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Watches - Used to keep track of time. Time is one of the most important things to know, it can be the difference of live and death in some situations. The earliest watches we know of were in the early 1600’s. Before the early 1600’s, the main problem with producing watches - A portable method of timekeeping, was the driving power (in the 20th century we use batteries). Typically in this day in age, a clock was driven by a set of weights, and thus a watch of this type would be very impractical to carry.
The Earliest watch was made by 15 florins, in the year 1524. This is currently the earliest date with record of a watch being produced. Other watches started appearing in the mid 1550’s, and were from Germany and France - The English and Swiss watches did not start appearing just yet, their watches started appearing towards of the end of the 16th century (1580’s)
These first watches were very innacurate. They did not have a minute hand, and must be wound up twice a day. At first the movements were made of steel. but brass came into the mix soon after. These first movements were also straight-verge movements, and they did not contain balance springs. By the start of the 17th century, Astronomical data and dates were being displayed on watches, even though timekeeping itself was still very poor.
In the mid to late 1600’s, watches started becoming more and more like everyday jewelry. Watches started being made out of precious metals like gold, and silver. Many got these watches engraved, pierced or enameled as further decorations. By the late 1600’s, women started wearing watches, and their watches came in exotic ships and lucrative shapes.
In the early 1700’s, the innacuracy that has plagues watches timekeeping, was finally fixed. In 1675 a spiral balance spring was finally used. This took the innacuracy on watches from 10’s of minutes, to seconds. There is a bit of a dispute as to who actually was the first person to do this, Hook and Huygens were both were both working with watches and springs at this time
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