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Wednesday Hump Day Fun Fact # 47 !!!
April 23, 2014 | 0 comments »
(Breguet Classique Tourbillon 5357BA/12/9V6) In horology, a tourbillon is an addition to the mechanics of a watch escapement. Developed around 1795 by the French-Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet from an earlier idea by the English chronometer maker John Arnold, a tourbillon aims to counter the effects of gravity by mounting the... Read More
Wednesday Hump Day Fun Fact # 46 !!!
April 16, 2014 | 0 comments »
(Cesium 133 – Carbon Fiber) The Cesium 133 wristwatch (pictured above) was unveiled by Bathys Hawaii in October 2013. Unlike so-called ‘atomic wristwatches’ that use a radio signal generated by the US government to keep accurate, the Cesium 133 (named for the most stable isotope of the element) has... Read More
Wednesday Hump Day Fun Fact # 45 !!!
March 26, 2014 | 0 comments »
George Daniels (1926-2011 pictured) was one of the greatest names in British watchmaking. Daniels is known for his invention of the co-axial escapement (or ‘Daniels Escapement’), patented in 1980. This is a modification of the lever escapement with some features of the detent escapement and is considered by some to... Read More
Wednesday Hump Day Fun Fact # 44 !!!
March 05, 2014 | 0 comments »
The self-winding or automatic watch rewinds the mainspring of a mechanical movement by the natural motions of the watch wearer. It works by an eccentric weight, called a winding rotor, rotating with the movement of the wearer’s wrist. The back-and-forth motion of the winding rotor couples to a ratchet to wind... Read More
Wednesday Hump Day Fun Fact # 43 !!!
February 12, 2014 | 0 comments »
During the First World War the unprecedented wide battlefronts meant that the coordination of thousands of soldiers had to be synchronized to a much more precise nature than in previous military conflicts. Millions of troops were issued with a ‘trench watch’, doing much to dispel the pre-war image of the... Read More
Wednesday Hump Day Fun Fact # 42 !!!
February 05, 2014 | 0 comments »
In the lead up to the First World War a pioneer of aviation technology also played a role in helping to popularize the use of wristwatches. Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932 - pictured) made several contributions to the field of aircraft design in the early stages of aviation technology. Santos-Dumont’s final monoplane... Read More
Wednesday Hump Day Fun Fact # 41 !!!
January 29, 2014 | 0 comments »
The first wristwatch with an alarm function was produced by luxury Swiss watchmaker Eterna in 1908, but it did not enter into production until 1914. Eterna produced several other innovations during the 1930s, such as the smallest production wristwatch with a ‘Baguette’ movement (an elongated rectangular movement, the length of... Read More
Wednesday Hump Day Fun Fact # 40 !!!
January 22, 2014 | 0 comments »
(Watch pictured is currently in stock) Pocket watches and waistcoat pockets are a male sartorial coupling that dates back to the 17th century. The foppish British monarch King Charles II popularized the wearing of waistcoats among the fashion-conscious classes in the 1670s, and the gentleman’s watch - the tablet PC... Read More
Wednesday Hump Day Fun Fact # 39 !!!
December 11, 2013 | 0 comments »
Have you ever asked yourself, “Why isn’t the Roman numeral at "4" right on my watch?” On a watch or clock face, Roman numerals run in the correct order ‘I’, ‘II’, ‘III,’ until we get to the numeral for ’4′. It should read ‘IV’, but more often than not, it... Read More
Wednesday Hump Day Fun Fact # 38 !!!
December 04, 2013 | 0 comments »
Smiles for the Holidays!!! In most watch catalogues and in-store displays, you’ll find the time is displayed as ten minutes past ten o’clock or sometimes ten minutes to two o’clock. The popular meaning for this is that it’s “Happy Time” or that the clock is smiling which becomes an emotional... Read More
