watch timeline

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    Solar clock

    Solar clock
    About 4,000 years ago in Egypt, the first watch was invented. This object could only measure time when it was sunny day. There is an inventor who can point. The sundial is responsible to tell us what time of day it is. Basically, the sun casts a shadow on a triangular pointer called gnomon. The sundial is like a clock with numbers around. The shadow sun reveals the time of day.
  • Jun 3, 1338

    Hourglass

    Hourglass
    In Europe during the sixteenth century, hourglasses were used to measure the duration of the masses in iglesias.La duration depends on the amount of sand and the size of the drop hole.
  • Jun 9, 1401

    Pocket Watch

    Pocket Watch
    It was invented in the mid-fifteenth century in France by Peter Henlein.
    At first he had a cylindrical shape, then in Nuremberg were built with presicion and ovoid, which were called Nuremberg eggs.
  • Jun 3, 1530

    Water Clock

    Water Clock
    Water Clock and Hourglass indicates the time at night to empty the water contained therein; the oldest of these was found in an Egyptian temple and says it was made 3356 years, approximately does. (1530 BC)

  • Pendulum clock

    Pendulum clock
    The first pendulum clock was invented in 1656, Christian Huygens was the first to patent the clock.
    They were used in churches and castles in the thirteenth century and in the fifteenth century were used in the houses.
    The pendulum clock was invented that allowed more accurately measure the time and was refined over time.

  • Watch fretboard

    Watch fretboard
    Fretboard clock was invented in 1866 and was patented by the Frenchman Louis Breguet and in 1954 by the Swiss ingeriero Hetzel invented the first wristwatch rejol pitch.
    The fretboard is a piece of metal similar to a fork but with only two teeth, the vibrations of a tuning fork are very accurate, and can serve to mark the time on a clock.

  • Quartz crystal clock

    Quartz crystal clock
    It was invented in 1920 by Warren Marrison and J. W. Horton.
    In 1967, the first two prototypes of quartz watches, the Beta 1 and Seiko Astron appear.

  • Atomic Clock

    Atomic Clock
    I began to develop in 1948, invented by Willard Frank Libby US based on the ideas of Rabbi Isaac.
    It is the most accurate clock there, your margin of error is a second home 300 years.
    The first commercial portable atomic clock, Atomichron, appeared in the 50s.

  • Digital clock

    Digital clock
    It was invented in 1956, it provoked a revolution in the watchmaker because they were cheaper and more accurate than mechanical watches.
    The Swiss Josef Pallweber invented the first mechanical digital watch.