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  2. Daniel Quare - Wikipedia

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    Quare died on 21 March 1724, aged 75, at his country house at Croydon, and was buried in the Quaker burial ground, Chequer Alley, Bunhill Fields, on 27 March.The Daily Post of Thursday, 26 March, reported: "Last week dy'd Mr. Daniel Quare, watchmaker in Exchange Alley, who was famous both here and at foreign courts for the great improvements he made in that art, and we hear he is succeeded in ...

  3. Roger W. Smith - Wikipedia

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    During his time in the Institute, George Daniels was a visiting speaker, and from that moment Roger knew that he wanted to make watches by hand. Smith became interested in making watches by hand. Using instructions from Daniels' book Watchmaking he set about making his first pocket watch in his spare time. In 1990, Roger then aged 22 took the ...

  4. Watchclock - Wikipedia

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    A watchclock station with key hanging on a chain. A watchclock is a mechanical clock used by security guards as part of their guard tour patrol system which require regular patrols. The most commonly used form was the mechanical clock systems that required a key for manual punching of a number to a strip of paper inside with the time pre ...

  5. George Daniels (watchmaker) - Wikipedia

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    The "Daniels Method" refers to the conception, design and manufacture of a watch all by hand and this was the way George made all of his watches (excluding the crystal and hairspring). [4] Nearly all of these watches involved George expending over 2,500 man hours in the production of each watch with most watches each taking over a year to make. [5]

  6. Wheel train - Wikipedia

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    While being set, it is turned by the setting mechanism – in modern clocks, a setting knob on the back of the clock. In watches during setting it is turned by the minute wheel, which is turned by the keyless works. In older clocks the setting was done by opening the face and manually pushing the minute hand which rotated the cannon pinion ...

  7. Segal's law - Wikipedia

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    A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. [1] At surface level, the adage emphasizes the consistency that arises when information comes from a single source and points out the potential pitfalls of having too much conflicting information.

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