Mechanical watches

Mechanical wristwatches - marvels of watchmaking While

the first mechanical watch was developed over 1000 years ago, the triumph of the mechanical wristwatch only began about 100 years ago. The prerequisite for the introduction of market-ready wristwatches with mechanical drive was the increasing miniaturization in the art of watchmaking, which made it possible to accommodate increasingly comple movements in ever smaller cases. A first step in this direction was certainly taken with pocket watches.

Mechanical wristwatches were now gradually replacing the hitherto widespread and popular pocket watches, and people who read the time from their wrists became a normal sight on the streets of metropolises. The fact that they were looking at a marvel of watchmaking was epressed in the fact that the watches were guarded like a treasure and often passed on from generation to generation.

There is no doubt that automatic watches are the most popular and at the same time the most modern among wristwatches with mechanical movements. Wristwatches with automatic movements have the advantage that they wind themselves solely by the movement of the wrist and thus make manual winding over the crown unnecessary. Especially in the 1950s, automatic watches gained great popularity due to their unsurpassed comfort.

Since then, well-known manufacturers such as Ingersoll and Junkers have continued to perfect the mechanisms for their mechanical wristwatches and automatic watches. For eample, both Ingersoll and Junkers come up with mechanical multifunction wristwatches and automatic chronographs that, in addition to the time display, have other useful functions such as the date display or the stopwatch. Water resistance is also no longer a problem these days, even with mechanical watches.

Junkers mechanical watches are robust and durable all-rounders with minimal maintenance and high precision. They are designed as mechanical pilot's watches that pay homage to the pioneering days of German aviation. Hence such epressive names as 'Altitude Record Flight F13' or Iron Annie Ju 52. Ingersoll has made a name for itself as a manufacturer of high-quality automatic watches. Founded in 1892 in the United States, models such as 'Sierra', 'Boston' and 'Jefferson' are now reminiscent of historical events, leaders or places in the USA.