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2. Steve McQueen - Wikipedia

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   Steve McQueen. Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) [ 4] was an American actor and racing driver. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw for his films of the 1960s and 1970s. He was nicknamed the " King of Cool " and used the alias Harvey ...

3. Pocket watch - Wikipedia

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   Pocket watch. Savonette with cathedral hands and luminescent dial made by Thos. Russell & Son (probably in the 1920’s) A golden pocket watch with hunter-case and watch chain. Pocket watches evolved from clock-watches, supposedly called Nuremberg eggs, worn on chains around the neck. Example by Peter Henlein, 1510, Germanisches Nationalmuseum ...

4. Gallet & Company - Wikipedia

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   Gallet & Company. Gallet (ˈgæl.eɪ) is a historic Swiss manufacturer of high-end timepieces for professional, military, sports, racing, and aviation use. Gallet is the world's oldest clock making house with history dating back to Humbertus Gallet, a clock maker who became a citizen of Geneva in 1466. It is one of the oldest continuously ...

5. Westclox - Wikipedia

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   Watches. The Westclox company was a major manufacturer of dollar watches. It started production of an inexpensive, back-winding pocket watch in 1899, which was intended to be affordable to any working person. The company continued to produce cheap pocket watches into the 1990s.

6. Dueber-Hampden Watch Company - Wikipedia

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   The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company was an American watch manufacturing company. [ 1] In 1888 the Dueber Watch Case Company operating in Cincinnati from 1864 bought the Hampden Watch Company of New York, in operation since 1877. Dueber moved them both to Canton, Ohio, where Hampden used the Dueber cases until the companies merged in 1923.

7. Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication - Wikipedia

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   The Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication (no. 198.385) is one of the most complicated mechanical pocket watches ever created. The 18-karat gold watch has 24 complications and was assembled by Patek Philippe. [ 1][ 2] It was named after banker Henry Graves Jr. who supposedly commissioned it out of his desire to outdo the Grande ...