The movement archive - the original since 1997
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China DG38xx?
As many chinese movements, this low end selfwinding movement with many hands is not really identifiable.
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Junghans J82/1 (682.72)
Probably the best caliber series of Junghans was the J82, here in its standard version, of which also a successful chronometer version was available.
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Sea-Gull ST2130
This chinese selfwinding movement is a copy of the ETA 2824-2, unfortunately sometimes a bit too much of a copy.
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Chaika 1200
With its size of only 4 x 6 lignes (9.0 x 13.2mm), this is the smallest russian movement ever made, and it has got a some technical oddities because of its size.
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Poljot 2415
This early, ultra flat selfwinding movement, where the rotor is larger than the movement, is also known under the name "Orbita".
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HMT 0180A
Another license build from India is this windup form movement for ladies' watches, originally from Citizen.
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HMT 1809
This Citizen movement was produced in India under a license and used in HMT gents watches.
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 1367 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!