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2. Rotary Watches - Wikipedia

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   Rotary Watches Ltd was established at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland by Moise Dreyfuss in 1895. By the 1920s family members Georges and Sylvain Dreyfuss began exporting Rotary watches to Britain, which was to become the company's most successful market. Rotary later became the official watch supplier for the British Army.

3. Geneva drive - Wikipedia

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   The Geneva drive or Geneva mechanism is a gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel is usually equipped with a pin that reaches into a slot located in the other wheel (driven wheel) that advances it by one step at a time. The drive wheel also has an elevated circular ...

4. List of Swiss watch manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Rotary Watches: 1895 La Chaux-de-Fonds: Moise Dreyfuss Elm Yard, 13-16 Elm Street, United Kingdom Privately held company: Dreyfuss Group Ltd. Sandoz (watch company) Tavannes: Henri Sandoz Schwarz Etienne: 1902 Paul Arthur Schwarz and Olga Etienne La Chaux-de-Fonds: Privately held company: Solvil et Titus: 1892 Paul Ditisheim: Hong Kong, Hong Kong

5. Movement (clockwork) - Wikipedia

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   In watch movements the wheels and other moving parts are mounted between two plates, which are held a small distance apart with pillars to make a rigid framework for the movement. One of these plates, the front plate just behind the face, is always circular, or the same shape and dimensions as the movement.

6. Water Resistant mark - Wikipedia

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   Watches used for mix-gas diving which satisfy the test requirements are marked with the words "DIVER'S WATCH xxx M FOR MIXED-GAS DIVING". The letters xxx are replaced by the diving depth, in metres, guaranteed by the manufacturer. The composition of the gas mixture used for the test shall be given in the operating instructions accompanying the ...

7. Corum (watchmakers) - Wikipedia

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   Corum Double eagle coin watch. Corum has produced coin watches for over fifty years, with automatic, manual wind or quartz movements. They are available with a $20 Double eagle, $10 or $5 “Liberty” coin for a dial. They are also available with a diamond bezel.

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9. Tachymeter (watch) - Wikipedia

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   Tachymeter scale on a Citizen watch bezel. A tachymeter (pronounced / t æ ˈ k ɪ m ə t ər /) is a scale sometimes inscribed around the rim of an analog watch with a chronograph.It can be used to conveniently compute the frequency in inverse-hours of an event of a known second-defined period, such as speed (distance over hours) based on travel time (distance over speed), or measure distance ...