Watch the history of the most important four tables

After a few modern signature poems Stop drinking, Lao Yang and black powder stage. In recent days, his mind has been pondering a question: we like to open the General Assembly, will elect their representatives to a meeting, why are called "representatives" do not call "on behalf of the bell" mean? Is our "table" feeling a single "clock"? So today, Lao Yang on the table is a table that table.

Relative to the battery-powered electronic form, the mechanical watch is absolutely different experience to bring people, science fiction writer William Gibson called "tamogotchi style experience": Do you feel worn on the wrist is a living thing. Over the years, the evolutionary history of mechanical watches with the time the train forward and constantly updated, always be the top traditional character an integral part of life. Unfortunately, now watch gradually disappear from people's wrists, because everywhere portable timekeeping devices, such as laptops and cell phones. Watch experts watch list since the advent of the author's most famous few watches, including the history of the most complex structure, such as the size of the mechanical watch hockey. Be noted that the early form relatively large size, should be called "pocket watch", which is usually placed in a pocket, but still can not do without watching the time to hand out to hand ----. Look in the hand. So, here we shall say of these tables under the "watch" list.

1.1794 William Anthony's "Pearl of the Star"


Pearl Star was the first telescopic pointer design watches. The table from London, designed by William Anthony, oval, with automatic telescopic pointer. For example, when the hands point to 12:00, the pointer to the fully extended, until the top of the dial; and when the time 9:15, hands will be automatically reduced to ensure that both sides will not touch the dial.
2.1800 年 Palin Frye Lacey "roaming time."


This is the first digital model of this unique watch displays the time. "Digital" concept watch that show on the dial is no longer the hands of time, but changing the number, which has been the watch manufacturer's goal to pursue. Frye Lacey Swiss Palin launched in 1800, "roaming time" bold and innovative watches, the dial has three hands in around the same pivot, each tip has four little hands the hour counter, and every whole point that is homing. Close the cover, this watch looks like the minute and hour of the fuel table, but read the internal structure, to understand it by the precise gears and hands operation.

3 1910 Rolex "Oyster eternal"


The Rolex watch redefines the function, also has waterproof function. Like with most great inventions, Rolex will integrate two simple technology, invented this waterproof watch, when most people think superfluous, I never thought it swept the world. 1910 introduced the first waterproof watch ads, sellers around the world within each store will be like the water table into the fish tank water to verify its function, since the brand became a Rolex diving watch in lieu of that.
4 1923 Patek Philippe's "Packard"


Bet and watch for students, is the world's first ultra-complicated watches. At that time, "Packard" car empire head of James Ward Packard hopes the world's most complex watches, for which he was to the Swiss watch manufacturer Patek Philippe, under the order, which in 1916 dedicated to him is a kind of functional watch with 16, including from his home in Warren, Ohio, looked out the bedroom window in the night sky can be seen as a way of modeling the star map.