Ron_W
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According to his son also, Fortis took on production and Harwood oversaw production, but he believed Blancpain also had a license. http://qp.granularit.com/media/38316/Harwood.pdf
May 05, 2020,13:04 PM
“It should have been the invention that made
my father a fortune – after he had perfected the
design he left the Isle of Man and moved to London
because it was easier to commute back and forth
to Switzerland. He managed to get Fortis to take
the design on and he supervised its manufacture.
I believe Blancpain also had a licence to make a
modified version of the movement.
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Well not quite
By: Tick Talk : May 5th, 2020-07:34
World's first automatic wristwatch? Chapuis and Jaquet's History of the Self-Winding Watch - 1770 to 1931, pg. 212: L. Leroy & Cie. are credited with the first automatic wrist watches in 1922, using their "Système de remontage automatique". One came up fo...
1931 or 1935
By: Tick Talk : May 5th, 2020-08:45
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LOL, that's funny
By: Tick Talk : May 5th, 2020-15:08
they also "apologized" to Smiths for claiming Everest. The marketing dept obviously figured that publicity at the time far outweighed a mea culpa later on. Still today they don't discourage this myth, helps that Smiths is kaput of course. ...
sorry for the delay
By: Tick Talk : May 9th, 2020-09:40
British Horological Journal, October 1953
From the www.blancpain.com site, on page 12 out of 88 , it says :
By: Ron_W : May 5th, 2020-10:24
On the movement side, Frédéric-Emile was particularly fascinated by the challenges of automatic winding. In the mid-1920s he made the acquaintance of a British watchmaker, John Harwood who had been working on bringing an automatic winding system, then sol...