Peacock Watch Group empowers Polaris Watch Group to boost the development of China’s watch industry

On December 23rd, Peacock Watch Group and Yantai Guofeng Group officially signed the "Property Transfer Agreement" of Polaris Watch Group, marking that Peacock Watch Group and Guofeng Group will work together to quickly and deeply carry out comprehensive cooperation and promote the development of China’s watch industry.

Focusing on Chinese core, boosting the comprehensive upgrade of the watch industry

Peacock Watch Group has built a Chinese tourbillon watch manufacturing base in Dandong, China, with 65 years of ingenuity and ingenuity. It has mastered the design and manufacturing capabilities of mechanical movements and ultra-complex movements that represent the high-precision technical level of international watch manufacturing. Peacock "China Movement" products cover seven series such as self-designed and developed thin automatic mechanical movements and tourbillon movements, and more than 300 colors of 26 basic varieties. It has become a leading enterprise in the domestic mechanical watch movement manufacturing industry.

Peacock Watch Group Modern Factory

Polaris Watch Group was founded in 1915 and has a history of 108 years. It has become the largest mechanical clock production base in China and the most complete variety in the world. It has successively won the honors of "China’s first ten well-known trademarks", "China famous brand products", and "China time-honored brands". It has become an enterprise in the Chinese watch industry that has both movement and clock top technology, and is recognized as the Chinese "clock king" in the industry.

Polaris Watch Research Institute Company and Mechanical Clock Assembly Line

The Peacock brand and the Polaris brand are both representative Chinese national brands in the Chinese watch industry. They both focus on the independent research and development and manufacturing of China’s "core" in the inheritance of ingenuity. In order to complete the great dream of the revival of national watch brands and conform to the consumption trend of the revival of traditional culture and national tide, through integration, we will further increase resource integration, accelerate the implementation of brand strategic planning, and use "core" to promote the comprehensive upgrading of the national watch industry.

"Double drive linkage", counterattack to build China’s "watch kingdom"

In 2021, Peacock Watch Group invested in the construction of a "one million high-end mechanical watch intelligent R & D and manufacturing base" in Dandong, Liaoning. After completion, the construction area of the watch park will exceed 100,000 square meters, which will comprehensively improve the flexible production, information management and intelligent manufacturing management level of the Dandong watch industry base, and strive to create a new pattern of the watch industry with outstanding characteristics.

Peacock Watch Industry Millions of High-end Mechanical Watches Intelligent R & D and Manufacturing Base Renderings

In the future, Peacock Watch Group will empower Polaris Watch Group, with the most cutting-edge technology, equipment and perfect business philosophy, and do its best to lead Polaris Watch Group to build a modern garden factory, help it in brand technology, output value and economic benefits can be further leapt and improved, so as to make it a business card of Shandong! In the birthplace of China’s watch industry, the new glory of China’s century-old brand of watches and clocks!

With the continuous upgrading of the two industrial bases in Dandong and Yantai, it will also open up the opportunity for China’s watch manufacturing industry to become a powerhouse. Peacock Watch Group will lead Polaris Watch Group to fight the "clock & watch" linkage battle, complement each other’s advantages, combine attacks, and develop with dual drivers. Together, we will brew a new round of national core and national tide, and build China’s "watch kingdom" against the attack.

Ingenious and intelligent digitization 

Dialogue with world clocks with high-end manufacturing technology

In recent years, our country’s watch manufacturing industry has gradually increased investment, strengthened research and development, and actively expanded the transformation and upgrading of "intelligent +" in the manufacturing industry. The status of China’s watch industry is also entering the core circle from the peripheral circle of the world watch industry, and gradually becoming the protagonist from the supporting role.

Peacock Watch Group and Polaris Watch Group, as two typical traditional manufacturing enterprises with a long history, have made full preparations for "overtaking the curve" in the "ingenious manufacturing digital industrial chain". Peacock Watch Industry, with its high-end core technology with independent intellectual property rights, adheres to the core concept of "excellence, precision manufacturing" and creates a new chapter of intelligent manufacturing. Polaris Watch Group has started system reform in the three business segments of "watches, clocks, and time synchronization systems" to stimulate the vitality of enterprises. At the same time, various high-tech precision timing products such as "large area time system, ship mother clock, and marine chronograph" have covered most of the technical clock markets in our country.

Peacock CLASSIC series Return of the King double tourbillon watch 

Polaris clock

The two watch groups have formed a comprehensive advantage in new technologies, new materials, new processes and new equipment. In the future, Peacock Watch Group will further increase its high-end innovation and integrated innovation efforts, highlight its advantages, move from manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing, use digitalization to continuously expand into new time control application fields, and use high-end R & D and manufacturing technology to dialogue with world watches and clocks, and finally create a digital supply chain that stands tall on the world watch stage.

China core empowers China star "clock & watch" will become a legend in the future 

The 108 commemorative watches jointly launched by Peacock Watch Group and Polaris Watch Group made a brilliant appearance. Several watches paid tribute to Polaris Watch Group from different angles "from the birth of Polaris in 1915 to the completion of the mixed reform in 2022". It is worth mentioning that all the commemorative watches use different characteristic movements designed and developed by Peacock Watch Group. When the Chinese "core" empowers the Chinese "star", the bright starlight is inspired to shine more intensely, and the Polaris watch heralds more possibilities in the Chinese watch market in the future with a new attitude. In the future, Peacock Watch Group and Polaris Watch Group can be expected to create a "clock & watch" double legend!

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From dangerous goods to safe endurance, they have created a rechargeable world.

  When going out, only one thing is allowed, and many people will choose mobile phones; To buy your first car, you may want to try a new energy electric car & HELIP; …

  These common choices in our daily life all exist because of the same thing — — Lithium battery.

  At 17: 45 Beijing time yesterday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Professor John B Goodenough, Professor Stanley Whittingham and Professor Yoshino in recognition of their contributions to the development of lithium batteries.

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry once again makes people feel that they have flown from the top of the academic pyramid to ordinary people. The distance is so close, even within reach.

  With the lightest metal in the world

  Win the heaviest prize in the world

  When the power of your mobile phone is only 10%, I believe that many people’s anxiety and tension have reached the peak. At this time, if you suddenly find a charging treasure, it seems that life has been saved at that moment.

  Modern people can’t imagine life without the assistance of lithium batteries.

  Therefore, when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three scientists from the United States, Britain and Japan who made outstanding contributions to the development of lithium batteries, people at the scene were extremely interested in it.

  Lithium, the least dense and lightest metal in the world.

  Although it is light and small, it has a big temper — — It is the most active metal among known elements (including radioactive elements).

  Therefore, it has become a very good material for developing batteries, but it has both advantages and disadvantages. When lithium metal is used as the electrode, there are huge hidden dangers — — This kind of battery is easy to catch fire or even explode.

  Therefore, if you want to use lithium in the battery, you must control it, and this year’s Nobel Prize winner in chemistry’s achievement actually lies in this.

  In other words, if these three scientists didn’t make Li obedient, we would be carrying an explosive bag every day and risking being ignited at any time by calling the Internet.

  So, how did they tame lithium?

  Originally, Goodenough and others found that manganese spinel is an excellent cathode material with low price, stability and excellent electrical and lithium conductivity. Its decomposition temperature is high, and its oxidation is much lower than that of lithium metal. Even if there is short circuit and overcharge, the danger of combustion and explosion can be avoided.

  Now, let’s imagine lithium cobaltate, and imagine it as a sandwich made of cobalt and oxygen. The lithium atom is the ham slice in the middle, which can be easily pulled out, so that the lithium atom can move quickly in the lithium cobaltate crystal — — Therefore, lithium cobaltate can replace metallic lithium as a lithium ion provider in the battery.

  At the same time, this oxide can also increase the voltage of the battery and the amount of electricity stored in the battery. More importantly, it is like putting a spell on lithium, making it docile and controllable.

  Liberal arts cross science and physics cross chemistry.

  Hard core life of 97-year-old father

  After briefly talking about the principle of lithium batteries, let’s talk about these three award-winning legends.

  At the age of 97, Goodenough is the oldest Nobel Prize winner so far.

  The old man’s life is quite hard — — After Goodenough was admitted to Yale University, he actually chose classical literature and philosophy as his first major. In order to get credit, he took two chemistry courses. When he graduated, his degree turned out to be a bachelor of mathematics. Because a math professor saw his talent, he was persuaded from a liberal arts student to a science student studying mathematics.

  Then, World War II broke out, and Goodenough joined the US Air Force. After retiring, at the age of 30, he went to the University of Chicago to study physics, and studied solid-state physics. After graduation, he went to Lincoln Laboratory of MIT and made contributions to the development of random access memory. This technology is the later computer memory.

  This wave of cross-border is not over yet — — In Lincoln Lab, Goodenough studied sodium-sulfur batteries. But it was not until 1976, at the age of 54, that he entered the Department of Chemistry of Oxford University in England, and his research field shifted to batteries, and he studied lithium cobaltate.

  That is, when Goodenough went to Oxford University, England, Whitingham, the founder of rechargeable lithium-ion battery, and his team had made the world’s first rechargeable lithium-ion battery — — They creatively used titanium sulfide as the cathode material and lithium metal as the cathode material. When charging, lithium ions move from the positive electrode to the negative electrode, and the discharge returns to the positive electrode, and so on.

  In 1977, the two high-energy scientists also co-published a book in the field of solid-state energy chemistry.

  On the other side of the globe, some Japanese companies, especially Sony, had made great progress in the commercialization of lithium rechargeable batteries and held a large number of patents.

  Akira Yoshino, after graduating from the Petrochemical Department of the Faculty of Engineering of Kyoto University with a master’s degree in engineering, directly entered Asahi Kasei Industrial Co., Ltd. In 1981, the research and development of lithium batteries began.

  He plays the role of matchmaker — — After establishing the basic framework of lithium-ion batteries, Yoshino made use of graphite, which has been invented by Sony Corporation of Japan and is used as the negative electrode of lithium batteries, with stable structure and low price, to draw a red line for lithium cobaltate as the positive electrode.

  In 1983, Yoshino made the world’s first rechargeable lithium-ion battery prototype by using lithium cobaltate cathode and polyacetylene anode. In 1985, many technical problems were overcome, metal lithium was completely eliminated, and the basic concept of rechargeable lithium-containing alkaline lithium-ion battery was established, and modern lithium-ion battery was born. In 1991, Sony released the first commercial lithium-ion battery in human history.

  "I’m only in my 90 s and I still have time."

  Three scientists are still working at an advanced age.

  Although the principle of the battery looks simple, the design and manufacturing process of the battery is very complicated. Until now, some alkaline batteries invented in the 19th century are still in use. It can be seen how difficult it is to invent and improve a new battery.

  This award is well deserved.

  In the "Nobel Prize" field, Goodenough is somewhat known as "Haruki Murakami" in the chemical field — — The voice is very high, "running with you" for many years.

  It is understood that 97-year-old Goodenough is still engaged in energy research.

  "I want to solve this problem before I die. I am only in my 90 s and I still have time." Goodenough hopes to develop solid-state batteries with high energy density and high safety, so that electric vehicles can replace high-capacity batteries of gasoline vehicles. He likes his metaphor of "crawling tortoise". "This kind of crawling throughout your life may bring benefits, especially if you cross different fields and collect all kinds of clues all the way. You have to have a lot of experience to integrate different ideas. "

  Whitingham, 78, is still thinking and working. He has also co-written books to observe and analyze the history, evolution and future state of energy storage, which describes the future development of lithium batteries.

  Just after being told that he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 71-year-old Akira Yoshino replied in an interview with the media: "Curiosity" is the biggest driving force. Prior to this, Akira Yoshino said that battery technology is a complex and difficult interdisciplinary field, and its development needs many experts. Lithium-ion batteries are the result of collective wisdom.