* High-tech ceramic is used in watchmaking for producing watch cases.

A prime reason for his leaving Geneva was that theatre was forbidden in that Calvinist city, so he had decided to become the enlightened " patriarch " of the little village of Ferney, setting up potteries, a watchmaking industry and, of course, theaters, attracting rich people from Geneva to watch his plays.

In 1858 the first watch factory was established, and watchmaking and precision mechanics have been important industries ever since.

These highly-skilled workers do not have a watchmaking degree or certificate, but are specifically trained ' in-house ' as technicians to service only one or more components of the watch in a true ' assembly-line ' fashion, ( e. g., one type of worker will dismantle the watch movement from the case, another will polish the case and bracelet, another will install the dial and hands, etc .).

* In watchmaking, " perpetual calendar " describes a calendar mechanism that correctly displays the date on the watch ' perpetually ', taking into account the different lengths of the months as well as leap days.

In the watchmaking industry they are used to keep delicate watch parts from being contaminated with grease and skin particles and also in art conservation and restoration, to protect works of art from the skin's natural oils, which can have corrosive effects over time.

In 1868, an American engineer and watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones ( 1841 – 1916 ) who had been a director of E. Howard & Co., in Boston, then America's leading watchmaking company, founded the International Watch Company with the intention of combining the craftsmanship of the Swiss with the modern engineering technology from the U. S. to manufacture movements and watch parts for the American market.

Horology, clockmaking and watchmaking appropriated the term ébauche to refer to an incomplete or unassembled watch movement and its associated components.

To outline the beginning of the 3rd century of its watchmaking the company created Patrimony — the world's thinnest mechanical watch at that time which was only thick.

Piaget then launched the cuff watch, which became a symbol of fine watchmaking.

" This special watch included the signature look of Dior Homme: " Watch design and technology match each other inseparably, to create the perfect expression of Dior Homme ’ s artistic excellence and to increase the watchmaking legitimacy of Dior timepieces.

In 1924, Baume & Mercier appeared in the Davoine official watch industry directory, the benchmark register of watchmaking companies, as one of the four Geneva-based manufacturers alongside Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin and Haas Neveux.

Focusing firmly on high-quality watchmaking combining technical excellence with a contemporary look, the company enjoyed swift success despite the major crises that hit the Swiss watch industry in the early 1920s and after the 1929 stock market crash.

A grand complication is a watch with several complications, the most complex achievements of haute horlogerie, or fine watchmaking.

As the new head of the company, Karl Scheufele III, quickly gained significant experience with watchmaking, contributed to the modernization of the company and added the jewellery segment into the Chopard watch production.

The new design was complex, and many small improvements were needed to create a reliable product ; the watchmaking background of many of the designers produced a design which was sophisticated, but more delicate than what was required for a camera.

Fascinated by the watches that were gaining popularity in Osaka at the time, he took up watchmaking, studying business along the way.

Previously, printing, textiles, and to a smaller extent watchmaking were also of importance, but today tourism is the most significant source of income.

Most jewelers and goldsmiths were Christian Armenians and Jews, but the interest of the Ottomans in the related art of watchmaking resulted in many European goldsmiths, watchmakers and gem engravers moving to Constantinople, where they worked in the foreigners ' quarter, Galata.

" At the time, wages in Switzerland were relatively low although there was a ready supply of skilled watchmaking labor " mainly carried out by people in their homes.

Two generations later the Bovets were running a flourishing Swiss-Chinese commercial enterprise and were no longer interested in watchmaking.

The watchmaking, weaving, brewing and storekeeping skills of the new colonists were ill-suited to the establishment of a colony, because they lacked the ability to produce food for themselves.

In 1919, barely a year after the company was set up, Baume & Mercier movements were awarded the “ Poinçon de Genève ” or Geneva Hallmark, the highest token of fine craftsmanship in watchmaking.

Repeater watches were much harder to make than repeater clocks ; fitting the bells, wire gongs and complicated striking works into a pocketwatch movement was a feat of fine watchmaking.

His inventions had a great impact on the watchmaking industry in general.

IWC is one of the brands that initiated the use of ceramic in watchmaking.

When he felt he was ready, he moved to Tours and set up a watchmaking business, doing conjuring on the side.

William himself had a small estate in Weardale called Castle Gate situated not far from Eastgate where he would repair to work throughout the Summer on projects as disparate as stonemasonry and watchmaking.

The Swiss Jura has been industrialized since the 18th century and became a major center of the watchmaking industry.

Differentials are also used in this way in watchmaking to link two separate regulating systems with the aim of averaging out errors.

This is also reflected in the tradition of watchmaking in Geneva.

Upon leaving France, Huguenots took with them knowledge of important techniques and styles — which had a significant effect on the quality of the silk, plate glass, silversmithing ( see: Huguenot silver ), watchmaking, and cabinet making industries of those regions to which they relocated.

The second child of Joseph-Félicien and Marie-Anne Angéline, née Mahon, Louis Chevrolet was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, a center of watchmaking in northwestern Switzerland.

Rolex SA is a Swiss watchmaking manufacturer of high-quality, luxury wristwatches.

Through its sixty-year history, the company has contributed several technological advances in watchmaking efficiency such as the development of power-reserve indicators and use of in-house movement production of watches in the hundred-dollar price range .. By 2004 had perfected their Caliber 88700 which was featured in the Royal Orient Brand.

The majority of modern watchmakers in the world, particularly in Switzerland and Europe, work directly for the Watchmaking Industry, and may have completed a formal watchmaking degree at a technical school.

-lower second-hand watchmaking parts on the used and fake market.

Some USA watchmaking schools of horology will teach not only the wostep style including the ETA range of movements but also focuses on the older watches that a modern watchmaker will encounter on a daily basis.

* Antide Janvier publishes his textbook on the theory and practice of watchmaking, Manuel Chronometrique, ou, precis de ce qui concerne le temps, ses divisions, ses mesures, leurs usages, etc.

* Pierre Le Roy invents the detent escapement in watchmaking.

Clockmakers generally do not work on watches ; the skills and tools required are different enough that watchmaking is a separate field, handled by another specialist, the watchmaker.

In the past, becoming a clockmaker involved apprenticeship or attendance at a clock making or watchmaking school.

It is also the heartland of the celebrated Swiss watchmaking industry, centered on the once-famous towns of La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle, which both rely heavily on their horological past to draw in visitors.