Introduction of the « Nivarox » compensating balance-spring and the « Nivaflex » mainspring. The company Porte-Echappement Universel (Fritz Marti) invented the « Incabloc » shock absorption system that could be adapted to any calibre. Patents were filed for a chronograph with two push-buttons (Breitling). In Berlin, the German director Fritz Lang premiered his film, Metropolis. On learning the death of Rudolph Valentino from acute peritonitis, hysterical crowds gathered outside the New York clinic where the silent-movie heartthrob had passed away. Switzerland's population reached 4 million. It reached a height of 12.50 metres and a speed of 100 kph. The American physicist Robert Hutchings Goddard successfully launched a rocket propelled by a blend of petrol and liquid oxygen. The Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated his procedure for receiving images by cathode ray tube before the Royal Institution of London. Mercedes Gleitze wore one when she swam the Channel in 1927. Rolex created the Oyster wristwatch with water-resistant case and crown.
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Series production began of self-winding wristwatches with an oscillating weight, based on Harwood's patent (Selza, Fortis and Blancpain using blanks by A.
Both insisted that these goods not be re-exported, which handicapped Swiss industry, based primarily on transformation and export.Ĭharlie Chaplin created his "tramp" character. Imports from the allied countries (overseas products) outweighed imports from the central Empires (coal). German-speaking Switzerland supported the central Empires the French-speaking cantons the Allies. Switzerland was surrounded by belligerent nations, though avoided the worse thanks to its neutrality and its army. On a visit to Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sofia were assassinated by a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip. Of the 4,350 respondents, 3,437 said they found wristwatches "extremely practical." 480 had yet to get to grips with them, while just 433 preferred the pendant watch.Ĭreation by Eterna of the first series-production wristwatch with alarm. The women's magazine Femina polled its readers for their opinions of wristwatches. Antonio Vivaldi ( 1678 - 1741) was ordained as a priest, and joined the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage as a violin teacher. The Fabrique employed people in two main categories: master watchmakers ("maîtres horloger") and "maîtres marchand" or "établisseurs" who bought and assembled watch parts.ġ703. They were known as "cabinets" and their occupants sometimes referred to as "cabinotiers". Most of them were in Saint Gervais, on the top floor of houses where there was the most natural light. These workshops were given the collective name of the "Fabrique". Watches were crafted in small workshops, under a master (maître). The economy, which was generally thriving, was dominated by watchmaking and related professions. Peter the Great founded the city of Saint Petersburg on marshland in the Gulf of Finland. De Beaufré worked in England, and for the next century his invention gave English watches a substantial advantage over their European rivals.ġ703. The first watch with jewels was produced by the French watchmaker de Beaufré using a drilling method invented circa 1700 by the Genevan astronomer and optician Nicolas Fatio de Duillier ( 1664- 1752). Publication by Cervantes of the first part of Don Quichotte, an immediate success. Gold crafting developed with the increased wearing of jewellery (enamelled medallions).ġ605. Instauration of the Grand Tour, where artists would travel through Europe, in particular to Italy, to complete their education. The "Escalade" when Geneva repelled an attack by the Duke of Savoy.
He had claimed that the Sun was just another star, described the universe as "infinite", and held that life forms existed elsewhere in this universe than on Earth.ġ602. After living in Geneva, Giordano Bruno was condemned for heresy and burned at the stake in Rome. She brought with her a dowry of 600,000 ecus and the guarantee of stronger ties between France and Italy.ġ600.
Henri IV married his second wife, Marie de Médicis, daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Archduchess of Austria. After a minimum five-year apprenticeship, candidates for the title of master had to make "a small clock with an alarm to wear around the neck and a square clock on two levels to stand on a table."ġ600. Foundation of the Genevan Corporation of Watchmakers.
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