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Peter Henlein Peter Henlein creates the first pocket watch.
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Watches became popular, so cases are shaped like animals and objects.
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The fusee was adapted from clocks to watches.
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Christian Huygens invented the Remontoire.
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Daniel Quare patents the thingy that makes bells sound every quarter hours and hours.
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Watch makers started making the hands diffrent colours.
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Abraham Louis Perrlet invents the wind-up clock
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Breguet puts patterns on watch dials.
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Tomas Young invented the chronograph, simaler to a stop watch.
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Lurther Goddard of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts is the first watch manufacturer in America.
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Adrien Philippe develops a watch with winding and setting through the crown.
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Adolph Nicole invented start, stop, and reset.
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Aaros Dennison invents
waterproof case. -
Cartier makes ladies
wrist watches with dimonds engraded in it. -
Movado invents a
army wrist watch with
a protective grid over
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Audemars Piguet creates the
first stainless steel
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Now, our clocks are complex and crazy. There's millions of gadjets and desighns.
