Hampden Pocket Watch
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Pocket watch - A pocket watch (or pocketwatch) is a strapless personal timepiece that is carried in a pocket. The display is traditionally analog.
Dollar watch - A dollar watch was a pocket watch that sold for about one dollar.
Robert Hampden, 1st Viscount Hampden - Robert Trevor, 4th Baron Trevor and 1st Viscount Hampden (1706 - 1783), represented his country at the Hague from 1739 to 1746, during which time he maintained a regular correspondence with Horace Walpole. He took the additional name of Hampden in 1754, on succeeding to the estates of that family, and in 1776, twelve years after he had become Baron Trevor, he was created Viscount Hampden.
Automatic watch - An automatic watch (also called a self-winding watch) is a mechanical watch, typically with a balance wheel escapement, whose mainspring is wound by the motion of the wearer's arm, instead of having to be wound manually every day. Whereas a quartz watch is powered by electricity, a mechanical ...
