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2. List of most expensive watches sold at auction - Wikipedia

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   Finally, any auctioned watch without public online records from auctioneers (e.g. major auction houses) will not be included in the ranking. As of December 2022, the most expensive watch (and wristwatch) ever sold at auction is the Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime Ref. 6300A-010, fetching US$31.19 million (31,000,000 CHF) in Geneva on 9 ...

3. Rotary Watches - Wikipedia

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   Rotary Watches Ltd was established at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland by Moise Dreyfuss in 1895. By the 1920s family members Georges and Sylvain Dreyfuss began exporting Rotary watches to Britain, which was to become the company's most successful market. Rotary later became the official watch supplier for the British Army.

4. 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.

5. Fusee (horology) - Wikipedia

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   When the mainspring is wound up (Fig. 1), all the chain is wrapped around the fusee from bottom to top, and the end going to the barrel comes off the narrow top end of the fusee. So the strong pull of the wound up mainspring is applied to the small end of the fusee, and the torque on the fusee is reduced by the small lever arm of the fusee radius.

6. Hamilton Watch Company - Wikipedia

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   The Hamilton Watch Company was housed on a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) complex in Lancaster. Hamilton took possession of Aurora Watch Company's machinery shortly after incorporation. [citation needed] The first watch made under the Hamilton name was an 18-size 17-jewel pocket watch in 1893.

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