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Abraham-Louis Perrelet. Abraham-Louis Perrelet (9 January 1729 – 1826) was a Swiss horologist. He was born in Neuchâtel, then in the Principality of Neuchâtel. His father, Daniel was a carpenter and a farmer and as soon as the young man was in a position to do some favours, he helped his parents on the farm. At the age of twenty years he ...
Festina Group. With more than 30 years of history, Festina Group is today an international company specialized in the production and commercialization of commercial price range watches and precision parts. The Group currently owns seven different brands of watches. Calypso, Lotus, Festina, Jaguar, Candino and two luxury brands Perrelet and L.Leroy.
Chronograph. An Omega Speedmaster Professional, which is commonly regarded as one of the most iconic chronographs ever produced. Gallet MultiChron Astronomic ( c. 1959 )—complex mechanical chronograph with 12-hour recording capabilities, automatic day, date, month, and moon phase display. A chronograph is a specific type of watch that is used ...
Tachymeter scale on a Citizen watch bezel. A tachymeter (pronounced / t æ ˈ k ɪ m ə t ər /) is a scale sometimes inscribed around the rim of an analog watch with a chronograph.It can be used to conveniently compute the frequency in inverse-hours of an event of a known second-defined period, such as speed (distance over hours) based on travel time (distance over speed), or measure distance ...
Like the real-life NFL playoffs, fantasy playoffs feature a select group of teams facing off in do-or-die matchups for 2-4 weeks (depending on your settings) to ultimately determine a season ...
A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio watches, which are quartz watches synchronized to an atomic clock via radio waves. A mechanical watch is driven by a mainspring which ...
Festina lente ( Classical Latin: [fɛsˈtiː.naː ˈlɛn.teː]) or speûde bradéōs ( σπεῦδε βραδέως, pronounced [spêu̯.de bra.dé.ɔːs]) is a classical adage and oxymoron meaning "make haste slowly" (sometimes rendered in English as "more haste, less speed" [1] ). It has been adopted as a motto numerous times, particularly by ...
An automatic watch, also known as a self-winding watch or simply an automatic, is a mechanical watch where the natural motion of the wearer provides energy to wind the mainspring, making manual winding unnecessary if worn enough. [1] It is distinguished from a manual watch in that a manual watch must have its mainspring wound by hand at regular ...