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  2. List of watch manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    This list is a duplicate of Category:Watch brands, which will likely be more up-to-date and complete. Manufacturers that are named after the founder are sorted by surname. Names in this list require an article about the watch brand or watchmaker

  3. Pallet fork - Wikipedia

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    Pallet fork with jewel pallets (pink) The pallet fork is above the balance wheel in this watch movement. The pallet fork is a component of the lever escapement of a mechanical watch. [1] The pallet fork and the lever form one component that sits between the escape wheel and the balance wheel. Its purpose is to lock the escape wheel, and release ...

  4. Movement (clockwork) - Wikipedia

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    All the parts of the watch were mounted between the two plates except the balance wheel, which was mounted on the outside of the back plate, held by a bracket called the balance cock. Three-quarter plate movement In the 18th century, to make movements thinner, part of the back plate was cut away to make room for the balance and balance cock.

  5. List of watchmakers - Wikipedia

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    Georges Louis Ruedin (1870–1935), Swiss watch producer, Berner Jura, director of the Société Horlogère Reconvilier. Jens Olsen (1872–1945), Danish clockmaker, Ribe, astronomical world clock in Copenhagen. Jämes Pellaton (1873–1954), Swiss watchmaker, Le Locle, tourbillon. Louis Cartier (1875–1942), French watchmaker, Paris, Cartier ...

  6. Clock face - Wikipedia

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    A wall clock showing the time at 10:09. A clock face is the part of an analog clock (or watch) that displays time through the use of a flat dial with reference marks, and revolving pointers turning on concentric shafts at the center, called hands.

  7. Elgin National Watch Company - Wikipedia

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    The watch was an 18-size, full plate design. In 1869, the National Watch Company won "Best Watches, Illinois Manufacture" at the 17th Annual Illinois State Fair, for which it won a silver medal. [3] The company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.

  8. 10 body parts you didn't know had names - AOL

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    10 body parts you didn't know had names. Sydney Levin. Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:12 PM. 10 Body Parts You Didn't Know Had Names. ... The lanule is the white, crescent-shaped part of the nail.

  9. 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]