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  • [[File:Fb1.1 casebfeb 1.1.png|thumb]] ==Ferdinand Berthoud FB 1==
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  • [[File:Longines 7150-1.jpg|thumb]] ==7150-1 Longines Super-Compressor Diver==
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  • ...he Geneva Watch Auction: SEVEN” organised by Phillips, a reference CK 2915-1 established a new world record for a Speedmaster selling for Swiss Franc 40 ...he most expensive Speedmaster ever sold at an auction: a reference CK 2915-1 produced in 1958 Image courtesy of Phillips]]
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  • [[File:Benrus 1 sterile.jpg|thumb]] * Water resistance: 1,200 feet
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  • ...he Geneva Watch Auction: SEVEN” organised by Phillips, a reference CK 2915-1 established a new world record for a Speedmaster selling for Swiss Franc 40 ...he most expensive Speedmaster ever sold at an auction: a reference CK 2915-1 produced in 1958 Image courtesy of Phillips]]
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  • [[File:Longines 7150-1.jpg|thumb]] ==7150-1 Longines Super-Compressor Diver==
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  • ...ed for 1.5-million CHF and with buyer’s premium totaled 1,812,318 CHF, or $1,812,500. It is the highest price ever paid for an [[Omega]] watch as of May
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  • *[[Omega Speedmaster CK2915-1]]
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  • [[File:Fb1.1 casebfeb 1.1.png|thumb]] ==Ferdinand Berthoud FB 1==
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  • ...ne of the first products by Porsche Design was a new all-black Chronograph 1. Clearly inspired by the Chronograph 1, the Pasadena has a large 41mm steel case with a lug-less design. While the
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  • * 1969 1,900,000 * 1968 1,752,000
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  • Bovet Fleurier SA is a Swiss brand of luxury watchmakers chartered May 1, 1822 in London, U.K. by Édouard Bovet. It is most famous for its pocket w
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  • [[File:Ads (1).jpg|thumb]]
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  • ==Beta 1== ...the International Chronometric Competition in Neuchâtel. Although the Beta 1 is often called the first quartz wrist watch movement, it was not intended
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  • * Manual wind date 1 jewel movement
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  • * 1975 6BB/ about 1,500 issued * 1976 W10/ about 1,000 issued
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  • ...is watch has 24 hours dial, and not 12 thus the standard time is read from 1 to 24 hours.
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  • Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was the first man in space aboard Vostok 1. And he wore a watch. Nothing special but probably one of the most signific The success of Vostok 1 was not only a victory for the Soviet space program. It was a victory for t
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  • * 1450 Bracelet - also seen with 1171/1 and 1479
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  • 1970s skin diver with rotating bezel and simple 1 jewel automatic movement. Waterproof to 5ATM with screw back. tritium lumed
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  • [[File:Benrus 1 sterile.jpg|thumb]] * Water resistance: 1,200 feet
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  • [[File:Bulova 666 1 sept 20.jpg|thumb]] * Reference: 386-1 to 381-4
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  • [[File:Bulova 666 1 sept 20.jpg|thumb]] * Reference: 386-1 to 381-4
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  • *Case size: Ø 39 mm / H 14,1 mm. ...5 minutes with the chrono activated at the first gunshot, it shows 5-4-3-2-1 as white figures on a blue background. Again after 5 minutes, as the final
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  • [[File:Benrus Type 1.jpg|thumb]] ...two of the most iconic military dive watches of the era: the [[Benrus Type 1 - Sterile US Military|Benrus Type I]] and [[Benrus Type II]]. Developed to
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  • ...0 vph or 21,600 vph. The 36,000 vph makes it possible to time intervals to 1/10th of a second.
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  • [[File:Heuer Skipper1-240x300.jpg|thumb|Skipper Version 1]] ===Heuer Skipper – type 1===
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  • ...ich automatically changes at noon to 12-24 hour markers and at midnight to 1-12 hour markers.
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  • ...mbo case as two) of the Yachtingraf were sold between 1966 and 1970. Type 1 (Valjoux 92), type 2 ( Valjoux 7733 or 7734) and type 3 (Valjoux 7734 with ===Yema Yachtingraf – type 1===
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  • ...econd hand with an appealingly smooth motion, but could record time within 1/10 of a second as well. Today the El Primero continues production as one of
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  • ...field models with a plastic housing and mechanical movements, but the Type 1 specified a much better movement, minimum 15 jewels, with greater accuracy
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  • The first product launched, [[Ferdinand Berthoud FB 1]], has an octagonal case with the hour and minute hands moved to a subdial
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  • ...ixed, pressed-on case back, just as the U.S. Military issued [[Benrus Type 1 - Sterile US Military|Benrus Types I]] and [[Benrus Type II|Type II]]
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  • [[File:1953 ta.jpg|thumb|1953 Thin Arrow 2777-1 - Richard Phillips]] Ref: 2777-1. 6B/542
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  • [[File:Hamilton-FAPD-5101-Type-1.jpg|thumb|Hamilton-FAPD-5101-Type-1]]
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  • [[File:Dodane-Type-20-gear-patrol-ambiance-1-938x370.jpg|thumb]]
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  • * 1975 6BB/ about 1,500 issued * 1976 W10/ about 1,000 issued
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  • *[[Benrus Type 1 - Sterile US Military]]
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  • ...entor" name was a tradename filed in 1953 and subsequently registered on 6/1/1954 as a trademark for a company supplying watches, parts of watches, and 1) The earliest Mentor mark is a simple "MENTOR" on the dial, with the art de
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  • * [[Benrus Type 1 - Sterile US Military]]
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  • [[File:1-300x266.jpg|thumb]] * Square case size: 38,0 x 42,1 mm / H 14,0 mm.
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  • * Length: 45,1 mm
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  • Depatment-store branded lower priced models in USA. Simple 1-jewel movements normally. Most notable is the Skin Diver model, reputedly w
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  • On 1 July 1882, the Swiss watchmaker Johann A. Hanhart opened a watch shop in Di
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  • ...el. With the unique style of its bezel numerals – oversized first digits (1, 2, 3, etc.) for the 10 minute markers, and its “roulette” date wheel (
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  • * 1975 6BB/ about 1,500 issued * 1976 W10/ about 1,000 issued
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  • Richemont Holdings (UK) Limited[1] ...rently owned by Richemont Holdings Limited and managed by CEO Andrew Maag.[1]
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  • * [[Nivada Depthmaster|Depthmaster]] was a diving watch, water resistant to 1,000 M.
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  • ...aStar]] 1. Marketed as "the world's first scratchproof watch", the DiaStar 1 was a response to customer demands for comfort, robustness and exclusive st
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  • ...e 1 represents the watch as it appears to the user. The hand of the second 1 is located in the centre of the movement and the dial includes an opening 2
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  • 1. High temperature: 48 hours at a temperature of 160°F (71°C) followed by 7. Acceleration: From 1 G to 7.25 G within 333 seconds, along an axis parallel to the longitudinal
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  • ...ures des Montres et Chronographes Pierce SA. In 1910 they already employed 1,500 employees - when at the same time approximately 24,000 inhabitants live ...of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Fast forward twenty-seven years and, in 1910, 1,500 of the town’s 24,000 inhabitants were employees of the company. Clear
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  • ...missions with Accutron timekeeping technology, starting with the Vanguard 1 in 1958. All timekeeping instruments, including instrument-panel clocks, ab ...under one of four families, hence referred to as Type 1, 2, 3 and 4. Type 1 includes all standard Astronaut variants, with the standard painted dial an
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  • * Size: 11 1/2
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  • * [[Nivada Depthmaster|Depthmaster]] was a diving watch, water resistant to 1,000 M.
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  • * [[Nivada Depthmaster|Depthmaster]] was a diving watch, water resistant to 1,000 M.
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  • * Water resistance: 1,200 feet
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  • In 1896 Ingersoll introduced a watch called the Yankee, setting its price at $1. This made it the cheapest watch available at the time, and the first watch ...duced the Crown pocket watch for 5 shillings, which was the same value as $1 at the time. These were made by a British subsidiary, Ingersoll Ltd, initia
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  • *[[Benrus Type 1 - Sterile US Military]]
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  • ...Eterna brought out their Les Historiques range of watches. The 'Airforce 1' clearly representing as a copy of the original 1936 watch. Though in this
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  • * Dial design is almost identical to DEF STAN 66-4(Part 5) Issue 2, Figure 1, Page 8
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  • * [[Nivada Depthmaster|Depthmaster]] was a diving watch, water resistant to 1,000 M.
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  • [[Rolex]]-made [[Panerai]] watches of Ref. 3646, 6152, 6154 and 6152/1 were equipped with Cortébert Cal. 618 16 Ligne pocket watch movements spec
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  • * [[Nivada Depthmaster|Depthmaster]] was a diving watch, water resistant to 1,000 M.
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  • .... The company also launched the P'6780 Diver that year, water resistant to 1,000 meters and only the brand's second dive watch.
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  • ...e, rotate the chapter ring until the correct day of the week is lined with 1 at the top of the dial. The idea is that you'll be able to tell at a glance
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  • 1. Casino Royale (1953) 1. From A View To A Kill (1959)
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  • ==== Version 1 - 691 - CountDown Bezel ====
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  • Ref: 2777-1. 6B/542
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  • ...s a full-rotor automatic movement based on an ETA ebauche (ETA 1256); a 11 1/12 ligne movement with 18.000 A/h. [[File:Gyromatic boxed 1.jpg|thumb|Boxed GP Gyromatic ref 7317 circa 1958 - Richard Phillips Collect
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  • ...on thermo-compensated production watches ever made, keeping time to within 1 second per month ...g large ears) boasted an accuracy of 12 seconds per year, which equated to 1 second per month, five times more accurate than the beta 21 (the first Swis
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  • ...er—the [[Longines SuperCompressor 7150-1|SuperCompressor]], Reference 7150-1.
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  • ...nopedia . They were named ‘The Undersea world of Jacques Cousteau.’ Volume 1 started in 1966 and ended in 1976. Volume 2 started in 1977 and finished in ...onochrome-watches.com/cousteau-and-the-timepieces-of-the-calypso-team-part-1/
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  • ...st watch in the world equipped with a programmable countdown function from 1 to 10 minutes with a mechanical memory. At first introduced in 2010 the wat
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  • ...861]] and was Omega’s very first commemorative numbered edition, with only 1,014 models being produced from 1969 to 1973. The very first of these was cr
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  • ...agarin]] made the first manned flight in outer space on the rocket, Vostok 1. In honour of this achievement, the Petrodvorets Watch Factory named its wa
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  • * [[Nivada Depthmaster|Depthmaster]] was a diving watch, water resistant to 1,000 M.
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  • ...ost over time, sadly. However the majority of observed examples do carry a 1 to 4 digit code in addition to the movement reference, normally the ETA 245
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  • ...factory and one jewel factory, employed 450 people and produced more than 1 million watches per year. In 1975 almost all the watches in the brochure ha
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  • ...ed his watchmaking business in the village of Les Ponts-de-Martel in 1886.[1][2] He began by specializing in complications, and especially repeater pock
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  • ...wrist-worn diving instruments and, between 1935 and 1970, delivered around 1,600 watches (c. 35 2533s, 1000 3646s, 24 6152s, 36 6154s, 500 6152/1s, and
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  • * EP 1 - 44 mm "Compteur"
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  • It’s estimated that only around 1,000 Tornek-Rayville TR-900s were made, and most were subsequently destroyed
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  • 1. Put as many links as possible in any new page….link back, forwards, up a
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  • ...was successful in producing a functioning quartz wrist watch calibre, Beta 1, by July 1967. As tested by the Neuchâtel Observatory, the resulting CEH-1
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  • *[[Longines SuperCompressor 7150-1]]
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  • ...is model was soon followed by the "Semikrograph", a stopwatch that offered 1/50 of a second timing, as well as a split-second function (which allows the ...atured a rotating bezel, marked in either hours, minutes, decimal minutes (1/100th minute increments), or with a tachymeter scale. All manual-wind Autav
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  • ...y fitting the winding shaft and bushing together, in the same material, to 1/500 mm.
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  • ...as 'poor' in time-keeping while the potential wear rate of their (and the 1-jewel Timex GBS) conical pivot was rated only 'fair' in contrast to [[Anglo
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  • ...oward, Davis & Dennison", were distributed among company officials. Number 1, given to Howard, is now at the Smithsonian Institution. Numbers 18 to 100 ...s to the name, existing Waltham Watch Company (Mass) shareholders received 1 share of the new company for every 5 shares of the original company.
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  • ...ials 'L B'). Later based at St George's House, 44 Hatton Garden, London EC.1, the business was continued after Louis Newmark's in 1924 by his widow, Eli ...by rationed materials until 1952 - it was a conventional jewelled lever 10-1/2 ligne movement. Many wrist-watches were modified for folding-case travel-
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  • ...e design, the Cal.200 5-1/4 x 8-3/4 ligne non- and sub-secs. A proposed 11-1/4 x 7 ligne went no further. ...in Great Britain or UK' models! These were available in 1/5th, 1/10th and 1/100th sec calibrations as stop/go-on 'timers', Work Study instant fly-back
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  • ...of Supply entitled ‘The Controlled Surplus Stores – Clocks and Watches (No 1) Order’. The Order provided maximum prices for the sale of certain govern ...aking, pocket timers were of two types measuring either at 1/5th second or 1/10th second intervals, and were supplied by various Swiss makers and [[Smit
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  • * 1 jewel.
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  • ...areholder in 1970, taking control of 43% of the stock. Ebauches then fired 1,300 workers. The next year, the board of directors forced Fred Lip to resig
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  • ...al Railways since 1986. This design, by Hans Hilfiker, originated in 1944.[1]
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  • ...6, would spawn five different variants, including the highly accurate Type 1 that constituted a serious departure from many of the plastic, disposable,
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  • ...exploration of space. But it was inevitably competitive, as well—Sputnik 1 was launched during IGY after all. [[File:1957 ad for croton aquamatic antarctic (1).png|thumb]]
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  • ...ony-based watchmaking company of A. Lange & Söhne. The Group employed some 1,440 persons.
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  • ...hese first Memovox models were equipped with the watch calibres K489, K489/1 or K601, which were wound manually. (The K601 also a later quartz movement
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  • *1967: Quartz movement Beta 1 (later Beta 21) included in the same category as mechanical movements. Last
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  • -watch worn by a motorbike racer over a distance of 1,000 miles.
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  • .... The company also launched the P'6780 Diver that year, water resistant to 1,000 meters and only the brand's second dive watch.
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  • ...ticking half a notch every 30 seconds. The final countdown minutes 5-4-3-2-1 then appear against a red background. The internals were a Valjoux 7737, a
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  • ...or many centuries they were involved in arts and craftsmanship. On October 1, 1913 Ariste Racine (1889 - 1958) and his wife Emma Blatt started a 'Manufa
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  • In the twenty-five years that Airman Model 1 was in production, there at least eighteen different models.
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  • ...brand on the map. In 1926, as a promotional effort, he offered a prize of $1,000 to the pilot who first succeeded in a nonstop flight across the Atlanti
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  • ...erbury Clock Company purchased the Robert H. Ingersoll & Bro. company for $1.5 million. The firm had gone bankrupt the previous year due to the post-war .... Timex sold Durowe to the Swiss movement manufacturer ETA SA on September 1, 1965.
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  • ...oduced with 7 variants, each with its own post-references suffix: Variants 1 and 2 had a back count bezel (The markers reading 50 through to 10 running
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  • ...esign to accommodate a change in movement, battery hatch also moved to the 1 o’clock position as viewed from rear.
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  • By 1930, the ratio of a wrist to pocket watches was 50 to 1. The first successful self-winding system was invented by [[John Harwood]]
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  • ...everal former Swiss watch movement manufacturers including Valjoux, Peseux[1][2] and Lemania.
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  • The Admiralty Mark II watch was supplied by two firms: (1) Thos. Armstrong & Bro, Manchester (using the Swiss 8-day Octava movement); ...ir Board specification was G.1 issued for the Goggle-Mask, Flying, Mk I on 1 October 1917).
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  • [[File:Benrus Type 1.jpg|thumb]] ...two of the most iconic military dive watches of the era: the [[Benrus Type 1 - Sterile US Military|Benrus Type I]] and [[Benrus Type II]]. Developed to
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  • ...maged by helium. Dive watches with water resistance ratings of over 300 m (1,000 ft) are often worn by mixed-gas divers, who breathe a mixture of helium ...sides of the watch were inspired by the tracks of tanks used in World War 1.
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