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2. Pocket watch - Wikipedia

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   Pocket watches generally have an attached chain to allow them to be secured to a waistcoat, lapel, or belt loop, and to prevent them from being dropped. Watches were also mounted on a short leather strap or fob, when a long chain would have been cumbersome or likely to catch on things. This fob could also provide a protective flap over their ...

3. Speidel - Wikipedia

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   Speidel is a manufacturer of watchbands and related items based in East Providence, Rhode Island, United States.It was originally founded in Germany by Friedrich Speidel in 1867 as a manufacturer of gold and silver chains.

4. 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.

5. Cigar cutter watch fob - Wikipedia

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   Both men's and women's watches were commonly attached to decorative fobs. However, because women were discouraged from smoking in public, [9] it was primarily men who wore the cigar cutter variety. The men's pocket watch was most ordinarily carried in a watch pocket (still seen today in some suit vests and most jeans [10]). It was almost always ...

6. Chatelaine (chain) - Wikipedia

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   Chatelaine bags refer to bags suspended from a waistband by cord or chain, which were popular from the 1860s to the end of the 19th century. [8] Chatelaines were worn by many housekeepers in the 19th century [9] and in the 16th century Dutch Republic, [citation needed] where they were typically used as watch chains for the most wealthy. Similar ...

7. 7 men charged in connection with burglaries of professional ...

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   The safe -- which contained several watches, chains, personal items, jewelry, and cash -- was stolen, along with a designer suitcase and designer bags, authorities said.