The English word "clock" comes from the French word "cloche" meaning bell. The Latin for bell is glocio, the Saxon is clugga, the German is glocke and the Chinese is  . |
Updated on 15 Jul 2013
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Year (B.C.)
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3500
| A sundial clock or a sun clock was first used around this time. |
1400
| Water clocks were invented in Egypt. |
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Year (A.D.)
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723
| Two Chinese Men ( ) invented the "Water Power Armillary Sphere" ( ) with the function of telling time.
Actually, It is like an small observatory and "Striking clock". It will tell the time everyQuarter (Drum) and every Shi Chen (Bell) automatically --- one day was divided into 12 Shi Chen or 100 Quarters in the Chinese culture.
It is categorized as the first mechanical clock in the world because it has a part which is similar to an escapement. |
1086
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A Chinese Man ( ) invented the "Water Power Celestial Globe" ( ) which has all the functions of the "Water Power Armillary Sphere" and can display the current positions of the planets. |  |
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1335
| French, Pierre Le Roy invented the first escapement. He also discovered "Pierre Le Roy's rule", whereby anybalance spring has a certain length that makes it isochronous. |
1364
| Italian, Dondi built a clock with a planetarium for the palace in his native town of Padua in Italy. |
1490
| German, Peter Hele invented the first mainspring. |
1504
| German, Peter Hele invented the first portable timepiece. |
1581
| Italian, Galileo, Astronomer and Physicist, discovered the properties of the pendulum. |
1587
| Watchmaking industry commenced in Geneva. |
1657
| Dutch, Huygens, a Physicist, made the first pendulum controlled clock. |
1675
| Dutch, Huygens invented a flat balance spring for the balance in a watch. |
1704
| Peter and Jacob Debaufre, along with Nicolas Facio, are the first to use rubies in watch movements. |
1735
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| John Harrison completed the first Marine Timekeeper H1 |  |
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1770
| Abranham-Louis Perrelet invented the pedometer winding system. |
1780s
| Abranham-Louis Breguet was making perpétuels, with 2 mainsprings wound by an oscillating platinum winding weight. |
1787
| Levi Hutchins invented the first mechanical alarm clock which could ring only at 4 am. |
1801
| Abraham Louis Breguet patented the Tourbillon. |
1838
| Louis Audemars invents stem winding and setting mechanism. |
1868
| Patek Philippe made the 1st wrist watch. |
1871
| Aaros Dennison of the International Watch Company ( IWC ) invented the waterproof watchcase. |
1872
| John Burge designed the Gothic time lock. |
1876
| Seth E Thomas patented the mechanical wind-up alarm clock that could be set for any time. |
1888
| Cartier produced a lady's wrist watch with diamond and gold bracelet. |
1902
| Omega's 1st wrist watch |
1910
| Longines began wrist watch production. |
1914
| Eterna made the 1st alarm wrist watch. |
1920
| Quartz crystal clocks were invented. |
1923
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John Harwood invented the first Automatic wrist watch. Patent no. 218,487
Rotating bezel to adjust time or perform hand-winding
15 jewels movement
The watch was produced in 1929. |  |
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1925
| Patek Philippe produced the 1st perpetual calendar wrist watch. |
1927
| 1st water resistant Rolex Oyster |
1930
| Tissot developed the 1st anti-magnetic wrist watch. |
1949
| NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) built the first atomic clock, which was based on ammonia (NH3). |
1969
| Omega Speedmaster landed on the moon. |
1970
| Hamilton releases the "Pulsar", the first electronic digital watch with L.E.D. . |
1972
| Longines and Seiko introduce a new type of digital display with the L.C.D. . |
1977
| The idea of Spring Drive was conceived in 1977 by an engineer at SEIKO EPSON's Suwa plant in Japan. |
1989
| IWC assembled the Ingeneur which was able to withstand a huge magnetic field of 500,000 A/m. |
1999
| NIST-F1, an atomic clock which is based on cesium (Cs), works with the accuracy to about one second in 20 million years. |
2008
| Seiko Spackwalk - designed and built to accompany the first private individual ( Richard Garriott ) to conduct a spacewalk. |
2013
| Omega introduced an Anti-magnetic Co-axial Seamaster wrist watch which can withstand >15,000 Gauss |
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