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Thomas Mudge, inventor of the lever escapement. The lever escapement, invented by Thomas Mudge in 1754 [18] and improved by Josiah Emery in 1785, gradually came into use from about 1800 onwards, chiefly in Britain; it was also adopted by Abraham-Louis Breguet, but Swiss watchmakers (who by now were the chief suppliers of watches to most of Europe) mostly adhered to the cylinder until the 1860s.
This list is a duplicate of Category:Watch brands, which will likely be more up-to-date and complete. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname. Names in this list require an article about the watch brand or watchmaker
Langendorf Watch Company was a Swiss watchmaker known for its fine craftsmanship and great attention to detail. Around 1890, it was probably the largest producer of watches in the world. Around 1890, it was probably the largest producer of watches in the world.
Piquette came to be used in this fashion because it is derived from the word piquer, which means to prick or prickle. [6] These wines often had a slight fizz which would prickle the mouth. Piquette was produced in what was then Paris's outskirts, in Belleville and Montmartre , in an era when the simpler wines for Paris were sourced as close to ...
Picket now refers to a unit (either naval or army) maintaining a watch. This may mean a watch for the enemy, [4] or other types of watch e.g. fire picket. This can be likened to the art of sentry keeping. [5] A staggered picket consists of, for example, two soldiers where one soldier is relieved at a time. This is so that on any given picket ...
The Waltham Model 1857 is a watch made by the American Watch Company, later called the Waltham Watch Company in Waltham, Massachusetts. The Model 1857 was first made in 1857. Prior to that year, pocket watches were not made of standard parts and repairing and making the watches was difficult and expensive.
Universal Document Converter is a virtual printer and PDF creator for Microsoft Windows developed by fCoder Group. It can create PDF documents (as raster images or searchable text) and files in graphic formats JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, PCX, DCX and BMP. [3] It can create graphic or PDF files from any document that can be printed.