The movement archive
Recent additions
Cyma 384.K
A exceptionally well made windup movement from switzerland with an interesting inhouse shock protection
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Bifora 2025
The first form lever movement by Bidlingmaier, probably the first german form lever movement with pallets at all.
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ETA 2824-2
One of the movements with the highest production figures and one of the most often copied movements, which is made since 1971 without interruption.
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Meylan ?
This, unfortunately unmarked, pocket watch movement from Meylan around 1900 is of exceptionally high quality
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Chaika 1600
One of the smallest windup movements from the USSR was the Chaika 1600 with a diameter of only 16mm.
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About the movement archive
In the past, especially between 1930 and 1970 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 should counteract further oblivion and show how diverse mechanical movements once were.
Of course it can never hole the complete stock of all movement ever made, yet almost every week, new movements are archived and shown more or less detailed. Currently, more than 843 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, a few documents and some 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!