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- noun Plural form of
horologist .
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Examples
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Every in-house watchmaker's endowed with skills passed down through generations of horologists, and for the sake of continuity each totally unique ticker's made by a single craftsman from start to finish using materials and tools imported from Japan, necessary as all of our tools are busy reading their manga.
Thrillist: Dedegumo: Japanese Watches Made Right Before Your Eyes Thrillist 2010
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To research the circumstances of the theft, Allen spent nearly five years crisscrossing Europe and the Middle East, interviewing detectives, curators, horologists and watch dealers.
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The distance of centers of wheel and pallet will be alike in both cases; also the lockings will be the same distance apart on both pallets; therefore, when horologists, even if they have worldwide reputations, claim that the club tooth has an advantage over the ratchet because it begins the lift with a shorter lever than the latter, it does not make it so.
An Analysis of the Lever Escapement H. R. Playtner
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Skilled horologists use it on account of its _convenience_.
An Analysis of the Lever Escapement H. R. Playtner
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This report is extensively distributed to British and Foreign horologists and instrument-makers.
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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His father, a born fop, a boulevardier by adoption, cultivated habits that seemed to follow the mechanical laws of those clockwork manikins that ingenious horologists contrive for the amusement of children, big and little.
A Son of the Immortals Louis Tracy 1895
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The IPKat thanks the UK's Intellectual Property Office for its excellent service in drawing the attention of businesses, practitioners and beleaguered bloggers to the existence of fresh references to the Court (including this one), and for giving interested parties (brand owners, their enemies, horologists?) a chance to make comments by email here so that the Office can decide whether to take a position on it.
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The Encinitas, CA-based horologists have officially ...
Cool Hunting 2009
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The Encinitas, CA-based horologists have officially ...
Cool Hunting 2009
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When two experienced horologists met to discuss their passion,
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