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The first pocket watch

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As there was the first pocket watch: Little masterpieces, marked a new era in the development of Mankind.



a few centuries ago, people determined time exclusively by the Sun. Then there was the mechanism. But life was fast, and had to carefully keep track of hours and minutes. In the XVI century there was a real" revolution" in this field. Was invented the pocket watch. The first copies resembled not so much a precise instrument, how many works of art.


Pocket watch with a gold case, encrusted with stones, 1770.

it is believed that the first pocket watch was made in the sixteenth century, Peter Henlein of Nuremberg. In support of this is the manuscript of a contemporary master was Coclea:" Peter Henlein, a young man, creates creation, which even most scientists, mathematicians pay tribute: from a small amount of iron it produces is equipped with the wheels of a watch that, as they had not been turned, without the presence of a-нибудь cargo show and beat off 40 hours, even when in the pocket."

One of the first ones I bought a Martin Luther in 1527.


Pocket watch. Gold, enamel, silver, 1820.


Pocket watch @- a work of art, 1740.

the first pocket watches only had one hand. Glass covering the dial was not provided. Each digit was located tubercle, so you can touch to tell time without removing the watch from his pocket.

After a couple of centuries, from the pocket watch minute hand appeared, a half-century later – second. Accelerated pace of life, people began to cherish their time.


a Skillful miniature painting on enamel. 1850.


Jacques Goullons, 1645.

Along with the development of watchmaking art masters began a careful approach to the question of the design of pocket watches, because they demonstrate the high status of their owner. Watch enameled, inlaid with precious stones. Many of them are masterpieces of not only time, but art and jewelry.


Jacques Goullons, 1645.


Pocket watch. Silver, gilt, 1640.

At the end of the XIX century appeared the first wrist watch, but the aristocrats only used a pocket watch, fastened the chain to the vest. Only 20-30-м years of the twentieth century, wrist watches have become a mass product, and pocket pointed to the high social status of the owner.


Waltham Watch-то belonged to a veteran of the First world war.


Pocket watch, 1832.

In the twentieth century, watchmaking craftsmen combined the exact mechanisms and paintings of famous painters.
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