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2. Pocket watch - Wikipedia

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   A hunter-case pocket watch is a case with a spring-hinged circular metal lid or cover, that closes over the watch-dial and crystal, protecting them from dust, scratches and other damage or debris. The name originated from England where "fox hunting men found it convenient to be able to open their watch and read the time with one hand, while ...

3. Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication - Wikipedia

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   On 10 July 2014, Sotheby's announced that in November 2014, the pocket watch would once again be auctioned. [21] On 11 November 2014, the watch was sold in Geneva, Switzerland. The final price, bid by Aurel Bacs serving as proxy for an anonymous entity, reached 23,237,000 Swiss francs, equivalent to US$24 million at the time. The sum ...

4. Complication (horology) - Wikipedia

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   The company claims that it is the most complicated mechanical pocket watch ever created. The Reference 57260 took eight years to assemble, and has 2826 parts and 31 hands. It weighs 957 g (2.11 lb), and spans 98 millimetres (3.9 in).

5. Repeater (horology) - Wikipedia

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   A repeater is a complication in a mechanical watch or clock that chimes the hours and often minutes at the press of a button. There are many types of repeater, from the simple repeater which merely strikes the number of hours, to the minute repeater which chimes the time down to the minute, using separate tones for hours, quarter hours, and ...

6. Jean-Antoine Lépine - Wikipedia

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   It is important to note that the term "Lépine" can refer to both the calibre itself or a type of pocket watch with a flat, open-faced case in which the second wheel is placed in the axis of the winder shaft and the crown positioned at XII, [7] in opposition to the savonete (or hunter-case) watch where the second wheel and winder shaft are ...

7. Movement (clockwork) - Wikipedia

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   In horology, a movement, also known as a caliber or calibre (British English), is the mechanism of a watch or timepiece, as opposed to the case, which encloses and protects the movement, and the face, which displays the time. The term originated with mechanical timepieces, whose clockwork movements are made of

8. 'Deer of a lifetime': MS hunter bags incredible buck with 29 ...

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   When he looked at the photos, he couldn't believe what he saw. Mississippi deer hunter Hank Wentworth harvested a remarkable buck that has two double main beams and scored more than 205 inches. An ...

9. Watch - Wikipedia

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   A pocket watch is carried in a pocket, often attached to a chain. A stopwatch is a watch that measures intervals of time. During most of their history, beginning in the 16th century, watches were mechanical devices, driven by clockwork, powered by winding a mainspring, and keeping time with an oscillating balance wheel.