Voorbeelden van timepiece

• Authors, instrument makers, public lecturers, and opportunists set their plans to solve the problem of longitude in published books or with displays of accurate timepieces.

• The timepiece in question seems to have relied upon the movement of a fluid, something like sand in an hourglass.

• Watson had also been involved in an earlier use of timepieces in the service of science, specifically medical science.

• Again, it is not enough to focus exclusively on the media, for tape, theodolite, sextant, timepiece and writing and drawing utensils come together in this visual culture.

• I have in front of me a timepiece which indicates the time.

• His design did not provide us with more than one timepiece; the timepiece that exists to-day is the one that he put there.

• If it does, it is simply a timepiece.

• Finally, it ran through its non-rechargeable batteries more swiftly than was convenient for a device meant to be worn as a timepiece.

• In spring driven timepieces, the drive force declines as the mainspring runs down.

• This firm continued the manufacture of many clock styles, primarily weight driven wall timepieces and regulators of fine quality.

• This announcement or striking feature is an essential characteristic of true clocks and distinguishes such watches from ordinary timepieces.

• The railroads recognized that safety was related to precise timing and all timepieces in a given area must be set to the same time.

• The timepieces were subsequently sold at auction for considerable sums.

• Since its beginnings, the company has produced complete watches with in-house movements, and throughout the 20th century, distributed many notable and important timepieces.

• It was chosen among more than 2,200 timepieces presented by watchmakers from 35 countries.