The movement archive - the original since 1997

A large number of samples of the movement production heyday, the 20th century, is displayed here. Currenty, 1277 movements from 180 manufacturers wait for your discovery, and their number steadily increases week by week. 901 movements are described in own, mostly very detailled articles.
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Recent additions

17.03.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: Raketa 2627.H

Raketa 2627.H

The maximum version of the Raeketa 2601.H caliber familiy with a day-date indication and a selfwinding mechanism.

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10.03.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: Raketa 2209

Raketa 2209

Why?
This is probably the most often asked question by looking at this only 2.7mm flat russian windup movement.

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03.03.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: Junghans J90

Junghans J90

One of only two cylinder movements, which Junghans produced, made in the 1930s.

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25.02.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: AHO 555
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AHO 555

A rare to find 5 1/4 ligne windup form movement for ladies' watches from the 1960s.

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18.02.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: DuRoWe 72

DuRoWe 72

A totally typical 5 1/2 ligne windup movement from the 1960s for tiny ladies' watches, made in Germany.

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11.02.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: GUB 63.4

GUB 63.4

This caliber from the 1960s has got its origin in the Urofa caliber 542 from the 1930s.

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11.02.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: ETA 1080

ETA 1080

A conventionally constructed windup movement from 1950.

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04.02.2024
17jewels.info - The Movement Archive: GUB 08-20

GUB 08-20

The predecessor of the very successful caliber 09-20 was only made for three years.

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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 1277 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!