Watch knowledge: Jump Hour

New Watch Models Report: Today's hopping watch (Jump Hour) originated in the eighteenth century England George Graham, 1740 years he produced a series of Regulator Clock (three-pin line precision of clock time by astronomical standards), which has a small window to use with digital dial to display hour, has become the ancestor of today's jump watch. 1820 and 30 years, there have been hopping watch a short period of a brilliant and popular, but other times the 19th century, but had only maintain a small production of it; but the late nineteenth century, many people still jump to further develop the combined displayed when the pocket watch with jumping hours, heritage and developed the technology to display when jumping.

The Art Deco period of the last century, once again jump jump when the watch is displayed when the condenser re-registered watch making stage. Some watch giants such as Cartier and Audemars Piguet, watches began production of TH; but after the Great Depression and World War II. And the end of this a short recovery. In the 1970s, but also because the rise of a fully digital display hours, minutes, seconds, quartz digital watches, mechanical watches jump more diminished in the old.

Now refer to the watch jump, most people come to mind most often is probably the Gerald Genta brand name or Chronoswiss. But in fact, jump watchs should be attributed to a recent revival in 1989 launched two limited hopping watch: First, Breguet's Saltarello Souscription (50 only), the other is Patek Philippe's Tonneau 3969 (500 only).

The present altar watch, watch hopping Gerald Genta best known for the variety of the Delphis Chronoswiss Jumping Hour and design philosophy can be traced back to the source, in the process known around the world, specializes in the production of complex mechanical watches Vacheron Constantin Manufacture The Les Complications series Saltarello. Saltarello to figures in the 12 o'clock hour with a small window below the large fan with a retrograde minute display against the jump pointer to build there and most of this Chronoswiss Delphis Gerald Genta jump the basic elements of the watch.

Since then, the mechanical watch revival and rejuvenation market, competition results, a number of other new entrants to the brand, have jumped into the ranks of the time watch making. For example Dubey & Schaldenbrand and invited Vincent Calabrese of the Bell & Ross, have introduced a new jump watch, so like the one-eyed fans can not help but hi bounce from watch to. Perhaps, another wave of jump watch pandemic is brewing him? watch fans may wish to wait and see.

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