1830

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1830 * Ferdinand Adolph Lange starts a watchmaking education at the renowned court watchmaker Johann Christian Friedrich Gutkaes in Dresden. <- 1829 | 1831 -> year

1832

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1832 * Auguste Agassiz, together with the watch dealers Henri Raiguel and Florian Morel, opens a watch trade with manufacturing in the Swiss Saint-Imier. In the following period it becomes the well-known watch manufacturer Longines. * Joseph Thaddäus Winnerl, at whom Ferdinand Adolph Lange will gain important experiences from 1835 until 1840, goes into business for himself in Paris and manufactures

1833

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1833 * The brothers Charles Antoine LeCoultre and François Ulysse LeCoultre found in Le Sentier in the Vallée de Joux the watch company LeCoultre which later becomes the world-famous manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre. <- 1832 | 1834 -> year

1837

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1837 * The master saddler Thierry Hermès founds a business for bridle in Paris. In the 1920s also watches are on offer. Meanwhile, the world-renowned luxury accessory brand has its own watch manufacturing in Biel, Switzerland. * Charles Lewis Tiffany founds the later very famous jeweler's house

1838

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1838 * ETA purchases a factory at Courgémont to benefit from hydro-electric power. <- 1837 | 1839 -> year

1839

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1839 * On 1 May 1839 the watch manufacture Patek, Czapek & Co. is founded in Geneva by two Polish immigrants, the businessman and noble Antoine Norbert count de Patek and the watchmaker Francois Czapek. This is the start of the prestigious luxury watch brand Patek Philippe. * In the same year, Jacques Barthélemy Vacheron and Francois Constantin recruit the

1840

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1840 * Edouard Heuer, the founder of the watch manufacture Heuer, is born in Brügg, Canton of Bern, as Son of a shoemaker. <- 1839 | 1841 -> year

1841

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1841 * The Leonidas Watch Factory, which later merged with Heuer, is founded in Saint-Imier. <- 1840 | 1842 -> year

1842

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1842 * Jean-Adrien Philippe, the later partner at Patek Philippe, developes the crown winding, one of the major innovations in watchmaking history. <- 1841 | 1843 -> year

1843

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1843 * Georges Favre-Jacot, founder of the famous watch manufacture Zenith, is born. <- 1842 | 1844 -> year

1844

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:45+00:00

1844 * Antoine Norbert count de Patek meets the talented French watchmaker Jean-Adrien Philippe at the Paris World Exposition 1844 and elects him as his new partner. From their collaboration emerges the prestigious watch manufacture Patek Philippe. * Jean-Adrien Philippe receives a gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition of 1844 for the

1845

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1845 * With the help of a government loan Ferdinand Adolph Lange starts manufacturing watches with 15 apprentices on 7 December 1845 in Glashütte (Saxonia, Germany) and hereby founds the successful tradition of the Glashütte watch production. <- 1844 | 1846 -> year

1846

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1846 * Ulysse Nardin founds the later world-known company named after him in the Swiss town Le Locle. <- 1845 | 1847 -> year

1847

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1847 * After Louis-François Cartier, the descendent of a powder horn maker, has become a master jeweler, he takes over the jeweler workshop of his master, Adolphe Picard, at 29, rue Montorgueil in Paris. This establishes the foundations for the development of the most important luxury brand

1848

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1848 * Louis Brandt, in the young age of only 23 years ago, opens a Comptoir d'établissage in La Chaux-de-Fonds, which later becomes the world-famous watch manufacturer Omega. * Ferdinand Adolph Lange, in addition to his work in the watch area, is nominated as city mayor of Glashütte and holds this office for 18 years.

1849

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1849 * Erhard Junghans jun. is born as son of the eponymous company founder. <- 1848 | 1850 -> year

1850

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1850 * Robert Gerwig founds the watchmakers' school at Furtwangen. * Marvin is founded in Saint-Imier. * Vacheron Constantin opens a branch in Calcutta. <- 1849 | 1851 -> year

1851

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1851 * On 1 January the name of Patek & Co. is changed to Patek Philippe & Co.. * On 7 January the councilmen of Grenchen at the instigation of Dr. Josef Girard decide to start the building of a watch industry. * Jules-Louis Audemars is born on 28 March in Le Brassus. <- 1850 | 1852 -> year

1852

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1852 * Constantin Othenin Girard founds the company Girard & Cie. Two years later he marries Marie Perregaux, and from the merger of their names and through collaboration with Henri Perregaux in 1856 arises the manufacture Girard-Perregaux in La Chaux-de-Fonds. <- 1851 | 1853 -> year

1853

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1853 * Charles Félicien Tissot founds a pocket watch factory in Le Locle, Switzerland together with his son Charles Emile Tissot. * The community Waldenbourg founds the raw movement factory Société d'Horlogerie à Waldenbourg. <- 1852 | 1854 -> year

1854

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1854 * Antoine Norbert de Patek travels to New York to visit Charles Lewis Tiffany, beginning over a century of collaboration between Patek Philippe and Tiffany. * The US-american watch company Waterbury Clock is founded in the Naugatuck River Valley, which was the stronghold of US watchmakers in the 19th century. Later this company becomes the famous watch brand

1856

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1856 * Andreas Huber on 13 October 1856, after he has received a legacy of 3,000 guilders, founds a watch business in the Roeckl house at No. 4 Karlsplatz in Munich with this money. From this in the following years arises the watches house Andreas Huber, which is well-known far beyond Munich.

1858

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1858 * The brothers Charles Robert and Hyppolite Robert found the company H. & C. Robert in Villeret in the Bernese Jura, from which later the well-kown manufacture Minerva emerges. <- 1857 | 1859 -> year

1860

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1860 * The watch manufacture Heuer is founded by Edouard Heuer in Saint-Imier (Switzerland). * Chopard is founded in Sonvilier. * Jacques Didisheim is founded in La Chaux-de-Fonds. It would become known as Juvenia, one of the better-known upscale brands after World War II. * Guido Panerai founds the family business “Guido Panerai & Figlio” in Florence, which later will be renamed to

1861

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-02T17:48:46+00:00

1861 * On 15 April 1861 Erhard Junghans founds, together with his brother-in-law Jakob Zeller-Tobler, the company “Junghans and Tobler” in Schramberg, which later becomes the famous German watch manufacturer Junghans. <- 1860 | 1862 -> year

1864