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the earliest document on automatic watches?

By Richard Watkins

2013, 6 pages, 3 ill

This article describes the discovery of what is, at present, the earliest significant document which reports on automatic watches (self-winding watches).

Before now, the earliest known document was dated August 1775. The document just located is dated May 1773.