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2. Automatic watch - Wikipedia

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   The earliest reference to self-winding watches is at the end of 1773 when a newspaper reported that Joseph Tlustos had invented a watch that did not need to be wound. [8] But his idea was probably based on the myth of perpetual motion, and it is unlikely that it was a practical solution to the problem of self-winding watches.

3. John Harwood (watchmaker) - Wikipedia

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   The watches were first shown at the Basel Fair in 1926. [4] He set up the Harwood Self-Winding Watch Company in 1928 to market the watches in the UK, but the company failed in September 1931, not having sufficient financial resources to withstand the effects of the Great Depression. The watches also proved difficult to mass-produce and very ...

4. Futurematic - Wikipedia

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   The Futurematic is a self-winding [1] wrist watch without a crown. It was manufactured between 1951 and 1959 by the Swiss watch manufacturer Jaeger-LeCoultre. The Futurematic was the world's first watch without a crown for winding the mainspring, having a flat crown on the back that was used solely for setting the time. [2]

5. Elgin National Watch Company - Wikipedia

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   The company built the Elgin National Watch Company Observatory in 1910 to maintain scientifically precise times in their watches. The company produced many of the self-winding wristwatch movements made in the United States, beginning with the 607 and 618 calibers (which were bumper wind) and the calibers 760 and 761 (30 and 27 jewels respectively).

6. Watch - Wikipedia

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   The first self-winding mechanism was invented for pocket watches in 1770 by Abraham-Louis Perrelet, [62] but the first "self-winding", or "automatic", wristwatch was the invention of a British watch repairer named John Harwood in 1923. This type of watch winds itself without requiring any special action by the wearer.

7. Glycine (watch) - Wikipedia

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   With the original patent for self-winding watches set to expire in the early 1930s, [3] Meylan (founder of Glycine but no longer affiliated with the company) began working on his own self-winding mechanism and formed the company Automatic E.M.S.A. (Eugène Meylan Société Anonyme). Meylan's automatic watch design was unusual: a separate module ...