Stainless steel, blue dial with lacquered finish, white display discs, rhodium plated seconds hand (Ref. IW505001) (current price ~ $50K)ġ8-carat 5N (red) gold, white dial with lacquered finish, white display discs, blued seconds hand (Ref. Platinum, white dial with lacquered finish, blue display discs, blued seconds hand (Ref. It was released as a limited edition of 25 watches in platinum, 250 in 5N gold and 500 in stainless steel. One of the most iconic of these heritage releases has to be the IWC Tribute to Pallweber Edition “150 Years” - the first wristwatch by IWC to feature a jump number digital display. These timepieces carry the Anniversary medallion “150 Years” as either an engraving on the mechanism or as a medallion. The Pallweber name was recently reintroduced to the world by IWC.Ĭelebrating its 150th Anniversary, IWC released 27 new timepieces during the SIHH 2018 - Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie. Josef Pallweber died on 28 January, 1921, in Mannheim, shortly before his 63rd birthday.
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By 1911, the patents shifted focus to alarmed portable cash boxes. On October 1, 1908, Pallweber left the company, and Bordt became sole proprietor.Īfter leaving the Adix Company in 1908, Pallweber established a company for technical inventions and patented an "alarm device for portable cassettes and similar containers". Pallweber co-founded the company Adix Company Pallweber & Bordt of Mannheim, Germany, which was entered into the commercial register on Octoand produced calculating machines. Inventions he worked on there included digital wall, table and grandfather clocks from his 1883 patent, as well as a cash register and a full-keyboard, printing adding machine. There he married Lina (Magdalena) Mack on August 16, 1886.Īround 1890 Pallweber moved to Furtwangen, Germany and from the mid-1890s until about 1904 he worked at the Frankfurter Fabrik Mechanischer Apparate in Frankfurt. Pallweber was employed as a watchmaker in Salzburg until 1886 when he relocated to Mannheim, Germany. (IWC stand for: International Watch Company, Schaffhausen, Switzerland). They were produced by IWC from 1885-1887 (as well by by other watch makers) and are considered to be among the most famous of IWC pocket watches.
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In 1883 Josef Pallweber patented the first known digital clock which used rotating flat disks displaying the time through two windows (one for the hours and a separate one for the minutes).īy no later than 1884 the world's first digital pocket watches were created using a Pallweber (jump number) design.
Josef Benedikt Pallweber was born on 7 February, 1858, in Schörfling am Attersee bei Vöcklabruck, in Upper Austria and died on January 28, 1921, in Mannheim, Germany shortly before he would have turned 63. The Father of the Flip Clock - Josef Pallweber
These clocks were very ornate, as was the practice of the Lenzkirch clock makers, and interestingly enough - the first flip clock was a pendulum clock. Using the Pallweber design, The German Lenzkirch Clock Factory (Aktiengesellschaft für Uhrenfabrikation Lenzkirch) crafted the world's first flip clock in 1894. Pallweber's patent was first described to the public in the Decemissue of The German Journal for Clock-Makers (Deutsche Uhrmacher Zeitung) and the production announced in the journal exactly 3 years later in 1893. View Translation from German to English by Flip Clock Fans (pdf). Image combined and cleaned up by Flip Clock Fans from the original (pdf) 54093 on Octofor his "Uhr mit Zahlenwechsel durch Herabfallen doppelseitig bezifferter Täfelchen" (Clock with numbers changing by falling double-sided numbered tablets). Josef Pallweber was issued German patent No. The first flip clock was conceived by Austrian inventor and engineer Josef Pallweber in 1890 and produced in Lenzkirch, Germany by the world-renowned Lenzkirch Clock Factory between 1893-1894.
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