The movement archive - the original since 1997
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Seiko 7009A
Especially in the 1980s, this selfwinding movement powered the gents watches of the Seiko-5 series. It uses the so-called "Magic Lever" excenter selfwinding mechanism.
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Raketa 3056A
This is one of the earliest true quartz movement from Russia, here in its reworked version (hence the "A" suffix) with a Lavet stepper motor.
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ZIM ChK-6
The french caliber LIP R43 was used as blueprint for the mass production of russian pocket watch movement. The caliber ChK-6 was initially called "ZIM", before it was also made in other factories, …
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Buren 481
This caliber belongs to the high quality "Grand Prix" movements from Buren. It has got a center seconds indication and a very interesting mainspring barrel bearing mechanism.
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Parrenin 25
A pretty common french form movement, which still has got the old long rectangular shape of the 1950s.
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AS 1950 (ST)
This 11 1/2 ligne windup movement with a technically interesting decentral minute wheel belongs to the series of "Standard" movements from the Ebauches SA.
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Eppler 6
Of the many Eppler pin lever movements, which were often, mainly in the 1970s used in character watches, the Eppler 6 with its fixed hairspring stud was the base caliber.
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Baumgartner 582
a rather late pin lever movement, made in Switzerland, with a Roskopf-like construction. It was also available in a skeletonized version.
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 1357 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!