High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Watches evolved from portable spring driven clocks, which first appeared in 15th century Europe. Portable timepieces were made possible by the invention of the mainspring. Although some sources erroneously credit Nuremberg clockmaker Peter Henlein (or Henle or Hele) with inventing the mainspring around 1511, many references to 'clocks without weights' and two surviving examples show that spring powered clocks appeared in the 15th century. Henlein was a well-known craftsman of early "clock-watches" (taschenuhr), ornamental timepieces worn as pendants which were the first timepieces to be worn on the body. He is often credited as the inventor of the watch, mostly because of a passage by Johann Cochlaus in 1511: Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная...

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