Types of Watch Movements
Types Of Watch Movements is a structured fashion & beauty dataset with 15 entries. Its fields include Movement, Power Source, Accuracy. The source values are preserved as a structured reference table.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 15 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Apr 9, 2026
Included fields: Movement, Power Source, Accuracy, Invented, Notes.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Accuracy groups
- 12 distinct values
- Across 15 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Movement, Power Source, and Accuracy across fashion & beauty entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 15 downloadable records
Movement↕ | Power Source↕ | Accuracy↕ | Invented↕ | Notes↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hand-Wound Mechanical | Manually wound mainspring | +/- 5-20 seconds per day | 1500s (Peter Henlein) | The purist's choice, requires daily winding, oldest form of portable timekeeping |
Automatic (Self-Winding) | Rotor winds mainspring with wrist motion | +/- 5-20 seconds per day | 1770s by Abraham-Louis Perrelet | No daily winding if worn regularly, the standard for modern mechanical watches |
Quartz | Battery powers quartz crystal oscillator | +/- 15 seconds per month | 1969 Seiko Astron | Revolutionized watchmaking overnight, cheap and extremely accurate, killed most Swiss makers in the quartz crisis |
High-Accuracy Quartz | Thermo-compensated quartz | +/- 10 seconds per year | 1970s Citizen, Grand Seiko | Temperature-compensated, nearly perfect accuracy, Grand Seiko 9F calibre legendary |
Kinetic (Auto Quartz) | Wrist motion charges capacitor | +/- 15 seconds per month | 1986 Seiko | Mechanical rotor generates electricity, no battery changes needed, hybrid concept |
Spring Drive | Mainspring with electronic regulator | +/- 1 second per day | 1999 Seiko/Grand Seiko | Mechanical power with quartz accuracy, smooth glide seconds hand, Japan's horological masterpiece |
Solar Quartz (Eco-Drive) | Light charges rechargeable cell | +/- 15 seconds per month | 1976 Citizen | Any light source powers it, Citizen Eco-Drive and Seiko Solar, no battery changes |
Radio-Controlled (Atomic) | Quartz synced to atomic clock signals | +/- 1 second per million years | 1990 Junghans Mega | Receives radio signals from atomic clocks nightly, self-correcting |
GPS-Synced | Quartz synced via GPS satellites | Atomic precision | 2012 Seiko Astron GPS | Syncs time and timezone from GPS satellites anywhere on Earth |
Smart (Digital) | Lithium-ion battery | Atomic precision via sync | 2015 Apple Watch | Full computing on the wrist, killed the mid-tier watch market, daily charging |
Tuning Fork (Accutron) | Electric tuning fork vibrating 360 Hz | +/- 2 seconds per day | 1960 Bulova Accutron | Hummed instead of ticked, first electronic watch, worn by astronauts before quartz |
Electric Mechanical | Battery drives balance wheel | +/- 5 seconds per day | 1957 Hamilton Electric | Transitional technology between mechanical and quartz, briefly dominant in late 1950s |
Co-Axial Escapement | Mechanical automatic with co-axial escape | +/- 4 seconds per day | 1999 George Daniels, adopted by Omega | Reduced friction escapement, longer service intervals, Omega's modern signature |
Manufacture In-House | Mechanical, made entirely in-house | COSC certified +/- 4 seconds per day | Ongoing (Rolex, Patek, Lange) | Brand makes every part of the movement, the gold standard for serious collectors |
ETA / Sellita Ebauche | Mechanical, shared third-party base | +/- 10 seconds per day | Mid-20th century | Most affordable Swiss mechanical watches use shared ETA 2824 or Sellita SW200 bases |
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