The movement archive - the original since 1997
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Poljot 2415
This early, ultra flat selfwinding movement, where the rotor is larger than the movement, is also known under the name "Orbita".
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HMT 0180A
Another license build from India is this windup form movement for ladies' watches, originally from Citizen.
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HMT 1809
This Citizen movement was produced in India under a license and used in HMT gents watches.
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Luch 1809
Like the popular tiny ETA movements at that time, this 18mm windup movement from Russia has got no center minute wheel any more.
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Zaria 2014A
This russian windup movement with a diameter of 20mm and date indication is again a very unique constructed one.
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Luch 1814
Like the popular tiny ETA movements at that time, this 18mm windup movement from Russia has got no center minute wheel any more.
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Poljot 2616.2H
The last, third iteration, seen on the suffix ".2H", which stands for "second relaunch", of the russian selfwinding caliber with date indication not only offers an interesting selfwinding mechanism, …
more....About the movement archive
In the past, especially between 1930 and 1980 more than 10.000 different movements were made, some in a million copies. The advent of the quartz watch in the 1970 terminated that impressive series, and the greatest part of those movements has not existed for a long time.
The movement archive on 17jewels.info, whose origins date back to the year 1997 (under a different name), should counteract further oblivion and show how diverse mechanical movements once were.
Of course it can never show the complete stock of all movements ever made, nevertheless, almost every week, new movements are archived and shown with detailed articles. Currently, more than 1364 different movements found their way into the archive and are at at least virtually accessible to posterity.
You can directly access the movement by the “movements” menu.
Besides the movements there are other pages, which complement the topic “mechanical watches”, such as a collection of Timex watches, some loose articles in the Magazine and Knowledge sections, a few datasheets and some other workbench related articles.
The archive lives from permanently acquiring yet unarchived movements, to catalogue and put them online. Who wants to support it with a small dontion, can get a “supporters” page as thanks.
Have fun exploring the world of mechanical movements!