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• This served adequately until the introduction of rail travel in Britain, which made it possible to travel fast enough over long distances to require continuous re-setting of timepieces as a train progressed in its daily run through several towns.
• If the timepieces of an engineer and a switch operator differed by even a minute or two, trains could be on the same track at the same time and collide.
• The Sonny Crockett character typically wore thousand-dollar Versace and Armani suits over pastel cotton T-shirts, drove a Ferrari, wore expensive timepieces by Rolex and Ebel, and lived on an Endeavour yacht.
• As with their mechanical counterparts, the cuckoo bird emerges from its enclosure and moves up and down, but often on the quartz timepieces it also flaps its wings and open its beak while it sings.
• The department quickly outgrew its space in the plant, so Benedict & Burnham incorporated Waterbury Clock's sister company Waterbury Watch Company in 1880 with a capital of $400,000 to manufacture and sell inexpensive watches and other timepieces.
• It also includes one of the earliest theoretical descriptions of a marine chronometer, accompanied by a discussion of the use of vacuum seals to reduce inaccuracies in the operation of timepieces.
• Catgut was also used in early pocket timepieces from their invention up until the use of the Fusee chain.
• These include details of weapons, wounds, letters, signs, tombstones, machinery, games of chance, timepieces, money, and even intimate caresses.
• As automatic movements began to come back into demand, Ebel (and later Rolex) sourced the El Primero movement for their own chronograph timepieces, which breathed new life into the struggling brand.
• However, the metal pins used instead of pallets have much higher friction than jewelled pallets, and combined with the looser manufacturing tolerances this made pin pallet timepieces less accurate.
• Up to then, the production of marine chronometer timepieces used by mariners for determining longitude and fix their position by celestial navigation at sea, was a highly skilled mainly craft-based and hence expensive horology niche, and marine chronometers used by United States ships were imported or used foreign key components.
• The company produces around 75,000 timepieces and 75,000 jewelleries each year, and is an active member of the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH.
• The addition of the balance spring to the balance wheel around 1657 by Robert Hooke and Christiaan Huygens greatly increased the accuracy of portable timepieces, transforming early pocketwatches from expensive novelties to useful timekeepers.
• Sieveking, as remembered by Rudge, was a collector of timepieces with several dozen clocks at his apartment, chiming to different rhythms.
• In the 1980s, few watchmakers were capable of creating such complicated timepieces, among them Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin.
• George Daniels, CBE, FBHI, FSA, AHCI (19 August 1926 – 21 October 2011) was an English horologist who was considered by some to be one of the best in the world in the field of luxury mechanical watches and timepieces during his lifetime.
• This school is named after the Glashütte-based watchmaker, Alfred Helwig, who invented the flying tourbillon in 1921, a major horological innovation that can be seen on extremely high-end timepieces.
• On 6 September 1883 the house effects were sold onsite and listed in the Essex Herald:

  Brass and iron French, folding and crib bedsteads, spring, hair and wool mattresses, feather bolsters and pillows, Witney blankets, Spanish mahogany bedroom suite, japanned ditto, marble top washstands, chests of drawers in birch and ash, Brussels and Tapestry carpets, fenders and fire implements, suite of lace and cretonne window curtains, cornice poles, black and gold frame drawing-room suite in tapestry, ditto centre table, ditto wall brackets, walnut centre table, ebonised and gilt cabinet and walnut davenport, valuable empire clock, timepieces, dial, regulator clock, weather glass, barometer, 20 clever oil paintings by known artists, beautiful statuary marble mantel shelf with tiled stove and hearth complete, coal purdonians, carved mahogany dining-room suite in morocco, sets of chairs, easy chairs and couches, set of mahogany dining tables, loo, coffee, and fancy ditto, hand sewing machine, ornaments, china, glass, fittings of hall and stairs, kitchen and dairy utensils, stone china dinner service, croquet set, lawn tennis ditto, both complete.

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  Karl's diary: Congo confusion, vegetable timepieces, subterranean schoolfriends, porcine-pated ladies, beehive boozers.
• In 1834, following his invention of a machine to cut watch pinions from steel, Antoine LeCoultre (1803-1881) founded a small watchmaking workshop in Le Sentier, where he honed his horological skills to create high-quality timepieces.

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