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  2. Seiko - Wikipedia

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    The first Grand Seiko, released in 1960, was based on Seiko's previous high-end watch, CROWN. This Grand Seiko has a 25-jewel, manual-winding, 3180 caliber, and its production was limited to 36,000 units. The watch was also the first chronometer-grade watch manufactured in Japan and was based on Seiko's own chronometer standard. [40] [41] Some ...

  3. List of ETA Movements - Wikipedia

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    2540 (manual wind, sweep-second, 17 jewels, 21600vph, reserve 44h) 2550 (automatic, sweep-second, 17/21/23 jewels, 21600vph, reserve 42h)

  4. Spring Drive - Wikipedia

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    The Spring Drive uses a conventional mainspring [3] and barrel [4] along with automatic and/or stem winding to store energy, just as in a mechanical watch. [3] However, the escapement and balance wheel in mechanical watches is replaced by Seiko's Tri-synchro Regulator system, a phase-locked loop wherein a rotor, which Seiko refers to as a "glide wheel", is powered by the mainspring barrel via ...

  5. Coaxial escapement - Wikipedia

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    The coaxial escapement is a type of modern watch escapement mechanism invented by English watchmaker George Daniels in 1976 and patented in 1980. It is one of the few watch escapements to be invented in modern times and is used in most of the mechanical watch models currently produced by Omega SA.

  6. Automatic quartz - Wikipedia

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    'Seiko Quartz Automatic Generating System' (A.G.S. = early Kinetic), Perpetuum Nobile (produced in 1989), Cal. 7M45, No. 246 of 700 Seiko AGS SCUBA Diver 200m 5M23-6A60, 1993 Automatic quartz is a collective term describing watch movements that combine a self-winding rotor mechanism [ 1 ] (as used in automatic mechanical watches ) to generate ...

  7. Automatic watch - Wikipedia

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    Rolex caliber 3175, released in 1988 and used until 1999 in the GMT-Master 16700 watch [citation needed] The Rolex Watch Company improved Harwood's design in 1930 and used it as the basis for the Shants Company, in which the centrally mounted semi-circular weight could rotate through a full 360° rather than the about 200° of the 'bumper ...

  8. Chronograph - Wikipedia

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    In 1816, his Compteur de Tierces timepiece beat at a rhythm of 216,000 vibrations per hour [9] (30 Hz). This frequency record stood for exactly one century, before eventually being broken in 1916, [10] after which standard chronometer frequencies returned to present-day levels (generally 5-10 Hz, or 18,000 to 36,000 vibrations per hour). Still ...

  9. Marine chronometer - Wikipedia

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    A marine chronometer is a precision timepiece that is carried on a ship and employed in the determination of the ship's position by celestial navigation.It is used to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and the time at the current location found from observations of celestial bodies.