Hi Everyone,
Almost everyone has a watch. Watches make it easier for people who wear them to pay attention to time. Very efficient because it is worn on the wrist. Besides watches, modern society also uses watches from cellphones. However, classic clocks such as wall clocks are still used in everyday life at work or at home.
Recognition of watches Just like other types of clocks, people who wear watches also have various purposes. There is only to pay attention to time, there is to get status, there are those who wear it for fashion needs, and some who buy watches for investment. These things create their own euphoria among the community, as some people think that high-priced watches are an influence on the selling price.
History of Watches
Watches are a development of pre-existing pocket watches. The concept of the watch itself has existed since the 16th century in the form of "arm watches" given by Robert Dudley to Queen Elizabeth I of England. However, most assume that the creator of the first watch was Abraham-Louis Breguet for Caroline Murat, sister of Napoleon and queen of Naples. Initially watches were worn by women just like bracelets, but then began to appear watches for men replacing pocket watches considering the practicality for activities such as the army and pilots.
The watch that was previously a pocket watch with a bracelet or leather strap slowly also changes. Since World War I, with the need for watches on the battlefield to coordinate tactics and strategies, and many men who jumped into the army, the popularity of watches among men also rose. Starting in 1923, John Harwood created a watch with the first automatic winding, which makes it easier for users so that they do not need to winding the clock manually continuously.
In 1957, the first electric clock was produced and first introduced in the world by Hamilton Watch Company, a watch manufacturer from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA (now under the Swatch Group). But at that time the accuracy of the clock still depends on the balance wheel / balancing coil whose mechanism is still traditional like a general mechanical clock, so the accuracy is not much different from the hours circulating at that time.
However, this electric clock was greeted enthusiastically by the wider community because it no longer had to rotate the clock (in ancient hours, to operate it needed a rotary lock to rotate the clock to keep it operating). The clock will stop operating when the coil conductor surface is corroded. This became homework for Hamilton until the clock mechanism was updated in 1961.
On the other hand, Bulova developed a clock technology that uses a vibration mechanism tuning fork / tuning fork ("U" shaped plate) to maintain clock accuracy. This leads Bulova to the success of its products; Accutron, which was first introduced and sold in 1960 and has better accuracy. This is also related to the Bulova project together with NASA to guide the space vehicles at the launch of Mercury and Apollo which landed the first humans on the moon. Accutron also solved the electrical conductor problem with the introduction of transistors which made the clock operate longer.
This certainly caught the attention of clock manufacturers in Switzerland. In fact, they feel threatened that they can be shifted by Bulova as the most accurate manufacturer of time-determining devices. The watch producers took the initiative to fund a study at a laboratory called the Center Electronique Horloger (CEH) —now the Center Suisse d'Electronique et Microtechnique (CESM). This study focuses on creating quartz watches as a clock accuracy regulator. Previously quartz crystals have been used in large clocks but not yet on watches. In 1967, CEH finally created the first quartz watch prototype, but it was then Seiko who gave rise to Quartz-Astron as the first quartz watch to be sold commercially.
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