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Timex Group USA, Inc. (formerly known as Timex Corporation) is an American global watch manufacturing company founded in 1854 as the Waterbury Clock Company in Waterbury, Connecticut. In 1944, the company became insolvent but was reformed into Timex Corporation. In 2008, the company was acquired by Timex Group B.V. and was renamed Timex Group USA.
The building that housed the museum was the former executive office of the Scovill Manufacturing Company and Century Brass Company, and is the only remaining building of the 44-acre (180,000 m 2) brass mill complex. [5] Timex Group owed its origins to the Waterbury brass industry when the original clock company began in 1854 as a division of ...
When the Timex Group migrated the microprocessor-controlled, multi-motor, multi-hand technology to its Timex brand in 2012, [4] it created a sub-collection marketed as Intelligent Quartz (IQ). The line employed the same movements and capabilities from the TX brand, [ 4 ] at a much lower price-point -- incorporating indiglo technology rather ...
Under the TX brand, Timex marketed a line of quartz watches — debuting in Europe in late 2006 [2] and in the US in June 2007. They were noted for a proprietary microprocessor-controlled, multi-motor, multi-hand technology that enabled a range of specialized complications atypical to non-digital, analog watches [ 3 ] — an array of functions ...
Waterbury Clock sold the London-based arm of the Ingersoll watch business, Ingersoll, Ltd., to its board of directors in 1930, making it a wholly British-owned enterprise. [7] In 1944 the Waterbury Clock Company was renamed United States Time Corporation (now Timex Group USA ) and continued producing Ingersoll watches in the United States ...
Sebastian Baumann (1729–1805), German watchmaker, Friedberg, carriage clock. Louis Berthoud (1729–1807) Swiss chronometer maker, Paris. Abraham-Louis Perrelet (1729–1826), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, pocket watch. Jean-Marc Vacheron (1731–1805), Swiss watchmaker, Geneva, founder of Vacheron Constantin.
A varied version of that escapement has been used from the 1860s inside electrically driven pendulum clocks, the so-called "hipp-toggle". [83] Since the 1870s, in an improved version the pendulum drove a ratchet wheel via a pawl on the pendulum rod, and the ratchet wheel drove the rest of the clock train to indicate the time. The pendulum was ...
A Roskopf, pin-lever, or pin-pallet escapement is an inexpensive, less accurate version of the lever escapement, used in mechanical alarm clocks, kitchen timers, mantel clocks and, until the 1970s, cheap watches now known as pin lever watches. It was popularized by German watchmaker Georges Frederic Roskopf in its "proletarian watch" from 1867 ...