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  • Thumbnail for Chronograph
    A chronograph is a specific type of watch that is used as a stopwatch combined with a display watch. A basic chronograph has an independent sweep second...
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    A flyback chronograph is a watch complication, in which the user can use a reset function without the need to first stop the chronograph, by a single press...
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    The Double chronograph, also known as a split-seconds chronograph, is a watch that includes two distinct stopwatch mechanisms in order to measure two separate...
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  • Thumbnail for Gun chronograph
    A ballistic chronograph or gun chronograph is a measuring instrument used to measure the velocity of a projectile in flight, typically fired from a gun...
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  • The Aberdeen chronograph was the first portable gun chronograph, an instrument for measuring the muzzle velocity and striking power of a projectile fired...
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    A chronographer was a graphical representation of historical information devised by American educator Emma Willard in the mid-19th century. The chronographers...
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    The Chronograph, Chronography, or Calendar of 354 is a compilation of chronological and calendrical texts produced in 354 AD for a wealthy Roman Christian...
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  • Demetrius the Chronographer (or Demetrius the Chronicler; Greek: Δημήτριος) was a Jewish chronicler (historian) of the late 3rd century BCE, who lived...
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  • Thumbnail for Omega 28.9 chronograph
    The Omega 28.9 Chronograph was Omega's first small wrist chronograph. Introduced in 1932 as the Lemania caliber CH13, production continued until 1943...
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    patented his first chronograph in 1882 and in 1887 patented an "oscillating pinion" still used by major watchmakers of mechanical chronographs. In 1911, Heuer...
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  • Thumbnail for Omega Speedmaster
    chronograph wristwatches produced by Omega SA. While chronographs have existed since the late 1800s, Omega first introduced this line of chronographs...
    37 KB (3,804 words) - 21:54, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louis Moinet
    Louis Moinet (1768–1853), inventor of the chronograph, was born into a prosperous family of farmers in Bourges, France, was a French horologist, sculptor...
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  • Theophanes the Confessor (Greek: Θεοφάνης Ὁμολογητής; c. 758/760 – 12 March 817/818) was a member of the Byzantine aristocracy who became a monk and chronicler...
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    who were successful watch makers and registered several patents for chronographs, such as the mono rattrapante: a device that would pause the second hand...
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    strike, minute repeater, alarm, perpetual calendar, deadbeat seconds, chronograph with jumping seconds, and split-seconds hand In 1921, created the world's...
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  • official reference books on vintage Patek Philippe pocket watches and chronographs. In 1993, Philippe Stern, the son of Henri Stern, became the president...
    62 KB (5,664 words) - 21:54, 2 June 2024
  • d'horlogerie. Universal Genève is known for creating the first-ever chronograph in 1917. Started and briefly based in Le Locle, co-founder Ulysse Perret...
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  • Thumbnail for Flood myth
    the flood motif did not show up in the Ur III copy and that earliest chronographical sources related to the flood show up in the Old Babylonian Period....
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  • Thumbnail for List of most expensive watches sold at auction
    - Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Chronograph". RR Auction. Retrieved 2020-12-12. Naas, Roberta (2015-10-25). "Bulova Chronograph Worn by Astronaut Dave Scott...
    105 KB (5,860 words) - 21:54, 2 June 2024
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    world to establish the dates and times of historical events. Subsequent chronographers, such as George Syncellus (died circa 811), analyzed and elaborated...
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