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Early watches (1500-1675) |
| Early watches (1500-1675) |
The birth of the watch, 1500 to 1675
Researchers have tried in vain to put a date and a place to the creation of the first watch. It has proved equally impossible to attribute its birth to a single watchmaker. In all likelihood, it was simply the result of the gradual miniaturisation of clocks during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The invention of the mechanical clock is shrouded in even greater mystery, thus providing historians with inexhaustible matter for debate. The notion of ...
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