The movement archive - the original since 1997

A large number of samples of the movement production heyday, the 20th century, is displayed here. Currenty, 1354 movements from 186 manufacturers wait for your discovery, and their number steadily increases week by week. 969 movements are described in own, mostly very detailled articles.
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Recent additions

20.04.2025
: Zaria 1800

Zaria 1800

A popular windup movement for ladies' watches, made in Russia.

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13.04.2025
: Slava 2356

Slava 2356

In the mid 1980s, this extra flat and modern russian quartz movement was launched.

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06.04.2025
: HMT 0231

HMT 0231

From India is this license build of the simple 11 1/2 ligne windup caliber Citizen 0201.

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30.03.2025
: Zaria 2009B

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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23.03.2025
: HMT 8205

HMT 8205

The Indial licensed reproduction of the familiear selfwinding caliber Citizen/Miyota 8205

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16.03.2025
: Raketa 2609.HA

Raketa 2609.HA

The update (A) of the second version (.H) of the russian 26mm windup movement, made by Raketa.

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08.03.2025
: Seiko 1520B

Seiko 1520B

A japanese baguette windup movement with a width of less than one centimeter!

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02.03.2025
: Sea-Gull ST3600

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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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 1354 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!