
Wristwatches · Wristwatch
Wristwatch by Triwa, Sweden, 2011
- Maker / attribution
- Triwa (Maker)
- Date
- 2011
- Historical period
- Contemporary Horology (2010 – Present)
- Country of origin
- Sweden
- Place
- Japan Stockholm Stockholm null
- Object type
- Wristwatch
- Materials / technique
- Plast, acetat Glas Metall
- Dimensions
- Diameter 4.2 cm Bredd 2.0 cm
- Holding institution
- Nordic Museum Foundation
- Accession / object no.
- NM.0332981A-B
- Credit line
- Nordic Museum Foundation
- Catalogue title (original)
- Armbandsur (Swedish)
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Record summary
Held and catalogued by Nordic Museum Foundation (object number NM.0332981A-B), this is a wristwatch by Triwa, made in Japan Stockholm Stockholm null, Sweden, dated 2011. The Atlas places it in the Contemporary Horology period (2010 – Present) of its Wristwatches collection. Materials and techniques recorded by the source: Plast, acetat Glas Metall. Recorded dimensions: Diameter 4.2 cm Bredd 2.0 cm. The record is illustrated with 1 photograph.
Assembled from the source record's structured fields. Dates and attributions are given as the source states them; where a field is missing the Atlas leaves it blank rather than estimating.
Catalogue description
Catalogue description from Nordic Museum Foundation
Historisk händelse, namn med anknytning till föremålet: Guldknappen Armbandsur med etikett (A-B) A) Armbandsklocka med lila läderarmband. Boett i grön acetat, grön urtavla med lila rundlar där den ena visar minuter (60, 20 och 40 markerat) och den andra timmar (24, 8, 16 markerat). Företagets namn (TRIWA) och modellens namn (NEVIL) skrivet på urtavlan. Varje 5 minuter markerad med ett silverfärgat streck. Utmed kanten 60, 05, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, grönt på vit bakgrund. Minut- och timvisare i metall med vit rand, sekundvisare orange. Glaset skyddas med påklistrad plast. På sidan tre knoppar att ställa in tid med, den mittersta räfflad. Läderarmbandet en lång remsa, dubbelvikt över spännet, 2 silverfärgade byglar med nitar emellan. Vid boett dras ena delan genom medan andra ligger under, övre delan träs genom en bygel vid undre ändens slut. Övre delen avslutas med 8 hål på rad. B) Vid klockan är en etikett fäst som beskriver hur lädret till klockarnbandet har tillverkats. Text: Tärnsjö, Sweden, est 1873 m.m. Klockan köpes i svart plastetui(332.983) i vit papplåda (332.982). Hör ihop med 332.982 och 332.983 /Magdalena Fick 2011-11-02 Klockmodellen heter Nevil Peacock Purple och lanserades under våren 2011 Triwa startade 2007 av Ludvig Scheja, Tobias Ericsson, Didrik och Harald Wachtmeister. Företaget fick namnet Triwa som en akronym som står för "transforming the industri of watches". Företaget lägger tonvikt på klockan som accessoar: design och attityd ska passa bäraren. Klockorna är färgstarka och säljs internationellt. 2011 fick de Guldknappen accessoar pris. Motivering: I en värld fylld av gamla normer och tekniksnobberi slog sig årets accessoarvinnare in med kraft. De har ingenting emot att bli kopierade, tvärtom ser de det som en komplimang, då företaget ständigt är på väg mot nya utmaningar. De färgstarka klockorna har synts överallt och framgångarna har varit omedelbara. TRIWA är ett uttryck i tiden, därför är de 2011 års värdiga accessoarvinnare. (Intervjumaterial, Nordiska museet: D 458) /Magdalena Fick 2011-12-02
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Historical context
Contemporary Horology (2010 – Present)
Silicon components, connected watches, optical-lattice research clocks and a thriving independent scene.
Smartwatches became the world's best-selling watches, while mechanical watchmaking focuses on craft, innovation (silicon components, new escapements) and independent makers.
Read the period in the timelineMore wristwatches from this periodEarlier: Mechanical Renaissance
Atlas type guide
Wristwatches
Bracelet watches were worn by women from the early nineteenth century — Breguet made one for Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples, in 1810–12 — but the wristwatch only became a man's instrument with military use and aviation in the early twentieth century. Between the World Wars it overtook the pocket watch; the 1920s and 1930s brought rectangular Art Deco cases, water-resistant cases and the first automatic winding systems.
After 1945 the wristwatch became a carrier of identity — dress watches, sports and dive watches, chronographs, calendars — produced by Swiss, American, Japanese, German, Soviet and Chinese industries. The quartz revolution after 1969 and the mechanical renaissance since the 1990s, including the rise of independent watchmakers, complete the story.
What to look for
- The reference number (between the lugs or inside the case back) and serial number, the starting point for dating.
- The calibre: its maker and number are often stamped under the dial or on the bridge.
- Originality of dial, hands and crown — refinished ('redial') dials are common.
- Case material marks: 18K/750, 14K/585, stainless steel, gold-filled, plated.
Dating clues
- Wire-lug cases: before c. 1925.
- Water-resistant screw-down cases: from 1926.
- Quartz movements: from 1969; sapphire crystals widespread after c. 1980.
General guidance written by the Atlas editors about this kind of object. It is not a statement about this particular piece; for that, rely on the source record above and on physical examination.
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