In today's world, the idea of having to wind your watch for it to keep the proper time seems preposterous.However, the truth is that people had to wind their watches for hundreds of years.The automatic watch, or selfwinding watch, was not invented until 1770.It was this innovation that defined modern watchmaking and revolutionized the way people around the world keep track of time.
The automatic watch was invented in 1770 by Swiss watchmaker AbrahamLouis Perrelet.In that year, Perrelet developed a selfwinding mechanism for pocket watches using the same principles applied in modern pedometers.As the watchwearer walked, the mechanism moved up and down, thus winding the watch automatically.Just a few years after this invention, the Geneva Society of Arts reported that Perrelet invention allowed the watch to wind sufficiently for eight days of timekeeping with only 15 minutes of walking.And so the automatic watch was born.Perrelet eventually sold some of his watch designs to fellow watchmaker, AbrahamLouis Breguet.
Breguet would make some changes to the design, but his new design was ultimately unreliable and he discontinued the manufacture of his own design.The traction behind the conversion to automatic mechanisms really began when the design was applied to wristwatches.
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