The movement archive - the original since 1997

A large number of samples of the movement production heyday, the 20th century, is displayed here. Currenty, 1323 movements from 185 manufacturers wait for your discovery, and their number steadily increases week by week. 929 movements are described in own, mostly very detailled articles.
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Recent additions

13.10.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: Molnija ChK-6

Molnija ChK-6

The predecessor of the well-known Molnija 3602 is the beautiful caliber ChK-6 from the 1950s, which was made in the Chelyabinsk factory.

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06.10.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: Lorsa 8F

Lorsa 8F

This 6 3/4 ligne from movement is of french origin, too.

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29.09.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: FE 163

FE 163

A common french form movement for ladies' watches

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21.09.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: Ronda 1011-21

Ronda 1011-21

This swiss pin lever movement uses plastic balance wheel bearings.

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14.09.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: AS 1012

AS 1012

A very popular, tonneau-shaped 5 1/2 ligne ladies' watch caliber.

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07.09.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: China 2650G

China 2650G

The timegrapher performance of this simple chinese skeleton movement is more than astonishing!

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31.08.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: ESA 963.126

ESA 963.126

One of the last movements, produced by FHF was the ESA 963.126, a modern quartz movement with day-date indication from the early 1980s.

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25.08.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: Timex M116

Timex M116

On the latest Timex movements, a pin lever windup caliber with center seconds indication.

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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 1323 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!