The history of watches

When did human beings have the concept of "time"? Next, let me take you to explore the long history of watches.

The ancient ancestors of mankind were the first to know the passage of time from changes in light. About 6,000 years ago, the "clock" entered the stage of human history for the first time: the sundial was born in the kingdom of Babylon. The ancients used sundials to keep track of the time according to the length and orientation of the sun's shadow. 4,000 years ago, the hourglass came out, allowing people to know the time day and night.The emergence of clocks and clocks is a matter after the middle of the thirteenth century.

The early mechanical clock appeared in northern Italy and South Germany around 1270. It was powered by a scale hammer and sounded the attached clock every hour to automatically tell the time.

In 1336, the first public clock was installed in a church in Milan. In the next half century, the clock spread to European countries, and churches in France, Germany and Italy built bell towers one after another. Soon, clockwork technology was invented, and the size of the clock was greatly reduced.

New technologies in watch manufacturing emerge one after another, but mechanical watches have not died. Although the output has decreased greatly, the manufacturing technology has been preserved. In particular, Swiss watch manufacturers still have a special preference for manipulator expression when quartz watches dominate today. They adhere to the production of high-end mechanical watches and continuously export them to all parts of the world.