What Is the Watch Industry?

The watch industry is an industry that produces clocks, watches, and various timing instruments. Over the years, the mechanical watch industry has become one of the representative industries in the precision machinery industry.

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The watch industry is an industry that produces clocks, watches, and various timing instruments. Over the years, the mechanical watch industry has become one of the representative industries in the precision machinery industry.

Chinese name

Watch industry

Belong to

Production of clocks, watches and various timing instruments

Types of

industry

Attributes

One of the representative industries

Overview of the development of the watch industry

China's watch industry was developed after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Prior to this, there was no watch industry in China, and the clock industry was not developed. There were only a few clock factories in Yantai, Shanghai and other places. In 1949, there were only 164,000 clocks. Since 1949, not only the clock industry has developed rapidly, but the watch industry has also been established and developed. In 1955, Tianjin and Shanghai successfully trial-produced China's first watch. Now a complete watch industry system has been formed. In addition to the production of daily clocks, it also produces various timers and timers for the national economy, national defense, culture, education, health and other departments, as well as special components, raw materials, appearance parts and special machine tools and instruments used by the clock industry itself. Wait.
In addition to supplying the domestic market, clock products also have a certain number of exports. The export of clocks is relatively large, accounting for about 40% of the total output of clocks. China mainly produces mechanical watches and clocks, and transforms into quartz watches and clocks. The main watch manufacturing factories are in Shanghai, Tianjin, Dandong, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao, Yantai, Xi'an and other places; Zhong's main manufacturing factories are in Yantai, Shanghai, Jinan, Tianjin and other places.

Timeline of watch industry development

The Watch Industry Scientific Research Institute of the Ministry of Light Industry for the watch industry was established in 1963, and the institute has an industry quality inspection, standardization and information center. China Watch Association is an industry organization of the watch industry, established in 1985.
Yantai Wooden Clock Factory The factory was formerly known as the Timing Clock Factory (later renamed Deshunxing Clock Making Factory). It was founded in 1915 and is an earlier clock factory established in China's modern clock industry. Products include pendulum clock and alarm clock. Developed into the 1930s, the products have been sold to places such as the Nanyang Islands.
After 1949, Yantai Clock and Watch Factory was established based on Deshunxing Clock Factory. With the development of production, the production part of pendulum clock was reorganized into Yantai Wooden Clock Factory. The factory's products include two series of Polaris mechanical pendulum clocks and quartz clocks, including table clocks, wall clocks and floor clocks. The mechanical pendulum clock was awarded the National Quality Product Silver Award twice in 1979 and 1983. In 1988, it produced 3.01 million clocks. Products are sold to more than 80 countries and regions.
Shanghai Bell Factory The factory is the largest alarm clock manufacturer in China. Built in 1958, it was formed by the merger of the former Shanghai Hengdeli Clock Factory, Hendali Clock Factory and Dongfang Clock Factory. In addition to the domestic market, the products are exported to more than 100 countries and regions. The products mainly include mechanical alarm clock series, travel clock series, quartz electronic clock series, timer series and other four series. The product trademark is Diamond. In 1987, the mechanical alarm clock won the national silver product quality award. 4.3 million bells were produced in 1988.
The China Bell Factory was built in Shanghai in 1940. At that time it was the China Bell Factory under the China National Products Corporation. The plant is one of the largest factories in China to make pendulum clocks. The main varieties are three series of mechanical pendulum clocks, quartz clocks and industrial clocks, including table clocks, wall clocks, tower clocks, son-mother clocks, floor-standing clocks, etc. The product trademarks are three or five. In addition to satisfying domestic market sales, it also exports to more than 70 countries and regions. In 1983, the mechanical pendulum clock won the National Quality Product Award. In 1988, 1.04 million pendulum clocks were produced.
Shanghai Watch Factory This factory is the largest watch manufacturing factory in China. Established in 1955, the earliest domestic watches were manufactured successively with Tianjin Watch Factory. After the establishment of the factory, Shanghai and Chunlei watches are produced. The factory produces 6 product series including high, medium and low-grade mechanical watches and quartz watches. The varieties include ordinary calendars, double calendars, women's watches, automatic calendars and diving watches. Shanghai and Chunlei watches are sold to dozens of countries and regions in the world. In 1986, Shanghai and Chunlei mechanical men's watches both won national silver awards for quality products. In 1988, 6.32 million watches were produced.
Tianjin Watch Factory Tianjin Watch Factory is one of the earliest manufacturers of watches in China. Built in 1955, the earliest domestic watches were manufactured successively with Shanghai Watch Factory. In 1966, Dongfeng brand mechanical watches were designed and manufactured for the first time, and the Chinese watch industry has embarked on the road of independent design watches since then. Now it produces two kinds of men's and women's mechanical watches and quartz watches with 5 models and 12 varieties. Among them, the Seagull mechanical female watch won the National Quality Product Silver Award in 1986. The factory's products are sold to dozens of countries and regions. In 1988, the watch output was 3.61 million.
Hong Kong area watch industry Hong Kong area is the world's largest watch and clock distribution center, watch exports account for the world's largest. Hong Kong's watch industry is one of the four pillar industries of Hong Kong's economy. Hong Kong's watch industry basically does not have the ability to process movements, and a large number of movements required are imported from Japan, Switzerland, the Soviet Union and other countries. However, the assembly industry and appearance manufacturing industries such as watch cases and dials are very developed. This makes Hong Kong watch industry very competitive in the international watch market. The production of clocks in Hong Kong is rare. There are two major organizations in the Hong Kong watch industry, namely The Federation of Hong Kong Watch Trades and Industries Ltd. and Hong Kong Watch Manufactu-rers Association Ltd.