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	<title>Antique Pocket Watches</title>
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	<description>New, Vintage and Antique Pocket Watches</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Waltham Watch Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Waltham Watch Company, also know as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., produced about 40 million high quality watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time fuses and other precision instruments between 1850 and 1957.
Tags: Bulgari, Mondaine, Jules Jurgensen, Waltham International SA, Wincenty Gostkowski
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		<title>Pocket watch with an attached compass.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pocket watches are not common in modern times, having been superseded by wristwatches. Up until about the turn of the 20th century, though, the pocket watch was predominant and the wristwatch was considered feminine and unmanly. In men&#8217;s fashions, pocket watches began to be superseded by wristwatches around the time of World War I, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold-cased pocket watch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the United States, a gift of a gold-cased pocket watch is traditionally awarded to an employee upon his or her retirement. In that capacity, a &#8220;gold watch&#8221; has become a cultural symbol alluding to retirement, obsolescence, and old age.
Tags: U-Boat U.S., Aaron Lufkin Dennison, Stauer, Movado, old english pocket watches
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		<title>Watch companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For a few years in the late 1970s and 1980s three-piece suits for men returned to fashion, and this led to small resurgence in pocketwatches, as some men actually began using the vest pocket for its original purpose. Since then, a few watch companies make pocketwatches, and they have their firm adherents. However, in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timekeeping</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Railroad employees to this day are required to keep their watches on time, and are subject to spot checks by their superiors at any time. Failure to keep their watches on time can lead to disciplinary action, due to the gravely serious safety issues involved.
Additional requirements were adopted in later years in response to additional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Railroad pocket watch</title>
		<link>http://antiquepocketwatches.biz/collectors-notes/railroad-pocket-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[These standards read, in part:
&#8220;&#8230;open faced, size 16 or 18, have a minimum of 17 jewels, adjusted to at least five positions, keep time accurately to within 30 seconds a week, adjusted to temps of 34 to 100 °F. have a double roller, steel escape wheel, lever set, regulator, winding stem at 12 o&#8217;clock, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Railroad-grade watches</title>
		<link>http://antiquepocketwatches.biz/collectors-notes/railroad-grade-watches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The first steps toward codified standards for railroad-grade watches were taken in 1887 when the American Railway Association held a meeting to define basic standards for watches. However, it took a disaster to bring about widespread acceptance of stringent standards. A famous train wreck on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway in Kipton, Ohio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Railroad chronometers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The rise of railroading during the last half of the 19th century led to the widespread use of pocket watches. Because of the likelihood of train wrecks and other accidents if all railroad workers did not accurately know the current time, pocket watches became required equipment for all railroad workers.
Tags: Baume et Mercier, Roger Dubuis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watches with a quartz movement</title>
		<link>http://antiquepocketwatches.biz/collectors-notes/watches-with-a-quartz-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern manufacturers of pocket watches, especially those watches with a quartz movement, are not bound by tradition when regarding the orientation of movements and the cases they are inserted into (open-faced or hunter).
Sometimes, what appears to be a mechanism intended for use in a wristwatch is used as the mechanism for a pocket watch.
Tags: Fortis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunter cased watch</title>
		<link>http://antiquepocketwatches.biz/collectors-notes/hunter-cased-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pocket watches are commonly regarded as being one of two types: the open faced watch or the hunter cased watch (also called savonette from the French). The latter has a hinged front cover that protects the face and crystal of the watch. It can also serve as a light collector to illuminate the dial in [...]]]></description>
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