Pocket Watch - a mirror reflecting history and reality

According to historical records, clocks were born about 600 years ago, while pocket watches appeared in the late 17th century. At a time when Britain, France, Germany, etc., the earliest countries that made watches, clocks were almost always mounted on churches or clock towers, and new clocks and clocks such as lever balances and spring-coil mechanisms came into existence People create the conditions for their pockets, this is the first pocket watch. Patek Philippe pocket watch In the 19th century, pocket watch manufacturing technology has reached a very high level. At the time of the watchmaking process by hand, from the K gold case to create, exquisite carving, painted enamel to burn each gear and screw, all to be manual. A workmanship stressful, complex pocket watch, it usually takes a few years to complete the production. Swiss watchmakers precisely because of the advanced technology (such as leading gears and escapement) in the field of pocket watches, the country of Switzerland in the next two centuries will become the world center of watchmaking. Many early Swiss watchmaking skills are now lost as the years go by, and only the legendary pocket watches handed down are still telling people the glorious history of the past. In the last year, Breguet retrospective held at the Louvre Salle de La Chapelle chapel, by the rounds of antique pocket watch watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet then personally done, was presented before the world as a table fan rarity. From these sets virtuosity and beauty in one of the avant-garde watches, we can easily get a glimpse of the true face of the peak period of European art of watchmaking, and since the beginning of the French Revolution to the end of the Napoleonic era ruling is such a vigorous highly variable history. In this year, organized by the Historical Museum of Bern "Albert Einstein" on the China tour, one completed in 1943 Longines pocket watch, show Einstein the same life sciences giant the most prolific, most Remember the time. Breguet pocket watch For today's watchmakers, pocket watches are not only important in that they have witnessed the development of watchmaking culture in Europe, they themselves are also mirrors of history and reality. For example, in Jaeger-LeCoultre museum's collection in 1907, Jaeger-Le Coultre thin sword-shaped pocket watch, we can easily see a variety of influences from the Art Nouveau era. In watchwatches, hunter pocket watches and digital pocket watches, the watchmakers and watchmakers Joseph Pallweber completed the historical fragment of the rapid expansion of European colonialism. For today's watch lovers, the few known anecdotes that exist between the inch and the square, it is precisely the greatest charm pocket watch.