The movement archive - the original since 1997
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Recent additions
Zaria 2009B
The modern, unconventionally constructed 8 3/4 ligne movement with center seconds was made by Zaria well into the 2000s
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HMT 8205
The Indial licensed reproduction of the familiear selfwinding caliber Citizen/Miyota 8205
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Raketa 2609.HA
The update (A) of the second version (.H) of the russian 26mm windup movement, made by Raketa.
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Sea-Gull ST3600
A chinese 1:1 copy of the ubiquituous swiss Unitas/ETA 6497, usually made for pocket watches, now used in larger wrist watches.
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Raketa 2614.H
This caliber is the updated version of the russian 26mm caliber Raketa 2614 and has got a date indication with instant switch.
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Raketa 2609A
This movement is the improved version of the 11 1/2 ligne windup movement from russia.
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Certina 260
From the 1940s dates this beautiful swiss Lepine pocket watch movement from Certina.
more....About the movement archive
In the past, especially between 1930 and 1980 more than 10.000 different movements were made, some in a million copies. The advent of the quartz watch in the 1970 terminated that impressive series, and the greatest part of those movements has not existed for a long time.
The movement archive on 17jewels.info, whose origins date back to the year 1997 (under a different name), should counteract further oblivion and show how diverse mechanical movements once were.
Of course it can never show the complete stock of all movements ever made, nevertheless, almost every week, new movements are archived and shown with detailed articles. Currently, more than 1353 different movements found their way into the archive and are at at least virtually accessible to posterity.
You can directly access the movement by the “movements” menu.
Besides the movements there are other pages, which complement the topic “mechanical watches”, such as a collection of Timex watches, some loose articles in the Magazine and Knowledge sections, a few datasheets and some other workbench related articles.
The archive lives from permanently acquiring yet unarchived movements, to catalogue and put them online. Who wants to support it with a small dontion, can get a “supporters” page as thanks.
Have fun exploring the world of mechanical movements!