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First early examples of watches being made by Peter Henlein.
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in 1580 the mechanisms of German watches were almost wholly of iron about this time brass was introduced
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Christiaan Huygens was first to desing a watch with a spiral balance spring
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Johannes Pieter Kroese made the silver pocket watch, a dutch watch maker it was made in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Many modern mechanical watches use a lever escapement, invented in England in 1755 by Thomas Mudge
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The first patent self-winding pocket watch was used in London 1780
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Louis Recordon patented the self-winding wristwatch
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Battery-powered watches were first introduced in the late 1950s
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The first digital watch was developed in 1970 and sold in 1972
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In the future I think that there will be chip that gets implanted in your skin and in creates a hologram projector on the skin and you can use it like a normal watch.