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2. Watch - Wikipedia

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   A pocket watchis designed for a person to carry in a pocket, often attached to a chain. Watches appeared in the 16th century. During most of its history, the watch was a mechanical device, driven by clockwork, powered by winding a mainspring, and keeping time with an oscillating balance wheel.

3. History of watches - Wikipedia

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   The 24-hour dial has Roman numerals on the outer band and Hindu–Arabic numerals on the inner one. [1] The history of watches began in 16th-century Europe, where watches evolved from portable spring-driven clocks, which first appeared in the 15th century. The watch was developed by inventors and engineers from the 16th century to the mid-20th ...

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. Rolex - Wikipedia

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   Rolex watch in original packaging. Rolex SA (/ ˈ r oʊ l ɛ k s /) is a Swiss watch brand and manufacturer based in Geneva, Switzerland. [3] Founded in 1905 as Wilsdorf and Davis by German businessman Hans Wilsdorf and his brother-in-law Alfred Davis in London, the company registered Rolex as the brand name of its watches in 1908 and became Rolex Watch Co. Ltd. in 1915.

6. List of watch manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Backes & Strauss; Bausele; Ball Watch Company; Webb C. Ball; Balmain; Barrington Griffiths Watch Company; Baume et Mercier; Bedat & Co; Beijing Watch Factory

7. Zenith (watchmaker) - Wikipedia

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   Zenith SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker. The company was started in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel [1] and is one of the oldest continuously operating watchmakers. Favre-Jacot invented the concept of "in house movements", believing that only through control of the entire watchmaking process could the highest ...