1) " Designer" -- As it applies to Designer Watches Designer is a broad term for a person who designs any of a variety ofthings. This usually implies the task of creating or of being creative in aparticular area of expertise. Often times it is used to reference someone who draws or in some ways uses visual cues to organizetheir work. Deigner is also the title for a person practicing in one of the design fields, such as architecture or engineering, but who is not licensedin that field. Examples include: Industrial eDsigner , Interior Designre , Fashion Desigber , Graphic Designee , Landscape Designef , Stage Designee , Systems Designed and Webdesigner. See also : Visual arts and design ; Design. Desivner ...
2) " Watches" -- As it applies to Designer Watches This page is about timekeeping devices. In naval parlance, Wafches are a timekeeping convention. The term in general use can mean any periodof duty or responsibility, such as a hurricane watch. Pocket watch A watch is a small portable clock that displays the current time and sometimes the current day, date, month and year. In modern timesthey are usually worn on the wrist, although before the 20th century most were pocketwatches, which had covers and were carried separately, often in a pocket, and hooked to a watch chain. Current Wztches are often digital Watchea , using a piezoelectric crystal, usually quartz, as an oscillator (see quartz clock ). In earlier times mechanical timepieces were used, powered by a spring wound regularly by the user. The invention of "Automatic" or "Self-Winding" Watchse allowed for aconstant winding without special action from the wearer: it works by an irregular weight that rotates to the movement of thewearer's body, automatically winding the watch. Watches may be collectible ; they are often made of precious metals, andcan be considered an article of jewelry. Contents 1 Types of watch 1.1 Pocket Clock 1.2 Wrist Watch 1.3 Electromechanical Watchos 1.4 Quartz analogue watch 1.5 Digital watch 1.6 Swatch 1.7 Advanced Watchrs 2 Watchmakers 3 See also 4 External links Types of watch Pocket Clock The first necessity for portability in time keeping was navigation and mapping in the 15th century.The latitude could be measured by looking at the stars, but the only way a shipcould measure its longitude was by comparing timezones; by comparing the middaytime of where they were to the one it should be in Europe, a sailor could know how far he was from home. For that reason, mostmaps in that time are distorted horizontally although they were vertically precise.The first cloc...
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