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2. Baume et Mercier - Wikipedia

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   Baume & Mercier was founded as "Frères Baume" in 1830 by brothers Louis-Victor and Célestin Baume, who opened the watch dealership in Les Bois, a village in the Swiss Jura. The Swiss watch manufacturer established a branch in London in 1851 under the name "Baume Brothers", which led to expansion throughout the British Empire. By the late 19th ...

3. Burberry - Wikipedia

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   Burberry Group plc is a British luxury fashion house established in 1856 by Thomas Burberry and headquartered in London, England. [4] It designs and distributes ready to wear , including trench coats , leather accessories, and footwear.

4. Cartier (jeweler) - Wikipedia

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   The "Santos" watch was Cartier's first men's wristwatch. In 1907, Cartier signed a contract with Edmond Jaeger, who agreed to exclusively supply the movements for Cartier watches. [ 25 ] Among the Cartier team was Charles Jacqueau, who joined Louis Cartier in 1909 for the rest of his life, and Jeanne Toussaint , who was Director of Fine ...

5. Watch - Wikipedia

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   A chronograph is a watch with an added duration timer, often a stopwatch complication (as explained above), while a chronometer watch is a timepiece that has met an industry-standard test for performance under pre-defined conditions: a chronometer is a high quality mechanical or a thermo-compensated movement that has been tested and certified ...

6. Timex Group USA - Wikipedia

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   In 1994, Timex acquired the Nautica Watches license and introduced Timex Data Link. The Data Link PDA-type watch could receive contact and scheduling information from a sequence in a computer monitor's light using software developed with Microsoft. [34] They introduced the Timex Expedition brand in 1997, designed for rugged outdoor sports.

7. Angela Ahrendts - Wikipedia

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   She was the CEO of Burberry from 2006 to 2014. [3] She left Burberry to join Apple in 2014. [4] She was ranked 25th in Forbes' 2015 list of the most powerful women in the world, [5] 9th most powerful woman in the U.K. in the BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour 100 Power List, [6] and 29th in Fortune ' s 2014 list of the world's most powerful women in ...

8. Complication (horology) - Wikipedia

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   The watch was reportedly the culmination of a watch arms race between Graves and James Ward Packard. The Super-complication took three years to design and five to build, and sports a chart of the nighttime sky at Graves' home in New York. It remains the most complicated watch (920 parts) [17] built without the assistance of computers. [18]

9. Chronometer watch - Wikipedia

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   Inside a chronometer mechanism (c. 1904)A chronometer (Ancient Greek: χρονόμετρον, khronómetron, "time measurer") is an extraordinarily accurate mechanical timepiece, with an original focus on the needs of maritime navigation.