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2. Pocket watch - Wikipedia

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   Pocket watch. Savonette with cathedral hands and luminescent dial made by Thos. Russell & Son (probably in the 1920’s) A golden pocket watch with hunter-case and watch chain. Pocket watches evolved from clock-watches, supposedly called Nuremberg eggs, worn on chains around the neck. Example by Peter Henlein, 1510, Germanisches Nationalmuseum ...

3. Elgin National Watch Company - Wikipedia

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   Pocket watches, wrist watches, bomb sights and precision instruments. The Elgin National Watch Company, commonly known as Elgin Watch Company, was a major US watch maker from 1864 to 1968. The company sold watches under the names Elgin, Lord Elgin, and Lady Elgin. For nearly 100 years, the company's manufacturing complex in Elgin, Illinois, was ...

4. Westclox - Wikipedia

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   Watches. The Westclox company was a major manufacturer of dollar watches. It started production of an inexpensive, back-winding pocket watch in 1899, which was intended to be affordable to any working person. The company continued to produce cheap pocket watches into the 1990s.

5. Theodore Roosevelt's pocket watch returns home 37 years ... - AOL

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   Roosevelt had several watches, and while Special Agent Robert Giczy, a member of the FBI Art Crime Team, described it as "a fairly pedestrian Waltham 17 jewel watch with an inexpensive coin silver ...

6. Regina pocket watches - Wikipedia

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   The National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors describes Regina watches as an inferior brand of Omega, but mentions that some were adjusted highly enough to be used as railroad timepieces, which was the standard for quality watches. The use of Regina watches for railroad timekeeping is documented on other sites as well. For example ...

7. List of watchmakers - Wikipedia

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   Leopold Hoys (1713–1797), German clockmaker, Bamberg, John Whitehurst (1713–1788), English clockmaker, Derby. Jean Romilly (1714–1796), Swiss watchmaker, Paris, pocket watch. Jean François Poncet (1714–1804), Swiss watchmaker of French origin, clockmaker of the court in Dresden and director of the Grünes Gewölbe.