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    watch design and industrialists came out with the automatic watch. Whereas a mechanically-wound watch must be wound with the pendant or a levered setting...
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    virtually every mechanical watch, alarm clock and other portable timepiece has used the lever escapement. The advantages of the lever are, first, that it is...
    10 KB (1,429 words) - 16:07, 9 March 2024
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    watches now known as pin lever watches. It was popularized by German watchmaker Georges Frederic Roskopf in its "proletarian watch" from 1867. It was invented...
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    and Abraham-Louis Breguet. With this, a domestic watch could keep time to within a minute a day. Lever watches became common after about 1820, and this...
    30 KB (3,773 words) - 16:25, 12 May 2024
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    about 1900, however, the lever was used in almost every watch made. In this escapement the escape wheel pushed on a T-shaped 'lever', which was unlocked as...
    51 KB (5,910 words) - 00:45, 10 May 2024
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    A watch is a portable timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep a consistent movement despite the motions caused by...
    97 KB (10,365 words) - 13:38, 28 May 2024
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    Seiko (redirect from Seiko watch)
    Seiko introduced the Five Sport Speed Timer, the world's first Magic Lever watch with a vertical clutch and column wheel. It was a resounding success...
    58 KB (6,154 words) - 14:13, 22 May 2024
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    Pallet fork (redirect from Pallet lever)
    The pallet fork is a component of the lever escapement of a mechanical watch. The pallet fork and the lever form one component that sits between the escape...
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  • stars Kunal Khemu, Saurabh Shukla, Johny Lever, Rajpal Yadav, Ashwini Kalsekar, Chunky Pandey, Jamie Lever, Satish Kaushik, Farhad Samji, Zakir Hussain...
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  • Gurvinder Singh, Kaushik Ganguly, and Bhaskar Hazarika. It stars Johny Lever, Jitendra Kumar, Jisshu Sengupta, and Nimisha Sajayan in the lead roles...
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  • watchmaker and inventor, Geneva, lever escapement. Jacques-Frédéric Houriet (1743–1830), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, pocket watch, tourbillon. Jules Jürgensen...
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    An automatic watch, also known as a self-winding watch or simply an automatic, is a mechanical watch where the natural motion of the wearer provides energy...
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    escapements like the lever, and the high friction forces caused excessive wear and necessitated more frequent cleaning. The duplex watch escapement was invented...
    69 KB (8,702 words) - 19:14, 30 April 2024
  • the Super Smash Bros. series, Mr. Game & Watch grabs opponents with a similar pose to how Mario grabs levers, referencing Mario's Cement Factory. Snoopy...
    79 KB (8,405 words) - 01:25, 26 April 2024
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    auctioned 2005 in Paris Louis George lever watch, face Louis George lever watch, back Louis George pocket watch, made in Berlin about 1810, photo: Dr...
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    The Rolex Oysterquartz was a quartz watch made by Rolex. Unusually, its movement features a mechanical lever escapement driven by a simple permanent magnet...
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    1758–1774 Peter Litherland (1756–1805), watchmaker and inventor of the lever watch; born in Warrington Elizabeth Whitlock (1761 in Warrington – 1836), actress...
    102 KB (10,721 words) - 21:07, 28 May 2024
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    Omega SA (redirect from Omega watch)
    company formerly operated as La Generale Watch Co. until incorporating the name Omega in 1903, becoming Louis Brandt et Frère-Omega Watch & Co. In 1984, the company...
    56 KB (5,413 words) - 12:10, 9 May 2024
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    Oris (redirect from Oris watch)
    with pin-lever escapments, Oris took action against the Watch Statute, in order to enable the company to adopt the more accurate and durable lever escapement...
    31 KB (3,171 words) - 14:02, 13 April 2024
  • Norris without paying any royalties. The "Walker Texas Ranger Lever" was a prop lever which, when pulled, would cause a supposedly random clip from the...
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