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• Dent (clocks and watches) — Dent was a London manufacturer of luxury clocks and watches, founded by Edward John Dent. Dent began making watches in 1814, although it wasn’t until 1876 that the Dent triangular trade mark was registered. Perhaps the company’s biggest coup is… …   Wikipedia

• Duties on Clocks and Watches Act 1797 — The Duties on Clocks and Watches Act 1797 (38 Geo. III, c. 108) was an Act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, instituting a tax on clocks and watches. The tax nearly ruined the manufactueres of clocks and watches as demand decreased… …   Wikipedia

• put the clocks back — (or forward) adjust clocks or watches backward (or forward) to take account of official changes in time * * * put the clocks forward/back idiom (BrE) (NAmE set/move the clocks ahead/back) to change the time shown by clocks, usually by one hour,… …   Useful english dictionary

• Vostok watches — Vostok (Russian: Восток, meaning East ) Watch Makers, Inc. produces mainly inexpensive, rugged military and diver mechanical watches at its factory in Chistopol, Tatarstan, Russia. It also makes clocks and watch movements for other watch brands.… …   Wikipedia

• atomic clocks — Clock Clock (kl[o^]k), n. [AS. clucge bell; akin to D. klok clock, bell, G. glocke, Dan. klokke, Sw. klocka, Icel. klukka bell, LL. clocca, cloca (whence F. cloche); al perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. clog bell, clock, W. cloch bell. Cf.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Phenix (watches) — The Phenix watch trademark was created in 1873 in Porrentruy, Switzerland. Phenix wasvague a real ‘Clockwork Manufacture’ meaning that all pieces of clock were produced on the site. Due to its craftsmanship and the quality of its clocks, the… …   Wikipedia

• 24-hour analog dial — Clocks and watches with a 24 hour analog dial have an hour hand that makes one complete revolution, 360°, in a day (24 hours per revolution). The more familiar 12 hour analog dial has an hour hand that makes two complete revolutions in a day (12… …   Wikipedia

• Escapement — redirects here. For the fisheries term for the stock surviving fishing pressures over a spawning cycle, see Spawn (biology). For other uses, see Escapement (disambiguation). A deadbeat escapement, used in many pendulum clocks. Click above to see… …   Wikipedia

• History of timekeeping devices — For thousands of years, devices have been used to measure and keep track of time. The current sexagesimal system of time measurement dates to approximately 2000 BC, in Sumer. The Ancient Egyptians divided the day into two 12 hour periods, and… …   Wikipedia

• Mainspring — For the 2007 novel by Jay Lake, see Mainspring (novel). An uncoiled modern watch mainspring …   Wikipedia

• Verge escapement — showing (c) crown wheel, (v) verge, (p,q) pallets Ve …   Wikipedia