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2. Automatic watch - Wikipedia

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   By the 1960s, automatic winding had become widespread in quality mechanical watches. Because the rotor weight needed in an automatic watch takes up a lot of space in the case, increasing its thickness, some manufacturers of quality watches, such as Patek Philippe, continue to design manually wound watches, which can be as thin as 1.77 millimeters.

3. Abraham-Louis Perrelet - Wikipedia

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   Perrelet is thus widely acknowledged as the inventor of the "automatic" watch. However, his watch probably used a weight pivoting at the side of the movement. The first drawing and accurate description of an automatic watch with a central rotor was created in 1778 by the watchmaker Hubert Sarton and that design is attributed to him. Following ...

4. Watch - Wikipedia

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   Automatic watch: An eccentric weight, called a rotor, swings with the movement of the wearer's body and winds the spring. A Grand Seiko Automatic watch A self-winding or automatic watch is one that rewinds the mainspring of a mechanical movement by the natural motions of the wearer's body.

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   7-RT Triple Watch Winder. Think of the Scatola del Tempo as the Rolex of watch winders. The Italian brand was founded in 1989 in Lake Como, with the president of Patek Philippe as one of its first ...

6. Mainspring - Wikipedia

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   The mainspring of an automatic watch. The spring isn't firmly mounted on the left side, and will slip when fully wound. Self-winding or automatic watches, introduced widely in the 1950s, use the natural motions of the wrist to keep the mainspring wound. A semicircular weight, pivoted at the center of the watch, rotates with each wrist motion.

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   MDV-106B-1A2VCF. Modeled after classic '60s dive watches, this Casio more than looks the part.You'll be hard pressed to find a better bargain for a fully functional dive watch. Lum painted hands ...