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  2. Grandfather clock - Wikipedia

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    Clocks of this style are commonly 1.8–2.4 metres (6–8 feet) tall with an enclosed pendulum and weights, suspended by either cables or chains, which have to be occasionally calibrated to keep the proper time. The case often features elaborately carved ornamentation on the hood (or bonnet), which surrounds and frames the dial, or clock face.

  3. Analog watch - Wikipedia

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    An analog watch A method to identify north and south directions using the sun and a 12-hour analogue clock or watch set to the local time, 10:10 a.m. in this example. An analog watch (American) or analogue watch (UK and Commonwealth) is a watch whose display is not digital but rather analog with a traditional clock face.

  4. Relojes Centenario - Wikipedia

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    Relojes Centenario (or Centenario Clocks) is the first manufacturer of monumental clocks in Latin America. It was founded by Alberto Olvera Hernández in the municipality of Zacatlán , Puebla , Mexico as a workshop on the family farm when he was a teenager.

  5. Watch - Wikipedia

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    A modern wristwatch featuring solar charging and Bluetooth capabilities A 1983 Casio watch with touchscreen. A watch is a timepiece carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities.

  6. Balance spring - Wikipedia

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    Drawing of one of his first balance springs, attached to a balance wheel, by Christiaan Huygens.. There is some dispute as to whether it was invented around 1660 by British physicist Robert Hooke or Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, with the likelihood being that Hooke first had the idea, but Huygens built the first functioning watch that used a balance spring.

  7. Vostok watches - Wikipedia

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    The Vostok Komandirskie, marked "ЗАКАЗ МО СССР", meaning "Ordered by the Ministry of Defence of the USSR" Vostok Komandirskie with manual 2414A movement.. The Vostok Watch Makers company was founded in 1942 when one of the Moscow watch-making plants of the First Moscow Watch Factory was evacuated to Chistopol, a small town located on the Kama River in Tatarstan. [3]

  8. Casio F-91W - Wikipedia

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    Designed by Ryūsuke Moriai as his first design for Casio, [5] the case of the F-91W measures 37.5 by 34.5 by 8.5 millimetres (1.48 by 1.36 by 0.33 in). The case is primarily made of resin, [6] with a stainless steel caseback and buttons, with the manufacturer's module number, 593, stamped on the caseback.

  9. Time in Florida - Wikipedia

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    Most of Florida is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC−05:00, DST UTC−04:00). The following parts of the Florida panhandle in northwest Florida are in the Central Time Zone (UTC−06:00, DST UTC−05:00): Bay County, 2010 population 168,852; Calhoun County, 2010 population 14,625; Escambia County, 2010 population 297,619; Holmes County, 2010 ...