Worlds Thinnest Watch

[JohnF]

Hi -

Surprised no one has mentioned the Swatch Skins: 3.95mm thin. With case.

And the Titan Edge is an interesting movement: 1.15mm in height. There is also a Titan Slim, 1.75mm in height. Not easy to find pix of the movement though, but they are both quartz movements.

What is especially interesting is that these are coming out of the Tata group in India, out of their Precision Engineering Division (PED), which is where Tata aims to take India into the 21st century.

But still using watch designs of the 1970s, it seems...

JohnF

[pacifichrono]

My 1970s Soviet-era Sekonda...about 4mm including case but excluding crystal:

[pacifichrono]

You're lucky to have the original crystal. Mine (a 1961 Vympel-branded version) needed a replacement glass and the only available was too tall. A flat watch needs the right glass.

For all those on this forum not aquainted with Russian watches, to give an idea of how thin the calibre 2209 was; when the Minsk watch factory decided to convert to a quartz movement in this thin case in 1988/89, they had to deepen the caseback to accomodate the battery.

Here's the movement and case back:

[tomshep]

And one sold on the bay today for a fiver! The 2209 is a fine (indeed, award winning) movement that keeps good time and lasts well. Those others are lovely and super slim but I don't expect them to be affordable, so if you like slimlines and have resources to match, then the old Sekondas are worth a look.

[vardjuin]

this is the thinnest most affordable watch that you could buy
nice watch indeed

[aditya]

Beutiful watch Jim

Here's what I came accross the other day.....

http://www.horology.ru/dir/golay.htm

a cylinder escapement movement made c.1850 1mm thick !!!

Kind regards

Aditya

[Kingmatic]

Beautiful all your thin watches !!

I had a deja vu, since my father used to wear a Miramar in the 60´s (steel , and not so thin) . Good memories

[Gansan]

Here is the thinnest watch in the Universe!
http://www.titanworld.com/titan/Stor...ategoryid=Edge

[pacifichrono]

Here is the thinnest watch in the Universe!
http://www.titanworld.com/titan/Stor...ategoryid=Edge

I dunno...at 3.6mm I doubt it's the slimmest ever (when my lowly Russian is 4mm), plus it's not even a mechanical movement (quartz). JMHO.

[Eeeb]

I dunno...at 3.6mm I doubt it's the slimmest ever (when my lowly Russian is 4mm), plus it's not even a mechanical movement (quartz). JMHO.

Yes, good point. One thing I did not mention earlier in the thread, the Longines 990 is not a winder... it is a very very thin automatic. As Dr Ranfft says "When introduced in 1977, the 990 with all features was the thinnest automatic movement with date and sweep second; even in 2003 it is only underscored by movements without date and/or sweep second."