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2. Omega Marine Chronometer - Wikipedia

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   OMC calibre 1516. The Omega Marine Chronometer was the first quartz wristwatch ever to be awarded certified status as a marine chronometer.The watch was made by Omega SA and developed by John Othenin-Girard and is one of the most accurate non thermo-compensated production watches ever made, keeping time to within 1 second per month [1]

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   Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...

4. Omega Chrono-Quartz - Wikipedia

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   In 1977 Omega released the calibre 1620, which was a full digital LCD chronograph in numerous executions of Constellation and Speedmaster Professional. The full LCD display of the omega Chronograph rendered the Chrono-Quartz obsolete, at the same time changes in design and fashion moved towards slimmer and smaller watches, by comparison the ...

5. Omega SA - Wikipedia

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   Omega SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. [1] Founded by Louis Brandt in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1848, the company formerly operated as Louis Brandt et Fils [2] until incorporating the name Omega in 1903, becoming Louis Brandt et Frère-Omega Watch & Co. [3] [4] [5] In 1984, the company officially changed its name to Omega SA [6] and opened its museum in Biel/Bienne ...

6. Omega Seamaster - Wikipedia

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   The first full anti-magnetic movement and Master Chronometer certified by the COSC is the Omega Constellation "Pie-Pan" Globemaster. This movement is capable of having a see-through case-back (the cal. 8800 in the new Seamaster 300 M) characterized by a movement with fully anti-magnetic parts.

7. List of chronometers on HMS Beagle - Wikipedia

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   A boxed chronometer is mounted on gimbals attached to its box. A pocket chronometer is in the style of a pocketwatch. "Winding" refers to the number of days that a chronometer kept going before needing rewinding. However, they were all wound at precisely the same time every day, except for the eight-day chronometers which were wound weekly. [22]

8. Observatory chronometer - Wikipedia

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   An observatory chronometer is a timepiece that has passed stringent testing and a slate of accuracy tests. Thus, the "observatory trial" developed as the standard process for determining accuracy of timepiece movements. If the chronometer passed the stringent testing, it would be certified. In the world of mechanical timepieces, accuracy is ...

9. Chronometer watch - Wikipedia

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   The term chronometer was coined by Jeremy Thacker of Beverley, England in 1714, referring to his invention of a clock ensconced in a vacuum chamber. The term chronometer is also used to describe a marine chronometer used for celestial navigation and determination of longitude. The marine chronometer was invented by John Harrison in 1730.