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The world's best at affordable prices. All polorised timepieces have been hand-selected from local and international suppliers
and backed up by full manufacturer warranties where applicable. These watches are brand
new guaranteed.
IMPORTANT: There
has been a number of watch sellers based overseas listing
items locally within the ebay.com.au site. These items
are falsely listed as located
within Australia, but in reality- items are shipped from overseas indicative
of the extra postage charges. Also to note is; customs clearance and extra
duties are often required/payable for these goods to enter Australia.
Please keep this in mind.
POLORISED items are posted within the
Australian Post Network
BRANDS WE STOCK:
Designer Timepieces [Emporio Armani, Burberry, Diesel, Guess, Nautica, Ecko]
NEWS :
We have expanded to offer Gucci, Rado and Longines.
Into Time...
( Time is the coin of
your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how
it will be spent. Be careful lest
you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
( We must use time as
a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
( The best thing about
the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
President Abraham Lincoln
(1809 - 1865) (
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life
is made of
Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790) (
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) (
Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
( Time cools, time clarifies;
no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) (
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin (1840 - 1917)
( Time is the most valuable
thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus (300 BC - 287
BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives
of Eminent Philosophers
Which is...
Aristotle provides an early, careful answer to the question "What
is time?" when he says time is the "number of movement in respect
of the before and after, and is continuous.... In respect of size there
is no minimum; for every line is divided ad infinitum. Hence it is so
with time." [Physics, 220a] Occasionally Aristotle speaks as if time
were motion, but in these passages, he also asserts that time, though
linked to motion, is neither the circular motion of the heavens nor any
other motion. He believes time is something by which we measure motion.
and we attempt to
measure from...
1500s : 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
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
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 whichbecame
the Omega Watch Company
1853 : Tissot makes the first dual time zone watch
1884 : Greenwich, England is officially named the zero meridian
and recognized basis of time zones
1886 : Geneva Seal 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
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
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
1999 : Casio innovates with the first wristwatch with a built-in Global
Positioning System (GPS)
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