Sunday, August 7, 2011
wimaladharma Brothers New Service Center
Wimaladharma Brothers (pvt)Ltd Opens there new SEIKO Watch service center in Colombo.It builds new Technology and it is the only place in Sri Lanka to repair your SEIKO Wrist Watch.Wimaladharma Brothers is the SEIKO agents in Sri Lanka.
Friday, February 26, 2010
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Watch Reparing Companies...
Did you want to repair your Grand Father clock ? Contact us. Eashan Brothers(pvt)Ltd.
113/1A Maharagama Road,
Mawiththara,
Piliyandala.
Phone :- +94117220593 +94777623232
eashan_brothers@yahoo.com
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
WATCH HISTORY.
1500s : In Germany : Peter Henlein creates the first pocket watch.
1485 : Leonardo da Vinci sketches a fusee for a clock.
Early 1600s : Form watches becoming popular. Cases are shaped like animals and objects. Religious themes are popular.
1635 : Around this time that the fusee was adapted from clocks to watches.
1659 - 1675 : Christian Huygens invents the "Remontoire".
1687 : Daniel Quare patents the repeating mechanism that uses bells to sound quarter hours and the hours.
1704 : Peter and Jacob Debaufre, Nicolas Facio, are the first to use rubies in watch movements.
1750 : Watch makers began using enamel on watch dials.
1759 : Thomas Mudge invents the English lever escapement.
1775 : Abraham Louis Breguet sets up his own watch making shop in Paris, France.
1780 : Abraham Louis Perrelet invents the self winding movement.
1786 : Breguet is the first to use guilloche on watch dials.
1791 : J.F. Bautte founded the watch company that would eventually become Girard-Perregaux.
1807 : Thomas Young invents the recording chronograph.
1809 : Luther Goddard of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts is the first watch manufacturer in America.
1820 : Thomas Prest registers a patent for the self winding watch.
1833 : Antoine LeCoultre starts his own watchmaking business which later become Jaeger-LeCoultre.
1837 : First Tiffany store opens.
1843: Adrien Philippe develops a watch with winding and setting through the crown.
1844 : The start, stop, and reset chronograph is invented by Adolph Nicole.
1844 : Antoine LeCoultre invents the millionometre.
1848 : Louis Brandt opens his own workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds which eventually became the Omega Watch Company.
1853 : Tissot makes the first dual time zone watch.
1858 : Minerva is founded.
1860 : Heuer is founded.
1865 : Zenith founded.
1881 : Movado founded.
1884 : Greenwich, England is officially named the zero meridian and used as the world wide recognized basis of time zones.
1886 : Geneva Seal established.
1894 : Universal Geneve established.
1905 : Hans Wilsdorf starts the Rolex Watch Company.
1914 : Eterna introduces the first wristwatch with an alarm.
1918 : Japan : Shakosha Watch Company opened. This would become Citizen in 1931.
1923 : John Harwood is the first to mass produce a self winding wristwatch.
1924 : Tokyo : Seiko brand name is launched by Kinttaro Hattori.
1926 : Rolex introduces the first waterproof case called the "Oyster".
1929 : First anti magnetic watch created by Tissot.
1933 : Ingersoll introduces the "Mickey Mouse" watch.
1956 : Rolex introduces their first model that displays the day and date.
1957 : Hamilton introduces the world's first battery driven watch.
1962 : Rado produces the world's first scratch proof watch called the "Diastar 1".
1962 : ETA of Switzerland develops the first quartz battery operated watch.
1970 : Hamilton releases the "Pulsar", the first electronic digital watch.
1972 : Longines and Seiko introduce the LCD, (Liquid Crystal Display).
1980 : Hublot founded.
1983 : SMH of Switzerland launches the Swatch brand.
1985 : Swiss Heuer Company merges with TAG to form TAG Heuer.
1986 : Audemars Piguet introduces the first self winding tourbillon.
1991 : Franck Muller founded.
1999 : Casio innovates with the first wristwatch with a built-in Global Positioning System (GPS).
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Watch Makers.
Seiko :- http://caliber.seikowatches.com
Orient :- www.orient-watch.com .
Roamer :- www.roamer.ch . E-mail :- info@rrtime.ch .
Westar :- www.westarwatches.com E-mail :- info@westarwatches.com
Kolber :- www.kolber.ch E-mail :- kolber@kolber.ch
Patek Philippe :- www.patek.com .
Orient :- www.orient-watch.com .
Roamer :- www.roamer.ch . E-mail :- info@rrtime.ch .
Westar :- www.westarwatches.com E-mail :- info@westarwatches.com
Kolber :- www.kolber.ch E-mail :- kolber@kolber.ch
Patek Philippe :- www.patek.com .
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Watch Reparing Companies...
Did you want to repair your Grand Father clock ? Contact us. Eashan Brothers(pvt)Ltd.
113/1A Maharagama Road,
Mawiththara,
Piliyandala.
Phone :- +94117220593
+94777623232
eashan_brothers@yahoo.com
113/1A Maharagama Road,
Mawiththara,
Piliyandala.
Phone :- +94117220593
+94777623232
eashan_brothers@yahoo.com
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Reputed Agents in Sri Lanka.
1. Roamer :- Wimaladharma Brothers(pvt)Ltd.
2. Swister :- 120 Front street, Colombo 11.
3. Seiko :- +94112325613
4. Titan :- Abans Private Limited. 498 Galle Road, Colombo -03
5. Citizen :- Citizen service center Darly road, colombo 10
6. Raymond Wheel :- W.A.de Silva(pvt)Ltd. 46 Front street colombo 11
7. Rado :-
8. Colber :-
9. Rollex :- Tharaka Enterprises(pvt)Ltd.
10. Westar :- Mallika Hemachandra Jewelaries(pvt)Ltd. 11. Omax :- Omax sri lanka(pvt)Ltd.
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