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Show muscular expansion and contraction of the wrist and one was devised with a hinged cover which was geared to a selfwinding device. Every time the wearer lifted the" cover to see the time, he wound his watch. - As these systems proved unsa T1 Salt Lake Tribane, Sunday, May 16, 1965 10 13 -- Watch in a Is Th t m . h Self-Windin- e" g thinnest watch ever made measures 2.3 millimeters in width or .0916 inches, just about the thinness of a dime, according to the Watchmakers of Switzerland. This narrow gauge holds not only standard watch parts but rotor which also the in itself used to be a bulky affair. Now, its been reduced to a sliver of its former self. The timepiece is devthe ultimate in "labor-savin- g ices, said a spokesman for the Watchmakers of Switzerland. It saves the wearer only a few seconds a day and a few twists of the fingers. Yet watch inventors have worked on it for nearly two centuries. New Ideas Many ideas have been pro- -, posed to wind timepieces automatically. One of the earliest was a house clock rewound by a drive shaft which ran through the ceiling to the roof where it was turned by a weather vane. Another was a 'clock powered by a jet of water playing on a small waterwheel. Still other ideas suggested the opening and closing of doors and desk drawers to keep the mainspring g g Skrletoa watch . . . yon can let the time its keeping. Plus a fine line of good- - but A inexpensive-watch- es. vT homo owned store in which yen con afford to buy. GIFT WRAP FREE 308 E. DIAL 1st South 364-897- Happiness tit Graduation were wound by; changes fa the temperature, changes in atmospheric pressure and by the expansion of gas (a cubic centimeter of propane gas was stored in thin chambers concealed fa the wrist strap). - 'Is Spelled BULOVA E? get youn at , New Tangents In the thirties, the search ran off on several new tangents. watches were developed which harnessed the Self-windi- for graduation 241 I. K. LUKER JEWELRY DIAMOND RINGS & JEWELRY 1306 West 4th -- North, ... A WITTNAUER from DAYNES inventions became more ingenious. Clocks our new collection of m-v- ew LONGINES The World's MostHonored Watch Jo remem her The ymbo! of excellence and elegance throughout the world is demonstrated in every watch in our Longines collection. Come in and let us show you the World's Most Honored Watch . . winner of 10 world's fair grand prizes and 28 gold medals I i iM . . . in years to come 12S Distinguished companion to the world honored Longines every Wittnauer is artistically executed and unerringly accurate. i 9 l Other Longtnet $73 to $3000 prices plus tax II fcvVWAJth. m JEWELRY CO. 41 WIST 2ND, tOVTM Jeweler hr LwngUm ami Win COMPANY 128 South Moin Street M9MI Al?lAIICITTl,fA frmtUeed JEWELRY franchised Jewel Watch 95 . . FINE WATCH REPAIRING S.L.C., EL wound. As time went on, 2 REE PARKING right in front of our store. come tisfactory, Inventors turned back to an idea that had been suggested as early as 1770 an automatic watch with a pivoted weight. Whenever the watch was moved, the weight swung around its pivot gnd wound the mainspring. Salt Lake City, Utah for Longinet and Wittnauer Watches |