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2. List of watch manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   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. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname.

3. Lum and Abner Abroad - Wikipedia

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   Lum and Abner Abroad, however, was a European production, with filming and accommodations based in Yugoslavia. According to co-star Chester Lauck, the Yugoslavian crew was so inexperienced and the conditions so primitive that director James V. Kern had to improvise technical shortcuts, like hanging a microphone on a pole to function as a ...

4. Dueber-Hampden Watch Company - Wikipedia

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   Three years later, the company's factory burnt to the ground. Finally, in 1877, the company reopened, doing business as the Hampden Watch Company. [2] The Dueber-Hampden Watch Factory in Canton, OH. In 1864 John C. Dueber founded the Dueber Watch Case Company in Cincinnati, Ohio to manufacture cases for fine watches. In 1886, Dueber, who had ...

5. Chester Lauck - Wikipedia

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   In addition to starring as storekeeper Lum (full name Columbus Edwards, with surname usually pronounced "Eddards"), Lauck also played several other recurring characters, including Cedric Weehunt, Grandpappy Spears, and Snake Hogan. He reprised his radio role, opposite Goff, in seven motion pictures between 1940 and 1956. Lauck adopted grey hair ...

6. History of watches - Wikipedia

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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.

7. Radium dial - Wikipedia

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   November 1917 ad for an Ingersoll "Radiolite" watch, one of the first watches mass marketed in the USA featuring a radium-illuminated dial. Radium was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 [1] and was soon combined with paint to make luminescent paint, which was applied to clocks, airplane instruments, and the like, to be able to read them in the dark.