1500 : Germany : Peter Henlein creates the first pocket watch.
Early 1600s : Form watches becoming popular. Cases are shaped like animals and objects. Religious themes are popular.
1635 : Around this time that the fusee was adapted from clocks to watches.
1659 -1675 : Christian Huygens invents the "Remontoire".
1687 : Daniel Quare patents the repeating mechanism that uses bells to sound quarter hours and the hours.
1704 : Peter and Jacob Debaufre, Nicolas Facio, are the first to use rubies in watch movements.
1735: Blancpain started making watches and produces fewer than 10,000 a year
1750 : Watch makers began using enamel on watch dials.
1759 : Thomas Mudge invents the English lever escapement.
1775 : Abraham Louis Breguet sets up his own watch making shop in Paris, France.
1780 : Abraham Louis Perrelet invents the self winding movement.
1786 : Breguet is the first to use guilloche on watch dials.
1791 : J.F. Bautte founded the watch company that would eventually become Girard-Perregaux.
1807 : Thomas Young invents the recording chronograph.
1809 : Luther Goddard of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts is the first watch manufacturer in America.
1820 : Thomas Prest registers a patent for the self winding watch.
1832: Longines founded
1830: Baume & Mercier was started in by two brothers with one mantra
1833 : Antoine LeCoultre starts his own watchmaking business which later become Jaeger-LeCoultre.
1837 : The French fashion house of Hermes was established by Thierry Hermes
1839: Antoine Norbert de Patek (Salesman) and François Czapek (Watchmaker) joined forces to found « Patek,
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1843: Adrien Philippe develops a watch with winding and setting through the crown.
1844 : The start, stop, and reset chronograph is invented by Adolphe Nicole.
1844 : Antoine LeCoultre invents the millionometre.
1847 : Cartier was founded in Paris by Louis-François
1848 : Louis Brandt opens his own workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds which eventually became the Omega Watch Company
1851 : Mr. Philippe became officially associated the company was rebaptised « Patek Philippe & Cie
1853 : Tissot makes the first dual time zone watch.
1858 : Minerva was founded.
1860 : Chopard Watches was founded
Officine Panerai was founded in Florence, Italy
Heuer was founded.
1865 : Zenith founded by a young Georges Favre-Jacot
1868 : IWC Founded by Florentine Jones, a 27-year old American master watchmaker from Boston
1875 : Audemars Piguet was originally established by two young men; Mr. Audemars designed the movements for the luxury timepieces and Mr. Piguet was in charge of the financial and commercial aspect
1881 : Movado was founded.
1884 : Greenwich, England is officially named the zero meridian and used as the world wide recognized basis of time zones.
1884: The story of Breitling watches began in when Leon Breitling opened a watchmaking workshop in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland
1886 : Geneva Seal established.
1892: The Hamilton Watch Company was founded in Lancaster Company was founded in Lancaster
1894 : Universal Geneve established.
1904 : The Oris watch company was founded and has become well-known for only producing mechanical watches
1905 : Hans Wilsdorf starts the Rolex Watch Company.
1906: Guccio Gucci, son of an Italian trader founded the House of Gucci in Florence
1908 : Concord was founded in Switzerland
1911 : Ebel was founded in Switzerland by life and business partners, Eugene Blum and Alice Levy. Ebel, an acronym of their initials, stands for “Architects of Time”.
1914 : Eterna introduces the first wristwatch with an alarm.
1918: Japan : Shakosha Watch Company opened. This would become Citizen in1931.
1921: From its inception by Guccio Gucci, the name Gucci has become internationally equated with absolute luxury.
1923 : John Harwood is the first to mass produce a self winding wristwatch.
1924 : Tokyo : Seiko brand name is launched by Kinttaro Hattori.
1926 : Rolex introduces the first waterproof case called the "Oyster".
1929 : First anti magnetic watch created by Tissot.
1931 : Shakosha became Citizen.
1933 : Ingersoll introduces the "Mickey Mouse" watch.
1956 : Rolex introduces their first model that displays the day and date.
1957 : Hamilton introduces the world's first battery driven watch.
1962 : Rado produces the world's first scratch proof watch called the "Diastar 1".
1962 : ETA of Switzerland develops the first quartz battery operated watch.
1970 : Hamilton releases the "Pulsar", the first electronic digital watch.
1972 : Longines and Seiko introduce the LCD, (Liquid Crystal Display).
1976 : Founded by Raymond Weil, his watches are based on the ideal of combining classic styling
1980 : Hublot It was established by Carlo Crocco.
1983 : SMH of Switzerland launches the Swatch brand.
Philippe Charriol, the founder of the company that bears his name, was President of Cartier before launching his own line of watches
1985 : Swiss Heuer Company merges with TAG to form TAG Heuer.
1986 : Audemars Piguet introduces the first self winding tourbillon.
1991 : Franck Muller founded.
1999 : Casio innovates with the first wristwatch with a built-in Global Positioning System (GPS).
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