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Watch School by Smiths Boutique — the story of watchmaking, from the first shadow on stone to the watch on your wrist. A cinematic documentary series, free to watch.
مدرسة الساعات من سميثس بوتيك — حكاية صناعة الساعات، من أول ظلٍّ على الحجر إلى الساعة على معصمك. سلسلة وثائقية سينمائية، مجانية للمشاهدة.
The journey begins — three thousand years of timekeeping in twelve seconds.
تبدأ الرحلة — ثلاثة آلاف سنة من قياس الزمن في اثنتي عشرة ثانية.
Sun, shadow, water and sand — how the Egyptians and Greeks told time long before the first gear ever turned.
شمسٌ وظلٌ وماءٌ ورمل — كيف عرف المصريون والإغريق الوقت قبل أن يدور أول ترسٍ بزمن.
The escapement, the mainspring, Huygens' balance spring — and the 400-year reign of the pocket watch.
الميزان والنابض الرئيسي ونابض هاوكنس — وأربعمئة سنة من حكم ساعة الجيب.
A countess in 1868, a pilot over Paris in 1904, and the trenches of WWI — the true story of how the watch reached your wrist.
كونتيسة عام ١٨٦٨، وطيّار فوق باريس عام ١٩٠٤، وخنادق الحرب العالمية الأولى — القصة الحقيقية لوصول الساعة إلى معصمك.
The earliest known wristwatch was a gold bracelet watch created by Patek Philippe in 1868 for Countess Koscowicz of Hungary.
In 1904, Louis Cartier created a wristwatch for aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont so he could read the time while flying — widely regarded as the watch that made wristwatches fashionable for men.
The oldest known timekeepers are Egyptian shadow clocks and water clocks (clepsydras), used more than 3,000 years ago — long before mechanical clocks appeared in 13th-century Europe.
World War One. Officers strapped watches to their wrists because reaching for a pocket watch in the trenches cost precious seconds — after the war, the wristwatch became standard for men.
Fell in love with mechanical watchmaking? Explore our curated timepieces.
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