1892
Audemars Piguet
already builds the world's first
wristwatch
with
minute repeater
and is thus far ahead of time, because the type of the
wristwatch
will win through only about 20 years later.
The Dane
Bahne Bonniksen
, a great admirer of
Abraham-Louis Breguet
, applies his invention of the
carousel
in London for a patent. This approach is a robust alternative to the
tourbillon
construction of Breguet, which also aims for the compensation of the influence of gravity.
Blancpain
realizes the carousel for the first time in
2008
in its luxury wristwatch model
Blancpain Carrousel Volant Une Minute
.
The company
Breitling
, founded by
Léon Breitling
in
1884
in
Saint-Imier
, relocates to
La Chaux-de-Fonds
in a newly built watch plant.
The brothers Christian and George Thiel start the production of
pocket watch
es in
Ruhla
(Germany) and thus lay the foundation of the city tradition as a city of watches.
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