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2. Skeleton watch - Wikipedia

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   Patek Phillipe developed skeleton pocket watches for exhibition and display nearly a century later, in the mid-1800s. The same company began manufacturing skeleton pocket watches in the 1970s. [3] Skeleton watches take a lot of time and effort to make, so very few were produced in the 18th and 19th centuries.

3. Skeleton clock - Wikipedia

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   A skeleton clock would utilize a passing strike that struck just once on the hour. Nowadays the term skeleton clock is also used to describe modern skeleton clocks for wall. Unlike the 18th century skeleton clocks most of those contemporary timepieces are powered by the battery-operated quartz mechanism.

4. Automatic watch - Wikipedia

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   By the 1960s, automatic winding had become widespread in quality mechanical watches. Because the rotor weight needed in an automatic watch takes up a lot of space in the case, increasing its thickness, some manufacturers of quality watches, such as Patek Philippe, continue to design manually wound watches, which can be as thin as 1.77 millimeters.

5. Chinese standard movement - Wikipedia

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   Once the most commonly produced mechanical/automatic watch movements in China, the numbers produced and their quality (at least for a majority of produced movements) have since declined significantly; today the movement lives on typically in simple (even crude) automatic and skeletonized (i.e. using hollowed-out parts and segments such that the ...

6. Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication - Wikipedia

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   The Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication (no. 198.385) is one of the most complicated mechanical pocket watches ever created. The 18-karat gold watch has 24 complications and was assembled by Patek Philippe.

7. Tianjin Seagull - Wikipedia

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   In 1990, the Tianjin Watch Factory was awarded the status of a national company, and in 1992, the Tianjin Seagull Corporation was founded. That same year, the decision was made to discontinue the production of mechanical watches in favour of quartz watches; five years later it came to a complete reversal of this decision.