Firsts

[rodia77]

Tissot:
- first dual time watch, 1853

- first antimagnetic wristwatch, 1929

- first touch-operated wristwatch, 1999


Pics from here.

[rodia77]

Ah, how about first watch worn on the moon?

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Lots of interesting ones posted so far! All I’ve got is this one, that everyone knows:

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Still, first in space:


Pic from here.



(Or was it? I vaguely remember something about watches attached to space dogs...)

[is that my watch]

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Still, first in space:


Pic from here.



(Or was it? I vaguely remember something about watches attached to space dogs...)

first official watch was this one .

[is that my watch]

unofficial yes their is a thread on our and other russian forums that a zim was in with a think it was Blackie pod so yes will find the thread

It’s a dog’s life

[Matt]

Here you go:



This one on Blackie, also the first living thing to survive the trip into space. It’s the posh version with a quality screw back and decent finishing.


The Cosmonaut Museum has a near identical Zim celebrating Comrade Chapaev”s glorious charge which it claims he wore. God knows.

[tribe125]

- first antimagnetic wristwatch, 1929

Quite possibly (I haven’t checked) but antimagnetic pocket watches go back a fair bit further.

See ‘Five Things’ in about six weeks’ time.

[is that my watch]

Quite possibly (I haven’t checked) but antimagnetic pocket watches go back a fair bit further.

See ‘Five Things’ in about six weeks’ time.

well they was experimenting with antimagnetic movement as early as 1846 I think it was a vacheron constantin pocket watch but but don't quote me on that

but it's in the word play probably was the first WRISTwatch but not first movement ?

[is that my watch]

here yes
In the 1840s, Vacheron Constantin was one of the first manufactures to experiment with anti-magnetic features. Around the same time, Breguet was experimenting with glass balance springs while others tested gold. As you may have guessed, these materials were too delicate in the movement and couldn’t maintain accuracy or be produced on a large scale.
Charles-Auguste Pillard set out to make a hairspring resistant to excessive heat by using palladium. Instead, in 1877, he found that the balance spring made of palladium helped to combat magnetism. IWC utilized the patents made by Pillard to create two anti-magnetic movements with balances, balance springs, escape wheels and pallet levers all made from palladium while bronze was used in a park fork and gold in the arms. A low iron content in the design lead to a higher resistance to magnetism.

https://www.govbergwatches.com/blog/...agnetic-watch/

[Egsise]

Ah, how about first watch worn on the moon?

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IF you believe that man has landed on the moon.

[rodia77]

Quite possibly (I haven’t checked) but antimagnetic pocket watches go back a fair bit further.

See ‘Five Things’ in about six weeks’ time.

well they was experimenting with antimagnetic movement as early as 1846 I think it was a vacheron constantin pocket watch but but don't quote me on that

but it's in the word play probably was the first WRISTwatch but not first movement ?

Yes, I remember I checked it and the 'wrist' part made the difference.