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  2. Pocket watch - Wikipedia

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    Open-face watches. An open-face pocket watch made by the Swiss watchmaker Omega, c. 1970. An open-faced, or Lépine, [ 9] watch, is one in which the case lacks a metal cover to protect the crystal. It is typical for an open-faced watch to have the pendant located at 12:00 and the sub-second dial located at 6:00.

  3. Waltham Model 1857 - Wikipedia

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    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. The American Watch Company created ...

  4. Waltham Watch Company - Wikipedia

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    The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., was a company that produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time delay fuses, and other precision instruments in the United States of America between 1850 and 1957. The company's historic 19th-century manufacturing ...

  5. 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 ...

  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. 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 ...

  8. 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.

  9. Lancashire Watch Company - Wikipedia

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    Lancashire Watch Company. Lancashire Watch Company pocket watch movement. The Lancashire Watch Company of Prescot was founded in 1889 by Thomas P. Hewitt as a rival to the large American and Swiss watch companies. It failed in 1910.

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