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• ADI Watch Company
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• Adriatica See more1775John Arnold, a British watchmaker, invents the first marine chronometer.1795Abraham-Louis Breguet, a Swiss-French watchmaker, invents the tourbillon, a device to improve the accuracy of mechanical watches.1848Louis Brandt establishes Omega in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.1853Charles-Emile Tissot and his son Charles-Félicien Tissot found Tissot in Le Locle, Switzerland.1860Giovanni Panerai opens his watch shop in Florence, Italy, and becomes the official supplier of the Royal Italian Navy.1868Florentine Ariosto Jones, an American watchmaker, establishes International Watch Company (IWC) in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.1874Georges-Edouard Piaget sets up his first workshop on his family farm in La Côte-aux-Fées, Switzerland.1875Jules-Louis Audemars and Edward-Auguste Piguet join forces to create Audemars Piguet in Le Brassus, Switzerland.1881Kintaro Hattori opens a watch and jewelry shop in Tokyo, Japan, which later becomes Seiko Corporation.1884Léon Breitling opens his workshop in Saint-Imier, Switzerland, specializing in chronographs and precision instruments.• Backes & Strauss
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Watches evolved from portable spring-driven clocks, which first appeared in 15th-century Europe.[citation needed] The first timepieces to be worn, made in the 16th century beginning in the German cities of Nuremberg and Augsburg, were transitional in size between clocks and wa… - Development
A rise in accuracy occurred in 1657 with the addition of the balance spring to the balance wheel, an invention disputed both at the time and ever since between Robert Hooke and Christiaan Huygens. This innovation increased watches' accuracy enormously, reducing error from perhap…
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