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Kleine geschiedenis: Sovjet Russische horloges

Soviet Russian watches have a rich and interesting history dating back over 80 years with the creation of the First Moscow Watch Factory, which today manufactures Poljot watches. A highlight of Russia's watch history came in 1961 when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin took the first ever flight into space with a watch from the First Moscow Watch Factory. Here's a chronological summary of key events in the history of Russian watchmaking. 1927 - The Labour and Defense Council passed a decree to establi…

Kleine geschiedenis Nederland en de tijdzone

N.a.v. het verhaal dat Noord Korea een eigen tijdzone in gaat stellen ... Hier hoe het tot nog niet al te lang geleden in nederland aan toe ging kwa tijdsindeling: Tot ver in de 20e eeuw was er geen eenduidige tijdsaanduiding in Nederland. Bij wet kwam daar pas op 1 mei 1909 verandering in. De meridiaan van de Westerkerk te Amsterdam werd gekozen als ijkpunt voor de Amsterdamse Tijd. Vanaf dat moment was er een tijdsverschil van 19m28s met Greenwich. In de nacht van 30 juni op 1 juli 1937 we…

Kleine geschiedenis: Gruen

[afbeelding] Dietrich Gruen Birth: Feb. 22, 1847, Germany Death: Apr. 10, 1911, Italy A native of Osthofen, Germany, he was a pioneer of the pocket watch. Gruen was educated in public and private schools and learned watchmaking as an apprentice to Hans Martens in Friedburg. While studying at the Deutsche Urhmacherschule (German Watchmaking School) in Glashütte, Germany, Frederick Gruen became acquainted with Paul Assmann, whose father Julius had founded a successful and highly-regarded wa…

Kleine geschiedenis: Roamer

[afbeelding] Fritz Meyer 1888 The story of ROAMER, the brand of high-quality Swiss watches, begins with the ideal of its pioneering founder, Fritz Meyer (1859-1926), to create a robust yet elegant watch, a precious accessory which everyone would love to own. With this goal, he sets up his own business in Solothurn, Switzerland – a workshop with six employees producing cylinder escapements for the watch industry. (The origins of the Roamer Watch Company hark back to 1888, when the first en…

Kleine geschiedenis: Zodiac

[afbeelding] Ariste Calame Ariste Calame (1839-1917) first set up a workshop in 1864 in Cret-Vaillant. The watch company was founded in 1882 by Ariste Calame. The original name of the company was Ariste Calame. It was a small workshop. [afbeelding] The trade mark Zodiac, now over a hundred years old, was only registered in 1908, after having been used for years, by the grandson of the founder of the factory which was run at that time under the family name of a dynasty of watchmakers: Ca…

Kleine geschiedenis: Junghans

[afbeelding] Erhard Junghans 1 Januari 1823 in Zell am Harmersbach, Baden; † 9. September 1870 in Schramberg) hij was een strohoed- en uurwerkfabrikant. The Junghans company was founded by Erhard Junghans and his brother-in-law Jakob Zeller-Tobler in Schramberg (The Black Forrest/Schwarzwald) in 1861. Until today, the original site remained the company’s headquarter. Since the very beginning, Junghans has always been standing for precision and topquality manufacturing. While the company init…

Kleine geschiedenis: Enicar

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