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2. Watchmaker - Wikipedia

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   Watchmaker. A watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches. Since a majority of watches are now factory-made, most modern watchmakers only repair watches. However, originally they were master craftsmen who built watches, including all their parts, by hand. [ 1][ 2] Modern watchmakers, when required to repair older watches, for which ...

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. Waltham Model 1857 - Wikipedia

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   Waltham Model 1857. The Waltham Model 1857 is a watch made by the American Watch Company, later called the Waltham Watch Company in Waltham, Massachusetts . The Model 1857 was first made in 1857. Prior to that year, pocket watches were not made of standard parts and repairing and making the watches was difficult and expensive.

5. Hamilton Watch Company - Wikipedia

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   The Hamilton Watch Company was housed on a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) complex in Lancaster. Hamilton took possession of Aurora Watch Company's machinery shortly after incorporation. [citation needed] The first watch made under the Hamilton name was an 18-size 17-jewel pocket watch in 1893.

6. List of watchmakers - Wikipedia

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   Leopold Hoys (1713–1797), German clockmaker, Bamberg, John Whitehurst (1713–1788), English clockmaker, Derby. Jean Romilly (1714–1796), Swiss watchmaker, Paris, pocket watch. Jean François Poncet (1714–1804), Swiss watchmaker of French origin, clockmaker of the court in Dresden and director of the Grünes Gewölbe.

7. Ronson (company) - Wikipedia

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   Ronson Consumer Products Corporation was formerly based in Somerset, New Jersey. It was a producer of lighters and lighter accessories. Zippo Manufacturing Company currently owns the related brands in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and continues to produce Ronson lighters and Ronsonol fuel. Ronson International Limited, located in ...