He locks our smartphones and wristwatches into a Faraday cage.
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It is enough to make you swear off wristwatches forever.
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Human accouterments like wristwatches get lost in the pine needles.
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Wearables such as wristwatches and earbuds don't have the same problem.
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Traditional French aesthetics do not allow wristwatches at night, she said.
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Wristwatches are a fun fashion accessory, and the choices are nearly endless.
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It tracks distances with built-in GPS, a staple of Garmin's Forerunner wristwatches.
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He dislikes mezcal, cats, cologne and any other artificial scents, elevators, and wristwatches.
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No wristwatches, no trousers for women, women had to wear their hair down.
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Big words, but is the world of luxury wristwatches finally ready to get smart?
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And that's a tension as painful now as it was when wristwatches were new.
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He later inspired Louis-François to pioneer wristwatches—previously a feminine accessory—for men.
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Describing Ruth's endorsement of Benrus wristwatches, she introduces quartz technology several decades too soon.
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The lines seem to be blurring between wristwatches and health-specific wristwear such as Fitbits.
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These sort of watches have a storied history that predate wristwatches by hundreds of years.
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But Baume is based online, offering unisex, customizable wristwatches with an emphasis on sustainable manufacturing.
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We even wear it on ourselves in the form of wristwatches that monitor our health.
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Throughout the years, MI6 kept him outfitted in nothing but the best cars, wristwatches, and weapons.
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John lives in Brooklyn, NY and writes about technology, security, gadgets, gear, wristwatches, and the Internet.
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Most of the girls in my class have asked for pearls or wristwatches as graduation gifts.
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Solar-powered wristwatches aren't a particularly new concept; Casio and Citizen are two particularly well-known brands.
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Yet the real star of the show is the watch's face, which mimics a movement impossible on most wristwatches.
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Picture Prompts Are wristwatches simply a cool and sometimes expensive fashion accessory, or are they still necessary and functional?
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They are discussing wristwatches—water resistance, the choice of strap—and yet we feel like observers of a solemn rite.
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Smartphones are multifunctional devices that are swiftly replacing other devices, like our cameras, our televisions, our computers and our wristwatches.
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Techies loved it, as did younger buyers, many of whom were introduced to the whole idea of wristwatches by it.
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Those from the South had brought with them bags filled with medicine, nutritional supplements, wristwatches and other gifts for their relatives.
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WALK down the street in a Chinese city, and you are likely to see nearly as many kouzhao as eyeglasses or wristwatches.
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Last year, 124 South Korean companies hired 54,000 North Korean workers to produce socks, wristwatches and other goods worth about $500 million.
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Rare watch sells for $11 million, breaking records With that kind of money you could buy, like, a lot of other wristwatches.
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So all the mechanical innovations of wristwatches in the last 100 years have left an imprint on the shape of watch lettering.
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The speechmaking moved down the line, with the dignitaries' chronographic wristwatches throwing off flecks of sun as they praised the Sandinista revolution.
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The loot includes 5 luxury wristwatches -- some worth more than $50k -- a Frank Gehry sculpture, and several other expensive works of art.
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Gem-laden wristwatches tend to round out the seasonal offerings at high-jewelry houses, accents rather than centerpieces of the glittering collections.
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"Analog wristwatches remain popular among older consumers, but younger buyers are tipping toward smartwatches and computerized wristwear," Strategy Analytics said in its report.
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Among NASA's gadgets are wristwatches that monitor sleep and light levels, caps that record electric signals in the brain and a robotic arm.
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The centerpiece of their marketing efforts was Punchy, a cheeky pugilist splashed across schoolbook covers, Sunday newspaper comics, drinking cups and branded wristwatches.
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With its numerous health-related features, the Apple Watch has helped blur the lines between traditional wristwatches and health-specific wristwear such as Fitbits.
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Neil Mawston, Strategy Analytics' executive director, added: "Analog wristwatches remain popular among older consumers, but younger buyers are tipping toward smartwatches and computerized wristwear."
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Most jewelry does not need to be removed, such as rings, necklaces, or wristwatches, unless they are what could be defined as being oversize.
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He wants to give them billionaire trading cards — "Here kid," you imagine him saying, "be best" — or expensive wristwatches they can learn to maintain.
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More so, Switzerland is mainly making money off of wristwatches, and the majority of profits come from their most expensive timepieces, which sell fewer units.
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"Analog wristwatches remain popular among older consumers, but younger buyers are tipping toward smartwatches and computerized wristwear," writes Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics.
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If you guessed "double-wristing," the totally gratuitous but weirdly enduring practice of wearing two wristwatches at once, you're possibly guilty of the extraneous practice yourself.
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But the sales situation certainly has changed: More than 120 of the 204 Simplicity wristwatches that he made from 2000 to 2012 were sold in Japan.
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Dive computers are small devices, often worn like wristwatches, that let divers track and calculate important information, such as when they need to take a decompression stop.
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Arnond Sakworawich said he was quitting for "academic freedom" after coming under pressure from administrators not to publish the results of a survey on "Borrowed Pricey Wristwatches".
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He says similar mistakes -- like Vikings or Indians wearing wristwatches -- happen on TV and in movies all the time ... they're just not as high-profile as 'Thrones.
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In 2017 alone, she bought two more Vacheron Constantin wristwatches: a Traditionelle that marked the brand's centenary in the Japanese market, and a vintage square 222 model.
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This opportunity may not seem significant to the cellphone-toting masses who think of mechanical wristwatches as anachronistic devices once used by their grandparents to tell time.
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You can place ads for it and ads for wristwatches in the same glossy lifestyle magazine, but wine just channels an energy more persistent, potent and profound.
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Family Time Gary Shteyngart's article about his year as a watch obsessive brought to mind my own father's love of five-dollar wristwatches ("Time Out," March 20th).
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Once, in 1980, in one of his three presidential bids, he told a student journalist that, one day, people would be making phone calls from their wristwatches.
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Channelling the tech company's innovation, Apple designer Marc Newson revamped the traditional hourglass to create this ridiculously expensive, limited-edition product for HODINKEE, a publication specializing in wristwatches.
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The Musée International d'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, features timepieces and wristwatches, including one that announces the time every 10 seconds in French, German and English.
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Cellphones serve as the timekeeping device of choice for far more people than wristwatches, and they do so far more accurately than even the most precise mechanical watch.
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Debuting radical new tech is tough, especially in a space where consumers are already serviced (to an extent) by wristwatches and other wrist jewelry, both functionally and aesthetically.
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For anyone traveling across time zones on the ground, I would recommend mapping out the route ahead of time and remaining vigilant about changing wristwatches and digital clocks.
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In 2014, for example, FIFA struggled to persuade members to return dozens of $26,000 wristwatches distributed to them by the organizers of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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Manousos agrees that while their limited lifespans make luxury smartwatches a difficult proposition, they're just like wristwatches in that they can be used to connote style or individuality.
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" In West Baltimore he talks wristwatches with a drug dealer and ends up with a rock of crack cocaine tinged with the sharp yellow "of a newborn Parmesan.
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Angell veterinarians have "removed all manner of objects from the bellies of pets, from guitar strings and wristwatches, to safety pins, diamond rings, perfume bottles and more," reports MSPCA.
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As wristwatches fall in popularity there is less to be made in the luxury watch market, making it all the more important for storied brands to fight back against fakes.
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Marine chronographs are still a specialty, but the brand also offers dressier, classically designed mechanical wristwatches, with hand-enameled dials that range from simple and understated to colorful and elaborate.
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Along a stretch of five or six blocks, vendors selling everything from wristwatches to dish towels to pirated DVDs began their operations on the sidewalk and bled into the street.
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Unlike Citizen's wristwatches — which are known for their solar-powered Eco Drive movements that never need batteries replaced — the Citizen Smart Clocks are are powered by four C-type batteries.
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The list includes wristwatches and bedside alarm clocks; remote controls and light switches; point-and-shoot cameras; printed maps and calendars; and home stereos and MP3 players, including Apple's own iPod.
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There is a huge supply of pre-owned contemporary wristwatches on the market and most of the time there is no secondary market supporting them; it's just sort of willy-nilly.
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The human relationship with time changed substantially with the arrival of modernity — trains and telegraphs and wristwatches all around — and we can see it changing yet again in our globally networked era.
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Navigating beeping cars and buses, gleaming displays of wristwatches and knockoff Tommy Hilfiger shirts, I found a sweet, earthy cup of freshly-squeezed sugar cane juice (30 rupees for a large cup).
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In 2009, Ingels co-founded KiBiSi, a collaborative industrial-design studio that has worked on projects like minimalist wristwatches, a streamlined electric bike, and a chair in the shape of Via 57 West.
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I will spend hour after hour donning faux-silk gloves and huddling with watch company publicists in windowless rooms, throwing back free espressos while I inspect hundreds of the splashiest wristwatches of 2016.
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At Titan Black, a company that customizes Rolex wristwatches and other brands at its workshop in central London, "we pride ourselves on nothing being off the table," said Luke Waite, the company's founder.
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The Swiss designer spent six decades moonlighting for the 210th century's greatest makers, creating wristwatches known for their slender cases, graceful angles, sporty but elegant integrated bracelets and, as it happens, extreme commercial success.
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The styles range from an ultrathin 1928 platinum pocket watch to streamlined midcentury wristwatches — with alligator straps and early versions of the brand's signature Maltese cross on the dial — to more technical modern designs.
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A court in Denmark issued an injunction against two watchmakers who planned to cut up artist Tal R's painting and use the pieces of canvas as decorative faces for a line of luxury wristwatches.
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The standouts are the three Tribute to Pallweber Edition 150 Years pieces, the first IWC wristwatches to feature the digital hour and minute displays that appeared on the brand's late 19th-century Pallweber pocket watches.
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The virtual assistants that make this possible, like Apple&aposs Siri, Amazon&aposs Alexa and Google&aposs Assistant, can live inside all sorts of products beyond smart speakers — from wristwatches to microwave ovens and eyeglasses.
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And while the designer behind the project, Pavel Golovkin, claims to have industrial design experience at Nooka (a company known for its wild wristwatches), this appears to be his first attempt at making his own hardware.
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Suzanne Demko, who lives in Silver Spring, Md., and leads clinical teams in rare tumor research at the Food and Drug Administration, paid $7,087 for three well-worn wristwatches, their thin leather bands cracked and fraying.
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He has also teamed up with upscale brands like Breitling and Brioni, which outfit him in €7,000 ($9,000) wristwatches and tailored Italian suits that cost upwards of $6,000 in exchange for his services as a brand spokesperson.
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Apparently, some got their hands on that sweet Olympic swag and immediately peaced out: Volunteers report that numerous would-be co-workers have been no-shows since collecting work outfits and complimentary wristwatches, leaving venues short-staffed.
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The court issued an injunction against owners of the watch brand Kanske, who planned to slice up a painting by Danish artist Tal R and use the canvas pieces as decorative faces for a line of luxury wristwatches.
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About 75 percent of Philippine exports to the United States already enter the American market duty-free, but Manila wants to gain market access for its garments and textiles, wristwatches and agricultural products, including top export carrageenan and seaweed.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A court in Denmark issued an injunction against two watchmakers who planned to cut up an artist's painting and use the pieces of canvas as decorative faces for a line of luxury wristwatches.
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They searched a home in Los Angeles County and found wads of cash; "receipts for Rolex wristwatches"; "many pairs of expensive men's cowboy boots in exotic hides"; and ammunition for multiple guns, including more than 100 rounds for an AK-47.
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Demand is growing for innovative, high-fashion jewelry, wristwatches and other wearables that can send alerts and notify emergency contacts with your GPS location and can track hydration, along with other functions, such as measuring glucose levels and blood pressure.
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And Mr. Weill arranged for Breguet, whose $23,600 wristwatches he wears, to become the official timepiece of a concert hall named after the Weills at nearby Sonoma State University, a project he helped finish with a $12 million donation in 2011.
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Given his digital pedigree, it may seem odd that Mr. Pettis, who left MakerBot in 2014, decided to stake his latest company on a technology that last seemed cutting edge around the time Isaac Newton was ducking apples: mechanical wristwatches.
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" So, on a boozy whim, Barry undertakes that most iconic of American responses: He lights out for the territories, in this case boarding a Greyhound bus with a rollerboard suitcase containing six precious wristwatches, "the implements of his true desire.
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Gomelsky is the brainchild of Tom Kartsotis, founder of Shinola, the 3-year-old Detroit-based lifestyle brand best known for making wristwatches, bicycles, leather goods and, as of this fall, high-end turntables imbued with an all-American style.
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Just about every guest is drawn to the 22019-foot-long table at the center of the room, where many of the collectors pulled timepieces from cases and piled them haphazardly onto the table until it was covered in hundreds of rare wristwatches.
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Images of the watch popped up all over social media that night, even though most Japanese buyers still gravitate to wristwatches by Rolex, Omega and Cartier, according to a 2016 consumer awareness survey conducted by the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry.
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Ballfinger is a German-based design group best known for its wristwatches and desk lamps, but at the Norddeutsche Hifi-Tage 2017 audio show, the company showed off a pair of analog audio products that should make any serious audio gear fan sick with envy.
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Swiss watchmakers Winwatch and Montfort, for example, both recently showed traditional wristwatches with the CCP chip embedded, and will be implementing the chips into their watches — adding a payment capability you can find on a smartwatch like the Apple Watch to a range of non-smartwatches.
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During most of its history, Ulysse Nardin was best known as an old-fashioned maker of nautically inspired timepieces (even after it was reinvigorated in the 1980s by the Swiss businessman Rolf Schnyder and the watchmaking wunderkind Ludwig Oechslin, who together created a trilogy of widely praised astronomical wristwatches).
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Misfit's new activity tracker Ray will last for more than six months on three button cell batteries, but that's right in line with Misfit's battery life claims for its Shine tracker, too; Misfit uses the same batteries that have been powering simple wristwatches, calculators, and hearing aids for years.
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LG: I am gonna fundamentally disagree with you about it should have had LTE the first time, only because the LTE wristwatches — LTE smartwatches — that we reviewed before, generally, something suffers because you added the LTE, the cellular modem, and it's either style or battery life or both.
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In 2015, China deployed drones carrying radio scanners to catch students who were using electronic devices to cheat, while some universities in Australia and New Zealand have banned wristwatches, especially smart watches, from exam rooms after discovering that some students were using them to go online and cheat.
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By the time of its 2012 sale, Rose had already formed and sold his own startup incubator, Milk, to Google in an apparent acqui-hire, and was working for its venture arm, now called GV. Rose later started another incubator, North Technologies, creating a news aggregation app focused on wristwatches that he merged with Hodinkee.
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Hong Kong, traditionally the largest buyer of Swiss wristwatches, dropped a massive 32 percent year-on -year in its purchases and is now placed second to the U.S. However sales in the United States were also in line with the softer trend, recording 178 million Swiss francs of sales, a fall of 14.7 percent.
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In "The Things They Carried," Tim O'Brien tells the interrelated stories of men from a single platoon and the things they took to war, down to the smallest details: can openers, pocketknives, wristwatches, mosquito repellent, chewing gum, cigarettes, salt tablets, Kool-Aid, matches, sewing kits, C rations, along with weapons — and of course grief.
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Known for its uninterrupted 21920-year history of producing mostly men's watches of extreme precision and style — from the coveted perpetual calendar chronograph wristwatches of the mid-133th century to its sporty 213 status symbol, the Nautilus — Patek Philippe tops the mechanical watchmaking pyramid with an annual production of 21969,276 timepieces and an estimated $1.3 billion in sales.
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Opening at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, ''Malick Sidibé: Mali Twist'' features more than 125 never-before-seen images, to be displayed alongside his iconic shots of sub-Saharan hipsters showing off their bell-bottoms, wristwatches, radios and James Brown records, and couples dancing barefoot, their heads nearly touching, to music we can no longer hear.
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In the U.S. alone, a watch is purchased every five seconds on eBay, the company notes, "eBay has the largest selection of luxury goods – from rare and designer handbags to fine wristwatches – and we know this community wants an added layer of trust and confidence when buying in these categories," said James Hendy, Senior Director of eBay Authenticate, in a statement about the launch.
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