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  2. Skeleton watch - Wikipedia

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    Patek Phillipe developed skeleton pocket watches for exhibition and display nearly a century later, in the mid-1800s. The same company began manufacturing skeleton pocket watches in the 1970s. [ 3 ] Skeleton watches take a lot of time and effort to make, so very few were produced in the 18th and 19th centuries.

  3. Tourbillon - Wikipedia

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    Tourbillon movement (high resolution)In horology, a tourbillion (/ t ʊər ˈ b ɪ l j ən /) or tourbillon (/ t ʊər b ɪ ˈ j ɒ n /; French: [tuʁbijɔ̃] "whirlwind") is an addition to the mechanics of a watch escapement to increase accuracy.

  4. Bianchet - Wikipedia

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    Bianchet is the first watchmaking company to have developed its entire watch movement architecture and watch cases using the golden ratio of 1.618 and the Fibonacci sequence as a design basis. It is also the first company to have developed a tonneau-shaped watch in carbon capable of resisting a pressure of 10ATM or 100 meters of water depth ...

  5. Skeleton clock - Wikipedia

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    The quartz movement used is a low cost, mass produced, plastic mechanism of no decorative value. It is disguised within the clock’s body therefore skeleton design is expressed in the open form of the clock face. Modern skeleton wall clocks have no visible back-plate. The wall background can be seen between the numbers or framework.

  6. Radium Girls - Wikipedia

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    Radium dial painters were instructed in proper safety precautions and provided with protective gear; in particular, they no longer shaped paint brushes by lip and avoided ingesting or breathing the paint. Radium paint was still used in dials as late as the 1970s. [27] The last factory manufacturing radium paint shut down in 1978. [28]

  7. Skeletonization - Wikipedia

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    Skeletonization is the state of a dead organism after undergoing decomposition. [1] Skeletonization refers to the final stage of decomposition, during which the last vestiges of the soft tissues of a corpse or carcass have decayed or dried to the point that the skeleton is exposed.