The movement archive
Recent additions
FHF 32
In the early 1950s, FHF made this tiny high quality winding movement with a Glucydur screw balance.
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Felsa 4002
This selfwinding movement is a prime example for the high quality, which Felsa was famous for.
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AS 1237/38
A rather simple movement for AS standards, here in the export version with only 7 jewels.
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Thiel Darling
The version shown here is part of the movement family "Darling" from the 1930ies.
more....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 899 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!