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Post by docmac88 on Feb 12, 2015 20:07:41 GMT -8
Innovation: small size, hacking, water proof cases, shock resistance, automatic wind, chronograph, multitime, quartz, solar, other movement innovations, spring drive, silcon, etc etc. What do you think is the most important or your favorite development in the history of the wristwatch? Do you have an early example?
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Post by trandy on Feb 12, 2015 20:30:27 GMT -8
Old school: Auto winding.
New school: Quartz movements...because it changed everything in the industry.
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Post by Adrian-VTA on Feb 12, 2015 21:19:52 GMT -8
My vote is on quartz.
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Post by docmac88 on Feb 12, 2015 21:23:34 GMT -8
Trandy those are good. Rolex made it's name with the oyster case what do you think is the seiko equivalent? I also like the early development of more shock resistant watches which made watches more durable. I think Wyler and for Seiko diashock. And of course Casio g shock!
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Post by cobrajet25 on Feb 12, 2015 23:04:05 GMT -8
Quartz. It revolutionized timekeeping, and not just for wrist watches.
Prior to quartz, all horological innovations were just improvements on the same basic mechanical timekeeping concepts.
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Post by docmac88 on Feb 13, 2015 4:40:43 GMT -8
Yes Quarto was certainly the biggest game changer. In WW1 just having a watch was a breakthrough to time military maneuvers. My uncle was a b17 pilot in WW2 who used a hacking A11 which was considered important in improving timing of bombing missions even more. Lots of important improvements in their historical timeframe.
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Post by Adrian-VTA on Feb 13, 2015 5:16:36 GMT -8
Yep, quartz completely does away with an escapement system. The escapement system goes back to BC times - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escapement"The earliest liquid-driven escapement was described by the Greek engineer Philo of Byzantium (3rd century BC) in his technical treatise Pneumatics (chapter 31) as part of a washstand.[3] A counterweighted spoon, supplied by a water tank, tips over in a basin when full, releasing a spherical piece of pumice in the process. Once the spoon has emptied, it is pulled up again by the counterweight, closing the door on the pumice by the tightening string. Remarkably, Philo's comment that "its construction is similar to that of clocks" indicates that such escapement mechanisms were already integrated in ancient water clocks." Of course, with some maths and engineering, you can make a highly accurate clock with water, because you can accurately measure how much water you are releasing to the system. Modern style escapements come to us from Galileo - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s_escapementHowever, verge escapements were used from the middle ages and probably much earlier - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verge_escapementAt the time a verge escapement was a huge advance over water clocks because they didn't freeze! However, this discussion could take us well off topic. My point is quartz was that revolutionary. Which is why, at the time, SEIKO let other brands have the title for first auto chronograph even though it is pretty much certain they did it first.. They had much more revolutionary things to focus on, being quartz. Why take attention away from that? Quartz. It revolutionized timekeeping, and not just for wrist watches. Prior to quartz, all horological innovations were just improvements on the same basic mechanical timekeeping concepts. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2015 5:30:59 GMT -8
Quartz no contest. Most manual wind watches & clocks became redundant almost over night.
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Post by docmac88 on Feb 13, 2015 5:49:42 GMT -8
The application of mass production practices to the manufacture of watches certainly put them on the wrists of more people, interchangeable parts made them easier to repair. I think that was important as well
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Post by sdoocms on Feb 13, 2015 6:31:01 GMT -8
I don't like quartz even tho I am wearing one today. I'll take a self winding mechanical watch any day!
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Post by earthphase on Feb 13, 2015 9:31:42 GMT -8
the internet
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2015 9:34:30 GMT -8
Spring Drive for sure  |
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Post by feca67 on Feb 13, 2015 14:37:33 GMT -8
....the strap?  ha, ha.... I'll get my coat. |
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Post by trandy on Feb 13, 2015 14:57:42 GMT -8
This is more profound than one might think. |
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Post by mar52 on Feb 13, 2015 15:15:44 GMT -8
It was 1977, I was watching TV... www.youtube.com/watch?v=T86A8YFs-qoAt least they made it seem important. Definitely Quartz for me. My first was in the 70s with my Seiko LaSalle. |
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Post by jringo8769 on Feb 13, 2015 17:34:12 GMT -8
Well without these innovations none of us would be here...just think about that...The internet has made mass communication so streamline ....think of our parents could have ever thought how we communicate today...think of your grandparents...this must seem so strange to them...just in our lifetimes we have leaped forward ....Thank God for all he has given to us....and thank him for making us intelligent enough to use it all....to me all of these things are truly incredible how we made something most people take for granted or not even wear ....i can not imagine now having one on my wrist....
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Post by HiBeat on Feb 16, 2015 14:14:07 GMT -8
the strap. Up until then they were in your pocket!
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ha, ha.... I'll get my coat.
