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Button, coin, or watch cells. A button cell, watch battery, or coin battery is a small battery made of a single electrochemical cell and shaped as a squat cylinder typically 5 to 25 mm (0.197 to 0.984 in) in diameter and 1 to 6 mm (0.039 to 0.236 in) high – resembling a button.
The hand-winding movement of a Russian watch. A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio watches, which are quartz watches synchronized to an atomic clock via radio waves.
Shock resistant is a common mark stamped on the back of wrist watches to indicate how well a watch copes with mechanical shocks. In a mechanical watch, it indicates that the delicate pivots that hold the balance wheel are mounted in a spring suspension system intended to protect them from damage if the watch is dropped.
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A H. Moser & Cie. pocket watch (1917). H. Moser & Cie. manufactures its own watch components. [7] It launched the first three watches in 2005 after the brand was revived. [13] In 2006, the Perpetual Calendar from H. Moser & Cie. won the Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix. At Baselworld 2007, H. Moser & Cie. introduced the Straumann Hairspring. The ...
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The Federal Reserve’s decision to hold rates steady this week gives savers a critical window to secure certificates of deposit offering up to 4.40% APY through the weekend — returns that are ...