How To Use Timepiece In A Sentence
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The father gave the son a watch; a magnificent timepiece, a one-off, worth upwards of £30,000.
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Given the Wilsons' obsession with turning back the clock, Steve's passion for collecting and re-creating vintage timepieces seems appropriate.
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And although street clocks went out of vogue in the 1920s, Verdin resuscitated the analog timepieces in the 1980s for small towns undergoing Main Street revivals.
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But one remarkable timepiece in the Clockmakers 'possession is easily overlooked amid the treasures comprising the world's oldest and finest horology museum.
Big Time: The British Pocket Watch
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He traveled the colonies, from New York to Maryland, cleaning timepieces, working as a tinsmith, and barely keeping beyond the reach of his creditors.
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The upper shelf contains a celestial globe, and several extremely specialized scientific instruments: quadrants, sundials, and a torquetum (a timepiece and navigational aid).
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Quartz timepieces are very accurate, to a minute or two per year.
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But despite the thrills of modern technology, today the vogue for antique timepieces is big business, with collectors spending serious money on complex, hand-crafted gems.
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The direction of each transect was randomly chosen using the second-hand on a timepiece.
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Want the look of a digital watch with the cachet of a classical timepiece?
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This classic timepiece is adorned with 32 baguette diamonds on the case and 232 on the bracelet - all Top Wesselton stones and all hand set.
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A clockmaker had prepared plans for a timepiece for one of the kings of France.
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The Swiss watchmaking legend draws from its active engagement in the world of sports to create the most accurate measuring instruments and sports-inspired timepieces ever made.
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You can also select ‘watch faces’ to change the look of your timepiece.
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One was a clockmaker years ahead of his time - a pioneer who did the impossible and tamed the timepiece, transforming exploration and unravelling the riddle of safe navigation.
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His house was something of a clock clinic where neighbours would have their timepieces repaired.
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Descended from a long line of watchmakers, he makes a living designing timepieces.
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Seventy-one percent of practitioners preferred to use personal timepieces (e.g. wristwatches) for routine care.
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This elegant timepiece has 12 white diamonds to mark the hours and a stunning onyx cabochon to decorate the crown, with a matching black sunburst dial and luxurious black stingray strap.
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Some chairman get a gold timepiece for clocking up 50 years with the same company.
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Soft leather and fine wood veneers abound and the centrally mounted clock is more reminiscent of a luxury gentleman's watch than a mere timepiece.
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Shoppers will no longer be stuck if they forget their watches after the traditional timepiece was erected in the High Street.
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Descended from a long line of watchmakers, he makes a living designing timepieces.
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Timepieces tracked included staff wristwatches and beepers, wall clocks, bedside and central patient monitors, workstation computers, and clocks on videocassette recorders.
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What exactly is it that our timepieces measure?
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Use some pebbles to make a clock Transform a collection of stones from the beach into a unique timepiece.
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But the White House says Bush put the timepiece in a pocket returning safely home.
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There may be no other director in Hollywood who embodies the clockwork reliability of a fine timepiece more than Ron Howard.
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Descended from a long line of watchmakers, he makes a living designing timepieces.
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Take a ride in the (fully restored) antique elevator and synchronise your watch with the mother of all timepieces.
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It's more like clock-a-block for timepiece collector and repairer, Sandra Pember.
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Like the ultra-thin timepieces that are all the rage, they test the horologist.
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It has the clockwork reliability of a fine timepiece.
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When no longer captivated by what's on stage, the mind drifts involuntarily and temptation inevitably sets in to peek at your timepiece.
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Like the ultra-thin timepieces that are all the rage, they test the horologist.
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However, the company quickly retracted its statement, claiming instead that the timepieces would go on sale that very month.
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Each jar is labeled'sELF - ASSEMBLING CLOCK " and holds the jumbled parts of a timepiece.
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This elegant timepiece has 12 white diamonds to mark the hours and a stunning onyx cabochon to decorate the crown, with a matching black sunburst dial and crocodile effect strap.
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He proceeds to explain the technical intricacies of making a timepiece when you innocuously ask him what the time is.
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Today we calibrate our watches with atomic clocks, but back then there was no timepiece more reliable than the rotating Earth itself.
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A Swiss watchmaker has come up with a timepiece that costs more than most people's houses.
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Mary Patterson expresses concern [IX, 2] that digital timepieces could result in the loss of the terms clockwise and anticlockwise (counterclockwise in the States).
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The single most distinctive visual element of any horologe or timepiece is its face.
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One of the rooms in the Palazzo Vecchio, so called because the famous cosmographical timepiece, made about 1484 for Lorenzo de Medici by Lorenzo della Volpaia, stood there.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
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For the above reasons and in your own interest, you are invited to acquire only genuine Longines timepieces –available exclusively from a legitimate Longines official retailer. Thank you.
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A specialized supplier of special timepiece tools an mechanical and quartz movements from Japan and Switzerland.
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Swipe these sleek timepieces at a reader, and the tab is automatically charged to your credit card.
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She had downloaded his file onto her watch before leaving, which doubled not only as a timepiece but also a data organizer.
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Most prefer personal timepieces (e.g. wristwatches) for documentation of routine care interventions.
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One of the rooms in the Palazzo Vecchio, so called because the famous cosmographical timepiece, made about 1484 for Lorenzo de Medici by Lorenzo della Volpaia, stood there.
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He placed his timepiece on the nightstand, then loosened his breeks and let them fall.
Aching for Always
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Quartz timepieces are very accurate, to a minute or two per year.
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A timepiece of striated Connemara marble, stopped at the hour of 4.46 a.m. on the 21 March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf tree of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of
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The second hand rotates and the clock ticks in this high-energy version of a traditional timepiece.
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Over thousands of years, the accuracy of maps didn't improve significantly faster than the accuracy of primitive timepieces such as the sundial or water clock.
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The Atlanta Games will boast an "official" scouring pad and timepiece, two official game shows, and three official vehicles: a family car, an import minivan and a luxury sedan.
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I would have thread fewfew piggeries are greener this timepiece of daylight fweff — — — — - she prays
The Imbecilic Utterances (or Why is every man's burden the heaviest?)
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Until the 1920s, the most accurate timepieces depended on the regular swing of a pendulum.
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The audio, which hijacks your cardiac tempo as only ominous electronica amped up in the dark can do, mixes recordings of two timepieces of erstwhile global authority.
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Some time in the fifteenth century, clockmakers started to use tightly coiled blades of metal - springs - to power their timepieces, instead of gravity.
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This discovery led to the invention of the pendulum and various timepieces such as the Grandfather clock, but at the time Galileo could not explain it.
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Hinting at the timepiece's capacity for deadly accuracy, he adds: ‘It was twenty-four minutes past midnight.’
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Next to the pocketwatch was the note that had accompanied the timepiece.
The Burning Wire
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Southern masters and overseers used timepieces to ensure that tasks were completed in a timely fashion and that slaves were not malingering.
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Until the 1920s, the most accurate timepieces depended on the regular swing of a pendulum.
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Simon is credited with inventing several types of clocks, and today his timepieces are highly prized by collectors.
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Soft leather and fine wood veneers abound and the centrally mounted clock is more reminiscent of a luxury gentleman's watch than a mere timepiece.
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A watch is more than just a timepiece the same way a car is more than just a method of transportation.
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Watch: Portable timepiece designed to be worn on the wrist or carried in the pocket.
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This sleek, Swiss-made timepiece uses a pendulum that oscillates at 36,000 vibrations per hour.
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And Mannie of caftan and cowbell fame, dealer in antique timepieces.
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KEEPS the England midfield ticking over like an expensive timepiece.
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Speaking of which, if you do opt to wear your watch, keep your timepiece and bracelet on separate wrists.
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In a lengthy codicil of 1854, Carl Mayer had specified as heirlooms for Mayer Carl his ‘Ancient coins and modern medals in my iron chest’ and his collection of cameos, while his antique timepieces and snuffboxes were to be divided by lot.
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Combining the iconic chain and fusée, drums and vertical tourbillion from the Winch timepiece with a revolutionary new technique, the Sol Invictus is another mechanical wonder for your wrist.
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And Mannie of caftan and cowbell fame, dealer in antique timepieces.
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Besides, if Dedalus was the mainspring of this particular timepiece, the information about Serman would make him nervous.
FLOATING CITY
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He checked his timepiece—the one Royce had given him—then pulled the Glock, done over in dull gray matte and a nonglare finish, invisible in the night.
DEVILS IN EXILE
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For the above reasons and in your own interest, you are invited to acquire only genuine Longines timepieces –available exclusively from a legitimate Longines official retailer. Thank you.
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An example: Watchmaking changed relatively little for more than a century, and timepieces were sold in watch and jewelry shops.
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WHAT do you need to make a superb timepiece?
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