Swiss John Harwood in 1923. it was used to stop work and start prayer back in the old day
By 'automatic', do you mean self-winding? And do you mean in a state of weightlessness? I believe it would, as long as someone is wearing it. Wrist movements cause a self-winding mechanism to work based on the inertia of the weights within the watch. Inertia is a property of mass, and it does not go away in the absence of gravity. Battery powered and ordinary manually wound watches would also work, I believe.
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Patek Phillipe invented the wristwatch
The wrist watch was invented by the Swiss watch maker, Patek Phillippe in the late 1800s
Walter Guyton Cady
Most self-winding watches have mechanisms to prevent overwinding.
You don't have to turn the switch on the watch to keep it running.
There's a relatively heavy part within each self winding watch, which responds to changes in gravity. This piece will always want to point down. As the watch is worn during the day, it winds itself.
It depends on your watch.
Abraham-Louis Perrelet in 1770 is the common answer, making a pocketwatch that was self-winding. The first automatic wrist watches were invented by John Harwood in 1923.
A self-winding watch will have the rotor (a spinning weight) inside the caseback (the "lid" on the underside of the watch), which for some particular makes and models do not have a display caseback (a caseback with a window to show the rotor and the movement) makes it difficult to identify.
One type of watch is known as the "self-winding" or "automatic watch," which winds itself using the natural motion of the wearer. Movement rotates a winding rotor, which winds the watch via a ratchet. Other analog watches also bear self-moving parts, though for most this merely consists of the watch hands and associated gears.
Bulova invented the Accutron tuning fork watch movement. Noo winding, no ticking and unsurpassed accuracy, untill the Japanese invented the quartz movement.
Rolex
If the watch is relatively new or still within its warranty period then it may be returned to the manufacturer for repair. Otherwise, it could be taken to a specialist watch and jewellery repair workshop.
A Self-Winding Sidewinder - 1973 was released on: USA: 9 October 1973
Winding a watch is actually the process of storing kinetic energy. This energy is released as the watch winds down telling the time.