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2. Repeater (horology) - Wikipedia

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   The 13 in (33 cm) watch by Louis Brandt (1892) was the first wristwatch with a minute repeater. The movement was manufactured by Audemars Piguet.. A repeater is a complication in a mechanical watch or clock that chimes the hours and often minutes at the press of a button.

3. Clockmaker - Wikipedia

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   A qualified clockmaker can typically design and make a missing piece for a clock without access to the original component. Clockmakers generally do not work on watches ; the skills and tools required are different enough that watchmaking is a separate field, handled by another specialist, the watchmaker .

4. Time Piece - Wikipedia

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   Time Piece is a 1965 American independent [4] [5] experimental short film directed, written, produced by and starring Jim Henson. [6] The film depicts an ordinary man living in constant motion, in a desperate attempt to escape the passage of time . [ 7 ]

5. Chronometry - Wikipedia

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   Time metrology or time and frequency metrology is the application of metrology for timekeeping, including frequency stability. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Its main tasks are the realization of the second as the SI unit of measurement for time and the establishment of time standards and frequency standards as well as their dissemination .

6. Watch timing machine - Wikipedia

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   A watch timing machine or timegrapher is a ... and provides a summary of these figures after the watch is connected to the device for a fixed interval of time ...

7. Complication (horology) - Wikipedia

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   The watch was reportedly the culmination of a watch arms race between Graves and James Ward Packard. The Super-complication took three years to design and five to build, and sports a chart of the nighttime sky at Graves' home in New York. It remains the most complicated watch (920 parts) [17] built without the assistance of computers. [18]