Talk:Pocket watch
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I think the pop culture references section should include the infamous Christopher Walken scene in PULP FICTION.
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. Perhaps someone should look into this?
Also, in the Watch article it states "In the In 1524, Peter Henlein created the first pocket watch", but doesn't list any decent references. I wonder if anyone has solid dates on this matter.
I have swapped around the first two paragraphs so the summary of the pocket watch's history comes after a description of it. I think it reads more easily like this.
I've made some changes to the distinction between open faced and hunter cased pocket watches. 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. 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. 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. No lepines type movements where ever produced in the United States. I'll work out a page specifically about l'Epine type watches and their development over the 125 odd years they where made. The words savonette is just the french (and italian) word for a hunter case watch.
[edit] more information please
Hi i know nothing about pocket watches so have come here to learn more, specifically what all the "jewel" stuff is about. what does 7 jewel, 14 jewel mean? and what is a fusee movement or a limit movement? anyone care to add more of that sort of info? thanks.Bawdekin 20:28, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
what direction does one wind the crown-wind pocket watch, are they all clockwise or are some anti-clockwise? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.106.12 (talk) 17:59, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
