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2. Pin-pallet escapement - Wikipedia

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   An exception is Timex and Oris [5] [6] who in the 1960s produced fully jeweled pin-pallet watches. By 1980 inexpensive quartz watches took over the market for low-end watches which pin pallet watches had dominated, and production ceased. Quartz technology is gradually replacing the last uses of pin pallet movements in timers and alarm clocks.

3. Oris - Wikipedia

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   Oris was founded by Paul Cattin and Georges Christian in the Swiss town of Hölstein. They bought the recently closed Lohner & Co watch factory, and on 1 June 1904 the two men entered into a contract with the local mayor. They named their new watch company Oris after a nearby brook, and they began the industrial manufacture of pocket watches. [2]

4. Nico Leonard - Wikipedia

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   Nico Leonard van der Horst better known as Nico Leonard (born August 21, 1987) is a Dutch YouTuber, a watch expert or an enthusiast, and a entrepreneur credited with a genre of YouTube videos that centers on high-end watches, being the biggest watch-related YouTube channel and largest cross-platform creator regarding horology.

5. Oris (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   Oris is a Swiss watchmaker. Oris may also refer to: Oris, a Croatian architecture magazine; Oris Fergus, Montserratian cricketer This ...

6. Sandoz (watch company) - Wikipedia

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   The enterprise occupied a 'model factory' employing one thousand workers and producing 2,500 watches a day. [4] Sandoz was reported to have a paternalistic policy towards his workforce, exercising a fierce social control. [5] [6] Other names used by the Tavannes company at various times include Tavannes-Cyma, Bijou Watch Co., Tacy Watch Co ...

7. Chronograph - Wikipedia

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   The term chronograph comes from the Greek χρονογράφος (khronográphos 'time recording'), from χρόνος (khrónos 'time') and γράφω (gráphō 'to write'). '). Early versions of the chronograph are the only ones that actually used any "writing": marking the dial with a small pen attached to the index so that the length of the pen mark would indicate how much time had