The movement archive - the original since 1997 
A large number of samples of the small movements production heyday, the 20th century, is displayed here. Currenty, 1393 movements from 192 manufacturers wait for your discovery, and their number steadily increases week by week. 1109 movements are described in own, mostly very detailled articles. All without AI, but with original photos of the physically available specimen in the archive. Have fun!
Recent additions
Citizen 4103
The similarities with the swiss FHF 65 are pretty obvious on this japanses movement with ring rotor.
Junghans 669.31
Still "Made in Germany" is this quartz movement with date indication from around 1980.
Bettinelli De Vecchi Model No.1
This 11 1/2 ligne movement with cylinder escapement was installed in a ladies' pendant watch that had been converted into a wristwatch
ETA 2472
This very popular selfwinding movement with instantly switching date indication was made for 18 years.
Förster 2075
One of Förster's earliest, still tonneau-shaped, lever movements dates back to the 1930s.
In the past, especially between 1930 and 1980 more than 10.000 different small movements were made, some in a million copies. The advent of the quartz watch in the 1970 terminated that impressive series, and the greatest part of those movements has not existed for a long time.
The movement archive on 17jewels.info, whose origins date back to the year 1997 (under a different name), should counteract further oblivion and show how diverse mechanical movements once were.
Of course it can never show the complete stock of all movements ever made, nevertheless, almost every week, new movements are archived and shown with detailed articles. Currently, more than 1393 different movements found their way into the archive and are at at least virtually accessible to posterity.
You can directly access the movement by the “movements” menu.
Besides the movements there are other pages, which complement the topic “mechanical watches”, such as a collection of Timex watches, some loose articles in the Magazine and Knowledge sections, a few datasheets and some other workbench related articles.
The archive lives from permanently acquiring yet unarchived movements, to catalogue and put them online. Who wants to support it with a small dontion, can get a “supporters” page as thanks.
Have fun exploring the world of mechanical movements!