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119 relations: Abu Dhabi, Aesthetics, Amsterdam, Anchorage, Alaska, Auckland, Automatic watch, Azores, Balance spring, Balance wheel, Bangkok, Barrel (horology), Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Caracas, Centennial Exposition, Chicago, Chronograph, Clock, Clock face, Complication (horology), Corundum, Denver, Dhaka, Diamond, Dubai, Elgin National Watch Company, Era, Escapement, Frequency, Friction, Fusee (horology), Garnet, Gear train, Georges Frederic Roskopf, Greenwich Mean Time, Harmonic oscillator, History of watches, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Hooke's law, Hour, International Organization for Standardization, Jewel bearing, John Harrison, Karachi, Lever escapement, London, ..., Los Angeles, Mainspring, Marine chronometer, Mature technology, Minute, Moment of inertia, Moscow, Movement (clockwork), New York City, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Nouméa, Oscillation, Pallet fork, Paris, Pendant, Peter Henlein, Philadelphia, Pin-pallet escapement, Pocket watch, Puerto Rico, Quartz, Quartz clock, Quartz crisis, Railroad chronometer, Ratchet (device), Repeater (horology), Ruby, Samoa, Sapphire, Second, Skeleton watch, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Spring (device), Status symbol, Stiction, Stopwatch, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Tourbillon, UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00, UTC+13:00, UTC−01:00, UTC−02:00, UTC−03:00, UTC−04:00, UTC−05:00, UTC−06:00, UTC−07:00, UTC−08:00, UTC−09:00, UTC−10:00, UTC±00:00, Vancouver, Verge escapement, Waltham Watch Company, Watch, Wheel train. Expand index (69 more) »
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (أبو ظبي) is the capital and the second most populous city of the United Arab Emirates (the most populous being Dubai), and also capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the largest of the UAE's seven emirates.
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Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.
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Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage) (Dena'ina Athabascan: Dgheyaytnu) is a unified home rule municipality in the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Auckland
Auckland is a city in New Zealand's North Island.
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Automatic watch
An automatic or self-winding watch is a mechanical watch in which the mainspring is wound automatically as a result of the natural motion of the wearer to provide energy to run the watch, making manual winding unnecessary.
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Azores
The Azores (or; Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal.
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Balance spring
A balance spring, or hairspring, is a spring attached to the balance wheel in mechanical timepieces.
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Balance wheel
A balance wheel, or balance, is the timekeeping device used in mechanical watches and some clocks, analogous to the pendulum in a pendulum clock.
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Bangkok
Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Thailand.
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Barrel (horology)
Used in mechanical watches and clocks, a barrel is a cylindrical metal box closed by a cover, with a ring of gear teeth around it, containing a spiral spring called the mainspring, which provides power to run the timepiece.
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Beijing
Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.
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Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.
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Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.
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Cairo
Cairo (القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt.
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Caracas
Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and centre of the Greater Caracas Area, and the largest city of Venezuela.
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Centennial Exposition
The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World's Fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November 10, 1876, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Chronograph
A chronograph is a specific type of watch that is used as a stopwatch combined with a display watch.
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Clock
A clock is an instrument to measure, keep, and indicate time.
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Clock face
A clock face, or dial, is the part of an analog clock (or watch) that displays the time through the use of a fixed-numbered dial or dials and moving hands.
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Complication (horology)
In horology, a complication refers to any feature in a mechanical timepiece beyond the simple display of hours and minutes.
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Corundum
Corundum is a crystalline form of aluminium oxide typically containing traces of iron, titanium, vanadium and chromium.
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Denver
Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Dhaka
Dhaka (or; ঢাকা); formerly known as Dacca is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
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Diamond
Diamond is a solid form of carbon with a diamond cubic crystal structure.
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Dubai
Dubai (دبي) is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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Elgin National Watch Company
The Elgin National Watch Company, commonly known as Elgin Watch Company, was a major US watch maker from 1864 to 1968.
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Era
An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth.
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Escapement
An escapement is a device in mechanical watches and clocks that transfers energy to the timekeeping element (the "impulse action") and allows the number of its oscillations to be counted (the "locking action").
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Frequency
Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.
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Friction
Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.
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Fusee (horology)
Used in antique spring-powered mechanical watches and clocks, a fusee is a cone-shaped pulley with a helical groove around it, wound with a cord or chain which is attached to the mainspring barrel.
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Garnet
Garnets are a group of silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives.
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Gear train
A gear train is a mechanical system formed by mounting gears on a frame so the teeth of the gears engage.
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Georges Frederic Roskopf
Georges Frederic Roskopf (15 March 1813 – 14 April 1889), the inventor of the pin-pallet escapement, was born in Germany and became a naturalized Swiss citizen.
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Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.
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Harmonic oscillator
In classical mechanics, a harmonic oscillator is a system that, when displaced from its equilibrium position, experiences a restoring force, F, proportional to the displacement, x: where k is a positive constant.
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History of watches
The history of watches began in 16th century Europe, where watches evolved from portable spring-driven clocks, which first appeared in the 15th century.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.
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Honolulu
Honolulu is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaiokinai.
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Hooke's law
Hooke's law is a principle of physics that states that the force needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance scales linearly with respect to that distance.
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Hour
An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr.) is a unit of time conventionally reckoned as of a day and scientifically reckoned as 3,599–3,601 seconds, depending on conditions.
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International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.
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Jewel bearing
A jewel bearing is a plain bearing in which a metal spindle turns in a jewel-lined pivot hole.
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John Harrison
John Harrison (– 24 March 1776) was a self-educated English carpenter and clockmaker who invented a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.
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Karachi
Karachi (کراچی; ALA-LC:,; ڪراچي) is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.
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Lever escapement
The lever escapement, invented by British clockmaker Thomas Mudge in 1755, is a type of escapement that is used in almost all mechanical watches, as well as small mechanical non-pendulum clocks, alarm clocks, and kitchen timers.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Mainspring
A mainspring is a spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon—commonly spring steel—used as a power source in mechanical watches, some clocks, and other clockwork mechanisms.
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Marine chronometer
A marine chronometer is a timepiece that is precise and accurate enough to be used as a portable time standard; it can therefore be used to determine longitude by means of celestial navigation.
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Mature technology
A mature technology is a technology that has been in use for long enough that most of its initial faults and inherent problems have been removed or reduced by further development.
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Minute
The minute is a unit of time or angle.
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Moment of inertia
The moment of inertia, otherwise known as the angular mass or rotational inertia, of a rigid body is a tensor that determines the torque needed for a desired angular acceleration about a rotational axis; similar to how mass determines the force needed for a desired acceleration.
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Moscow
Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.
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Movement (clockwork)
In horology, a movement, also known as a caliber, is the mechanism of a clock or watch, as opposed to the case, which encloses and protects the movement, and the face, which displays the time.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nicolas Fatio de Duillier
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (also spelled Faccio or Facio; 16 February 1664 – 12 May 1753) was a Swiss-born mathematician, natural philosopher, inventor, and religious campaigner.
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Nouméa
Nouméa is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia.
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Oscillation
Oscillation is the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states.
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Pallet fork
The pallet fork is a component of the lever escapement of a mechanical watch.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.
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Pendant
The word pendant derives from the Latin word pendere and Old French word pendr, both of which translate to "to hang down".
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Peter Henlein
Peter Henlein (also spelled Henle or Hele) (1485 - August 1542), a locksmith and clockmaker of Nuremberg, Germany, is often considered the inventor of the watch.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
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Pin-pallet escapement
A Roskopf, pin-lever, or pin-pallet escapement is an inexpensive, less accurate version of the lever escapement, used in mechanical alarm clocks, kitchen timers, mantel clocks and, until the 1970s, cheap watches now known as pin lever watches.
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Pocket watch
A pocket watch (or pocketwatch) is a watch that is made to be carried in a pocket, as opposed to a wristwatch, which is strapped to the wrist.
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.
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Quartz
Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.
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Quartz clock
A quartz clock is a clock that uses an electronic oscillator that is regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time.
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Quartz crisis
The quartz crisis (also known as the quartz revolution) is a term used in the watchmaking industry to refer to the economic upheavals caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and early 1980s, which largely replaced mechanical watches.
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Railroad chronometer
A railroad chronometer or railroad standard watch is a specialized timepiece that once was crucial for safe and correct operation of trains in many countries.
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Ratchet (device)
A ratchet is a mechanical device that allows continuous linear or rotary motion in only one direction while preventing motion in the opposite direction.
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Repeater (horology)
A repeater is a complication in a mechanical watch or clock that audibly chimes the hours and often minutes at the press of a button.
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Ruby
A ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide).
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Samoa
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa (Malo Saʻoloto Tutoʻatasi o Sāmoa; Sāmoa) and, until 4 July 1997, known as Western Samoa, is a unitary parliamentary democracy with eleven administrative divisions.
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Sapphire
Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminium oxide.
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Second
The second is the SI base unit of time, commonly understood and historically defined as 1/86,400 of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds each.
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Skeleton watch
A skeleton watch is a mechanical watch, in which all of the moving parts are visible through either the front of the watch, the back of the watch or a small cut outlining the dial.
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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Spring (device)
A spring is an elastic object that stores mechanical energy.
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Status symbol
A status symbol is a perceived visible, external denotation of one's social position and perceived indicator of economic or social status.
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Stiction
Stiction is the static friction that needs to be overcome to enable relative motion of stationary objects in contact.
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Stopwatch
A stopwatch is a handheld timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed from a particular time when it is activated to the time when the piece is deactivated.
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Sydney
Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Tokyo
, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.
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Toronto
Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.
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Tourbillon
In horology, a tourbillon ("whirlwind") is an addition to the mechanics of a watch escapement.
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UTC+01:00
UTC+01:00, known simply as UTC+1, is a time offset that adds 1 hour to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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UTC+02:00
UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02.
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UTC+03:00
UTC+03:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +03.
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UTC+04:00
UTC+04:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +04.
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UTC+05:00
UTC+05:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +05:00.
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UTC+06:00
UTC+06:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +06:00.
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UTC+07:00
UTC+07:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +07:00.
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UTC+08:00
UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00.
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UTC+09:00
UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09.
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UTC+10:00
UTC+10:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +10.
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UTC+11:00
UTC+11:00 is an identifier for an +11 hour time offset from UTC.
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UTC+12:00
UTC+12:00 is an identifier for a +12 hour time offset from UTC.
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UTC+13:00
UTC+13:00 is an identifier for a +13 hour time offset from UTC.
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UTC−01:00
UTC−01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −01.
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UTC−02:00
UTC−02:00 is a time offset that subtracts 2 hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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UTC−03:00
UTC−03:00 is a time offset that subtracts 3 hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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UTC−04:00
UTC−04:00 is a time offset that subtracts 4 hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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UTC−05:00
UTC−05:00 is a time offset that subtracts five hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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UTC−06:00
UTC−06:00 is a time offset that subtracts six hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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UTC−07:00
UTC−07:00 is a time offset that subtracts 7 hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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UTC−08:00
UTC−08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −08.
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UTC−09:00
UTC−09:00 is a time offset that subtracts 9 hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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UTC−10:00
UTC−10:00 is a time offset that subtracts 10 hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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UTC±00:00
UTC±00:00 is the following time.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
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Verge escapement
The verge (or crown wheel) escapement is the earliest known type of mechanical escapement, the mechanism in a mechanical clock that controls its rate by allowing the gear train to advance at regular intervals or 'ticks'.
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Waltham Watch Company
The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time fuses, and other precision instruments between 1850 and 1957.
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Watch
A watch is a timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person.
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Wheel train
In horology, a wheel train (or just train) is the gear train of a mechanical watch or clock.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_watch
