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2. These Automatic Watches Are Low Maintenance, and Loaded ... - AOL

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   We tested 30 automatic watches to find the best ones for every wrist and budget. Powered by the energy of your own body, automatic watches provide a mechanical beauty in our digital world.

3. Abraham-Louis Perrelet - Wikipedia

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   Abraham-Louis Perrelet (9 January 1729 – 1826) was a Swiss horologist.He was born in Neuchâtel, then in the Principality of Neuchâtel.. His father, Daniel was a carpenter and a farmer and as soon as the young man was in a position to do some favours, he helped his parents on the farm.

4. Elgin National Watch Company - Wikipedia

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   The watch was an 18-size, full plate design. In 1869, the National Watch Company won "Best Watches, Illinois Manufacture" at the 17th Annual Illinois State Fair, for which it won a silver medal. [3] The company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.

5. Automatic watch - Wikipedia

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   Video of the rotor turning in an automatic wristwatch having a glass back, when the watch is moved by hand. An automatic watch, also known as a self-winding watch or simply an automatic, is a mechanical watch where the natural motion of the wearer provides energy to wind the mainspring, making manual winding unnecessary if worn enough. [1]

6. Omega Seamaster - Wikipedia

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   The Omega Seamaster is a line of automatic winding mechanical diving watches from Omega with a history that can be traced back to the original water-resistant dress-style watch released in 1948. The Seamaster collection is perhaps best known today for the Seamaster Diver Professional 300m model that has been worn in the James Bond movie ...

7. Automatic quartz - Wikipedia

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   Automatic quartz is a collective term describing watch movements that combine a self-winding rotor mechanism [1] (as used in automatic mechanical watches) to generate electricity with a piezoelectric quartz crystal as its timing element. Such movements aim to provide the advantages of quartz without the inconvenience and environmental impact of ...