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• Ingersoll
  [[File:Ingersoll Watch Company.jpg|thumb]] ...r-old Robert Hawley Ingersoll and his brother Charles Henry Ingersoll. The company initially sold low-cost items such as rubber stamps.
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• Rotary
  ...owned by Citychamp Watch & Jewellery Group Limited (an investment holding company formerly known as China Haidian Holdings until 2014). ...nly minor changes in appearance. In addition to its traditional brand, the company also produces watches under the more exclusive "Dreyfuss & Co" name.
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• The Watch Services Co
  ...966. Their 'Aircraft' brand used many Anglo-Celtic PY pocket- and RY wrist-watch movements while the Services 'Colonial' range used Newmark movements. They ...ical Director until 1972 when he too left (he was also a director of Swiss Watch Corporation (England) Ltd). Services then became simple importers and disap
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• Marathon
  ...tch, later to be named Wein Brothers. In 1939 Morris Wein founded Marathon Watch in Montreal, supplying fine precision timepieces to retailers throughout No ...ts), the Government of Canada (PWGSC, DND, CCC and other departments), the British Government (Ministry of Defence) and Israel Defense Forces.
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• CWC
  ==History of Cabot Watch Company== Cabot Watch Company was established in 1972 purely to make military watches for the military. T
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• The Services Watch Co
  ==The Services Watch Co== [[File:Aviation watch.jpg|thumb]]
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• Precista
  Supplier of watches to the British armed forces. ...orship of Southern Watch & Clock Supplies Ltd., an English watch materials company based in Orpington, Kent, who used the Precista name on watches that they p
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• PIERCE
  ==Pierce Watch Company== Pierce is a Swiss watch manufacturer.
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• JLC Mk11
  ...cknamed the air chronometer. Considered by many to be the original Pilot’s watch, it was made to the incredibly strict 6B/346 specifications and was one of ...the other equipment on the plane. It was, without doubt the most advanced watch issued to the military at the time.
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• Tudor
  n February 1926, the house of “Veuve de Philippe Hüther”, a watch dealer and maker, registered the trademark “The TUDOR” for Hans Wilsdor ...he best jewellery shops in the country. TUDOR “CATANACH’S” The rectangular watch with bevelled sides in chromium-plated metal presented here illustrates the
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• CWC G10
  ==CWC Cabot Watch Company G10== In 1980, the first quartz watch issued to the British Forces was made by [[CWC]]. The old logo was used for a couple of years and
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• Kelton/Timex
  ...r new UK Time Company of Bond Street, London, priced at 39/0d for a pocket-watch and between 55/0d and 73/0d for centre-secs wrist-watches. In spring 1959 they bought the '[[Laco]]' budget watch business and factory in West Germany. By 1960, Timex was producing 8 millio
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• Westclox
  ...oping the 'Big Ben' alarm, a Canadian factory was established in 1919. The company became a subsidiary of the General Time Corporation in 1930 and set up furt ...lthough Scotland initially produced only 4" movements. Their one millionth British-made clock was produced in September 1950; the factory was expanded by 40,0
  3 KB (416 words) - 15:31, 15 April 2020
• Rado
  ...the first scratch-resistant watch, the [[Rado DiaStar|DiaStar]]. Today the company produces about half a million watches a year with a staff of about 470 it i ...by the end of World War II the factory was among the largest producers of watch movements in the world.
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• History of Watches
  ...y worn in pockets until the 17th century. One account says that the word "watch" came from the Old English word ''woecce'' which meant "watchman", because ...machine devised by [[Robert Hooke]] allowed some increase in the volume of watch production, although finishing and assembling was still done by hand until
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• Officine Panerai
  ...Italy in 1860. Giovanni's grandson Guido Panerai (1873–1934) expanded the watch shop "Orologeria Svizzera" and took over his wife's family business, a mech ...r the GPF 2/56 were designed and manufactured by [[Rolex]] SA using pocket watch movements made by Swiss manufacturer Cortébert. The main driving forces be
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• Baume & Mercier
  ...n for exceptional timepieces incorporating the latest innovations, and the company went from strength to strength. Never straying from its motto to "accept on ...Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Burma. By the late 19th century, the company had already acquired a solid international reputation and was becoming an i
  6 KB (880 words) - 00:37, 5 June 2020
• Moeris
  ...n death of Jeanneret, in 1899. In 1882, Jeanneret also had changed his own company to Jeanneret & Fils. On the death of Jeanneret the company was dissolved, probably due to problems with the widow of Jeanneret, who ha
  4 KB (671 words) - 21:48, 21 April 2020
• Disposal of Surplus Timepieces after World War Two
  ==<big>Surplus British Military Timepieces post WW2</big></big>== ===<small>Kenneth Gordon writes on the disposal of British military timepieces directly after World War II</small>===
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• Gallet
  ..., military, sports, racing, and aviation use. Gallet is the world's oldest watch and clock making house with history dating back to Humbertus Gallet, a cloc ...6, Gallet was the world's first supplier of true wrist chronographs to the British Army. During the Second World War, it supplied watches to the armies of the
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