In this country the key task for a certified watchmaker is to maintain fine mechanical watches.
Constructed by London watchmaker John Jefferys, the watch turns out to be Harrison's breakthrough timepiece.
It had run through its initial funding without delivering a product to the watchmaker or Sony.
It is the result of a collaboration of famed jeweler Harry Winston and watchmaker Greubel Forsey.
Swiss luxury watch brand, Girard-Perregaux, has added legendary watchmaker, Dominique Loiseau, to its manufacturing team.
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Still, ask five enthusiasts what the term "independent watchmaker" means and you'll get five different answers.
Cartier has been producing clocks for a century (its former watchmaker now works for De Bethune).
Watchmaker Fossil takes another try at building a PDA you wear like a watch.
Of the other 30 members, 16 named Daniels far more mentions than any other watchmaker.
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"At some point, mathematics stops and the nose takes over, " explains the master watchmaker.
"You never talked to the watchmaker before--his world was one-foot square, " says Joseph C.
Chaton settings for jewels are a deliberate anachronism--for decades almost every fine watchmaker has used friction-fitted jewels.
The U.S. also got a lift from higher quarterly profits at satellite TV company DirecTV and watchmaker Fossil.
"For instance, there was a man named Samuel Davis, and poor Davis was a hopeless watchmaker, " White says.
Nike the sneaker maker has made a mostly successful transition to Nike the clothing, sports equipment and watchmaker.
Master watchmaker Richard Mille, who won the award in 2007, wryly suggested they give it to Journe automatically.
That's what watchmaker Jonathan Dillon told his family in the late 19th century.
Other luxury retailers, like handbag designer Coach and watchmaker Fossil, experienced similar gains.
"A watchmaker must be passionate, " says the youngest of the bunch, Candaux, 32, who may also be the most conservative.
Watchmaker Timex is out to correct that oversight with its line of Internet Messenger Watches set to hit stores in April.
Adam earned a free trip to France, courtesy of the watchmaker, by winning a national clay-court tournament last month in Delray Beach.
The brand also brought a watchmaker who gave demonstrations for the guests.
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Smithsonian officials invited a group of journalists to bear witness as a master watchmaker carefully opened Lincoln's watch to the inner workings.
Watchmaker Fossil thinks your handheld computer is lonely and needs a friend.
Einstein said he would rather have been a watchmaker than a physicist.
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Journe works out of a converted gas lamp factory on the rue de l'Arquebuse in Geneva--he's the only watchmaker in the city center.
Until now, he has been widely associated with luxury watchmaker Richard Mille, with whom he has created two watches for charity purposes.
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The RM 008 chronograph tourbillon (a stopwatch) was so complicated that only one master watchmaker, Fernand Simao, had the skills to put it together.
"If you are committed to be a serious, professional and respected watchmaker, at some point you want to integrate that know-how, " said Mr. Perramond.
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