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  2. List of most expensive watches sold at auction - Wikipedia

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    A Patek Philippe pocket watch. This list of most expensive watches sold at auction documents the watches sold at auction worldwide for at least 1.5 million US dollars.The final price listed is the total price paid by the buyer converted to US dollars, according to the currency exchange rate at the time of auction.

  3. Texas Department of Motor Vehicles - Wikipedia

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    Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Building 1, the headquarters. The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV) is a state agency of Texas, headquartered in Austin.The agency handles vehicle registration and titling, authorizes operating authorities of motor carriers, and gives grants to law enforcement agencies to increase public awareness about automobile theft and to reduce automobile theft.

  4. Pocket watch - Wikipedia

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    Waltham model 1899 pocket watch movement Movement of a gold Elgin pocket watch, c. 1919. Pocket watch movements are occasionally engraved with the word "Adjusted", or "Adjusted to n positions". This means that the watch has been tuned to keep time under various positions and conditions. There are eight possible adjustments: Dial up; Dial down

  5. Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication - Wikipedia

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    On 10 July 2014, Sotheby's announced that in November 2014, the pocket watch would once again be auctioned. [21] On 11 November 2014, the watch was sold in Geneva, Switzerland. The final price, bid by Aurel Bacs serving as proxy for an anonymous entity, reached 23,237,000 Swiss francs, equivalent to US$24 million at the time.

  6. South Bend Watch Company - Wikipedia

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    Several styles of pocket watches were manufactured and sold at prices ranging from $16 to $125. The watches were well received and the company was a success. Watch production was interrupted during World War I, when the company was contracted by the government to build gun sights. By the time watch production resumed in 1918, the market had ...

  7. Watch - Wikipedia

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    The first self-winding mechanism was invented for pocket watches in 1770 by Abraham-Louis Perrelet, [57] but the first "self-winding", or "automatic", wristwatch was the invention of a British watch repairer named John Harwood in 1923. This type of watch winds itself without requiring any special action by the wearer.

  8. Waltham Model 1857 - Wikipedia

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    The Waltham Model 1857 is a watch made by the American Watch Company, later called the Waltham Watch Company in Waltham, Massachusetts. The Model 1857 was first made in 1857. Prior to that year, pocket watches were not made of standard parts and repairing and making the watches was difficult and expensive. The American Watch Company created and ...

  9. George Daniels (watchmaker) - Wikipedia

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    The co-axial escapement. Daniels accepted a commission from Seth G. Atwood to create a timepiece that would improve the performance of mechanical watches. [8] By 1974, he had designed a new watch escapement and in 1976 incorporated it in his watch 10 as the Daniels independent double wheeled escapement.