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  2. Torsion pendulum clock - Wikipedia

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    A torsion pendulum clock, more commonly known as an anniversary clock or 400-day clock, is a mechanical clock which keeps time with a mechanism called a torsion pendulum. This is a weighted disk or wheel, often a decorative wheel with three or four chrome balls on ornate spokes, suspended by a thin wire or ribbon called a torsion spring (also ...

  3. List of clock manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Hermle Clocks (1922–present) Junghans, Schramberg (1861–present) Kieninger Clock Company, initially in Mönchweiler, 1921 new factory in Aldingen (1912–present) Kieninger & Obergfell Uhrenfabrik (KUNDO trademark), Sankt Georgen (1918 - recent) Kienzle Uhren, Schwenningen - Schlenker and Keinzle until c1897 (1883-1996) Franz Ketterer

  4. Kundo (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Kundo may refer to: A German manufacturer of torsion pendulum clocks in the early 20th century; Kundo: Age of the Rampant, a 2014 South Korean film; Kundō Koyama, a Japanese writer; Kundo, a deity in the fictional World of Greyhawk

  5. Metamec - Wikipedia

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    The factory increased in size during the 1960s and 70s, and employed approx 750 people, producing 350 models of clock, and producing 25,000 clocks per week. They became a manufacturer of the now iconic large 'Sunburst' chrome, teak and brass clocks. Metamec was the largest clock manufacturer in the UK at the time.

  6. Pendulum clock - Wikipedia

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    A torsion pendulum clock requiring only annual winding is sometimes called a "400-Day clock" or "anniversary clock", sometimes given as a wedding gift. Torsion pendulums are also used in "perpetual" clocks which do not need winding, as their mainspring is kept wound by changes in atmospheric temperature and pressure with a bellows arrangement.

  7. 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.

  8. 1962 - Wikipedia

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    1962 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1962nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 962nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1960s decade.

  9. Ridgeway Clocks - Wikipedia

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    The clock-making work moved to Zeeland in the spring of 2005. The Ridgeway plant's production focus became curio cabinets and wine cabinets, product lines more vulnerable to import competition than grandfather and mantel clocks. In December 2007, Howard Miller Clock Co. closed its subsidiary Ridgeway Furniture, resulting in about 70 job losses. [1]