Digital pocket watch
The later stem wound movements where based on l'Epines design but are stricktly speaking not lepines because the geometry of the gears was redesigned, stricktly speaking lepines pocket-watches always have kew-wound movements en, with very few exceptions, where always of Swiss or French manufacture. The term has nothing to do with the style or design of the case as lepine type movements, bar styles as well as 3/4 plate designs, are found in either hunter half-hunter or open-faced cases. As it was open-faced watches were described as being called lepines and hunters a savonettes In fact the term Lepine, actually l'Epine refers to a mid to late 18th century Swiss watchmaker who desiged a basic geometry of relative positions and sizes of the wheels of swiss cylinder and (later) lever movements. I've made some changes to the distinction between open faced and hunter cased pocket watches. I have swapped around the first two paragraphs so the summary of the pocket watch's history comes after a description of it. I wonder if anyone has solid dates on this matter.
But how much money would one of those go for? - Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.192.35.125 ( talk) 19:43, 28 March 2012 (UTC) Reply Īlso, in the Watch article it states "In the In 1524, Peter Henlein created the first pocket watch", but doesn't list any decent references.
If a collector could find one of those nuremberg egg watches, holy crap, it would be a nice find. I think to say early 1500s is close enough. This page states that the pocket watch was invented in 1510, yet it is listed on the page for the year 1502 as being invented then. If you're an automobile enthusiast, are you going to add a long section of every car seen in every movie? 206.192.35.125 ( talk) 14:25, 21 March 2012 (UTC) Reply Pop culture references serve no purpose in this article. Is it really surprising that a pocket watch is in Titanic, a period piece?! -Omicron91 13:39, 28 March 2009 (UTC) -Preceding unsigned comment added by Omicron91 ( talk
It definitely should, and I also think that the rest of that section needs to be cut down. I think the pop culture references section should include the infamous Christopher Walken scene in PULP FICTION. This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale. This article has been rated as C-Class on the project's quality scale. Time Wikipedia:WikiProject Time Template:WikiProject Time Time articles If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Time, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Time on Wikipedia. This article has been rated as C-Class on the quality scale. Watches Wikipedia:WikiProject Watches Template:WikiProject Watches Watches articles This article is within the scope of WikiProject Watches, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of watches on Wikipedia. This article has been rated as C-Class by the WikiProject Vital Articles. Pocket watch has been listed as a level-5 vital article in Technology.