1882

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• Heuer begins the series production of chronograph and receives the first patent for a stopwatch mechanism.

• Johann Adolf Hanhart opens a watch and jewelery business in Diessenhofen (Switzerland), which later becomes the watch manufacturer Hanhart.
• The Columbus Watch Co. in Columbus, Ohio is founded
• The J. P. Stevens Watch Co. in Atlanta, Georgia is founded