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History of timekeeping devices:

For thousands of years, devices have been used to measure and keep track of time. The current sexagesimal system of time measurement dates to approximately 2000 BC, in Sumer. The Ancient Egyptians divided the day into two 12-hour periods, and used large obelisks to track the movement of the Sun. They also developed water clocks, which were probably first used in the Precinct of Amun-Re, and later outside Egypt as well; they were employed frequently by the Ancient Greeks, who called them clepsydrae. Read more on History of timekeeping devices.

History of watches

Watches evolved from portable spring driven clocks, which first in the 15th century. Portable timepieces were made possible by the invention of the mainspring. Although some sources erroneously credit Nuremberg clockmaker Peter Henlein (or Henle or Hele) with inventing the mainspring around 1511, many references to ‘clocks without weights’ and two surviving examples show that spring powered clocks appeared in the 15th century.Henlein is also often credited with constructing the first pocketwatches, mostly because of a passage by Johann Cochläus in 1511. Read More on History of watches

More Resources on Luxury Watches:

• A history of mechanical inventions – By Abbott Payson Usher
• Time’s Pendulum: From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World
• Time in history: views of time from prehistory to the present day By G. J. Whitrow
• American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876 by Jacques David
• Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH
• The Most Expensive Watches 
• More to come!