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2. Smartwatch - Wikipedia

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   The information included weather, news, stock prices, and sports scores, and was transmitted through FM waves. [33] It was accessible through a yearly subscription that cost between $39 and $59. [34] The Microsoft SPOT Watch had a monochrome 90×126 pixel screen. [36] Fossil, Suunto, and Tissot also sold smartwatches using SPOT technology.

3. Tissot - Wikipedia

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   Tissot was founded in 1853 by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son Charles-Émile Tissot in the Swiss city of Le Locle, in the Neuchâtel canton of the Jura Mountains area. [2] The father and son team worked as a casemaker (Charles-Félicien Tissot) and watchmaker (Charles-Emile). His son having expressed an interest in watchmaking from a young ...

4. Quartz crisis - Wikipedia

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   Quartz movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969. The quartz crisis (Swiss) or quartz revolution (America, Japan and other countries) was the advancement in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and early 1980s, that largely replaced mechanical watches around the world.

5. Price index - Wikipedia

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   A price index (plural: "price indices" or "price indexes") is a normalized average (typically a weighted average) of price relatives for a given class of goods or services in a given region, during a given interval of time.

6. Watch - Wikipedia

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   Improvements in manufacturing – such as the tooth-cutting machine devised by Robert Hooke – allowed some increase in the volume of watch production, although finishing and assembling was still done by hand until well into the 19th century. Founded in 1735, Blancpain is the oldest registered watch brand in the world.

7. Tissot's indicatrix - Wikipedia

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   The Behrmann projection with Tissot's indicatrices The Mercator projection with Tissot's indicatrices. In cartography, a Tissot's indicatrix (Tissot indicatrix, Tissot's ellipse, Tissot ellipse, ellipse of distortion) (plural: "Tissot's indicatrices") is a mathematical contrivance presented by French mathematician Nicolas Auguste Tissot in 1859 and 1871 in order to characterize local ...

8. Nicolas Auguste Tissot - Wikipedia

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   Nicolas Auguste Tissot (French:; March 16, 1824 – July 14, 1907) was a French cartographer, who in 1859 and 1881 published an analysis of the distortion that occurs on map projections. He devised Tissot's indicatrix , or distortion circle, which when plotted on a map will appear as an ellipse whose elongation depends on the amount of ...

9. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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   High quality watches were produced by firms such as Patek Philippe, an example being a Patek Philippe ref. 1518, introduced in 1941, possibly the most complicated wristwatch ever made in stainless steel, which fetched a world record price in 2016 when it was sold at auction for $11,136,642. [196] [197] [198]