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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>History of watches<br />
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Watches evolved from portable spring driven clocks, which initial within the 15th century. Portable timepieces had been produced possible by the invention from the mainspring. Even though some sources erroneously credit Nuremberg clockmaker Peter Henlein (or Henle or Hele) with inventing the mainspring about 1511, numerous references to 'clocks with out 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, mainly due to a passage by Johann Cochlaus in 1511.<br />
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Peter Hele, still a young man, fashions works which even probably the most learned mathematicians admire. He shapes many-wheeled clocks out of little bits of iron, which run and chime the hours with out weights for forty hours, whether or not carried in the breast or in a handbag<br />
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and because he was popularized in a 19th century novel. However, numerous German clockmakers had been creating miniature timepieces throughout this period, and there is no evidence Henlein was the first. Also, watches weren't widely worn in pockets till the 17th century.<br />
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The first timepieces to be worn, produced in 16th century Europe, were transitional in size in between clocks and watches. These 'clock-watches' were fastened to clothing or worn on a chain about the neck. They were heavy drum shaped cylindrical brass boxes several inches in diameter, engraved and ornamented. They had only an hour hand. The face was not covered with glass, but usually had a hinged brass cover, frequently decoratively pierced with grillwork so the time could be read without opening. The movement was produced of iron or steel and held together with tapered pins and wedges, until screws began to become used after 1550. Numerous from the movements included striking or alarm mechanisms. They usually had to be wound twice a day. How [http://www.kristinefry.com/psychic/psychic psychic]!</div>Peanuts Bangaroo