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2. Pocket watch - Wikipedia

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   Pocket watches generally have an attached chain to allow them to be secured to a waistcoat, lapel, or belt loop, and to prevent them from being dropped. Watches were also mounted on a short leather strap or fob, when a long chain would have been cumbersome or likely to catch on things.

3. Waistcoat - Wikipedia

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   In a three piece suit, the cloth used matches the jacket and trousers. Waistcoats can also have lapels or revers depending on the style. Before wristwatches became popular, gentlemen kept their pocket watches in the front waistcoat pocket, with the watch on a watch chain threaded through a buttonhole. Sometimes an extra hole was made in line ...

4. Cigar cutter watch fob - Wikipedia

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   A cigar cutter watch fob is a decorative and utilitarian pendant that is attached to the opposite side of a chain as a pocket watch. It is used to cleanly cut the end of a cigar so it burns evenly. Pocket watches were the most common type of portable timepiece from their invention in the 1500s [ 2 ] [ 3 ] right up until the advent of the ...

5. Ramón Artagaveytia - Wikipedia

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   CLOTHING - Blue overcoat; blue suit; white dress waistcoat;black boots and purple socks; two vests marked "R.A."; pink drawers alsomarked "R.A." EFFECTS - Watch, chain and medals with name on; keys; comb;knife; eyeglass case; 27 pounds in gold; $20 gold piece; $64 in notes. Remains delivered to Uruguayan Consul at Halifax NAME RAMON ARTAGAVEYTIA

6. Suit - Wikipedia

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   A pocket watch on a chain, one end of which is inserted through a middle buttonhole, is often worn with a waistcoat; otherwise, since World War I, when they came to prominence of military necessity, men have worn wristwatches, which may be worn with any suit except the full evening dress . Although many examples of waistcoats worn with a double ...

7. Fusee (horology) - Wikipedia

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   It was bulky and tall, and made pocket watches unfashionably thick. [14] If the mainspring broke and had to be replaced, a frequent occurrence with early mainsprings, the fusee had to be readjusted to the new spring. If the fusee chain broke, the force of the mainspring sent the end whipping about the inside of the clock, causing damage.