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3. Watch - Wikipedia

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   A truly complicated watch has many of these complications at once (see Calibre 89 from Patek Philippe for instance). Some watches can both indicate the direction of Mecca [92] and have alarms that can be set for all daily prayer requirements. [93] Among watch enthusiasts, complicated watches are especially collectible.

4. History of watches - Wikipedia

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   The watch was wound and also set by opening the back and fitting a key to a square arbor, and turning it. The timekeeping mechanism in these early pocket watches was the same one used in clocks, invented in the 13th century; the verge escapement which drove a foliot , a dumbbell shaped bar with weights on the ends, to oscillate back and forth ...

5. Pocket watch - Wikipedia

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   A watch key was necessary to wind the watch and to set the time. This was usually done by opening the caseback and putting the key over the winding-arbor (which was set over the watch's winding-wheel, to wind the mainspring) or by putting the key onto the setting-arbor, which was connected with the minute-wheel and turned the hands.

6. Elgin National Watch Company - Wikipedia

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   The watch was an 18-size, full plate design. In 1869, the National Watch Company won "Best Watches, Illinois Manufacture" at the 17th Annual Illinois State Fair, for which it won a silver medal. [3] The company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.

7. List of watch manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Names in this list require an article about the watch brand or watchmaker This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .