Amazing history about pocket watches and more

Dec 19
08:21

2011

Li Yu

Li Yu

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Most watches appeared after a few discoveries, the same happened with pocket watches.

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There are many pocket watches models on the market. Surely you know them,Amazing history about pocket watches and more Articles they are still used. The duration depends on the amount of sand and drop size of the hole. Back in history, in 1840 Alexander Bain built an electric clock powered by electrical attraction and repulsion. Based on studies conducted by Galileo, Christian Huygens designed the Pendulum the 1st watch in 1656. This watch was the most accurate to date, with an error of only 5 minutes a day.

The pendulum clock most popular type is called Cuckoo Clock. This is how then this evolved to develop what we know as pocket watches. It is unclear who invented the first mechanical watch, which is known is that the former have been found date from 1290. The mechanism consists of a set of spinning wheels powered by a weight hanging from a rope.

Furthermore, 67 years ago, Alvin Warren Marrison, put crystals to an electric clock. The pocket watch appears as another version. They are very accurate clocks, only 3 seconds behind or ahead a year. This watch began to develop in 1946. It has a high accuracy, their margin of error of one second every 300 years. It is the most accurate of all the clocks that exist so far.

The pocket watches were a necessary invention for measuring time. But many of them have served more as a decorative element. As a curiosity about the world of watches and clocks to highlight as an important ornamental past, include bell clock embedded in the handle of a cane, which he gave to Guidobaldo della Rovere in 1542. Pocket watches were invented in France in the mid fifteenth century, after the creation of applied spiral spring in watches. The first pocket watch was designed and built in 1842 by Swiss Philippe with the property that it is necessary to wind to set in motion the needles. The original form of these tiny watches was cylindrical, with different and extravagant embellishments. But in the early sixteenth century Nuremberg build large quantity of watches with ovoid.

It is important to appoint keyless pocket watches that were turning a ring mounted on the dial with one's fingernail. This work was created by Beaumarchais, in 1755, for the Marquise de Pompadour.

The pocket watches are a useful tool for accurate measurement of time, and whose creation was an important discovery for the daily life of human being. Specifically, the pocket watch is a very decorative object and complex machinery, as well as thorough. 

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