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Personal timepiece
A watch is a timepiece carried or worn by a person. It is designed to maintain a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities. A wristwatch is worn around the wrist, attached by a watch strap or another type of bracelet, including metal bands or leather straps. A pocket watch is carried in a pocket, often attached to a chain. A stopwatch is a type of watch that measures intervals of time. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: WatchA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Global Mangrove Extent Change 1996–2020: Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Antique Collectors' Club edition of Old clocks and watches & their makersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Long-term outcomes of clinical complete responders after neoadjuvant treatment for rectal cancer in the International Watch & Wait Database (IWWD): an international multicentre registry studyCited 1,094 times
- Go sideways: History of watchesA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Quartz crisisA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A portable or wearable timepiece.
Noun The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
Noun A particular time period when guarding is kept.
Noun A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Long-term outcomes of clinical complete responders after neoadjuvant treatment for rectal cancer in the International Watch & Wait Database (IWWD): an international multicentre registry study
The WFDEI meteorological forcing data set: WATCH Forcing Data methodology applied to ERA‐Interim reanalysis data
Occurrence and removal of organic micropollutants: An overview of the watch list of EU Decision 2015/495
Trust in Management and Performance: Who Minds the Shop While the Employees Watch the Boss?
When consumers doubt, Watch out! The role of CSR skepticism
What is eSports and why do people watch it?
Creation of the WATCH Forcing Data and Its Use to Assess Global and Regional Reference Crop Evaporation over Land during the Twentieth Century
Watch-and-wait approach versus surgical resection after chemoradiotherapy for patients with rectal cancer (the OnCoRe project): a propensity-score matched cohort analysis
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
The Antique Collectors' Club edition of Old clocks and watches & their makersFrederick James Britten, Antique Collectors' Club · 1881
LongitudeDava Sobel, William J. H. Andrewes · 1995
Furniture Treasury (2 Volumes in 1)Wallace Nutting · 1928
The House with a Clock in Its WallsJohn Bellairs · 1973
Thief of TimeTerry Pratchett · 2001
ClockworkPhilip Pullman · 1996
Bird neighborsNeltje Blanchan · 1898
The artificial clock-makerWilliam Derham · 1696
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🔗 Related topics
- History of watches The history of watches began in 16th-century Europe, where watches evolved from portable spring-driven clocks, which first appeared in the 15th century…
- Quartz crisis The quartz crisis (Switzerland) or quartz revolution (United States, Japan, and other countries) was the upheaval in the watchmaking industry caused by…
- Quartz clock Quartz clocks and quartz watches are timepieces that use an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time. The crystal oscillator, controlled…
- Seiko Seiko Group Corporation (セイコーグループ株式会社, Seikō Gurūpu kabushiki gaisha), commonly known as Seiko (/ˈseɪkoʊ/ SAY-koh, Japanese: [seːkoː]), is a Japanese maker…
- Electric watch In horology, the term electric watch is used for the first-generation electrically-powered wristwatches which were first publicly displayed by both Elgin…
- Complication (horology) In horology, a complication is any feature of a timepiece beyond the display of hours, minutes and seconds. A timepiece indicating only hours, minutes…
- Pocket watch A pocket watch is a watch that is made to be carried in a pocket, as opposed to a wristwatch, which is strapped to the wrist. They were the most common…
- Movement (clockwork) In horology, a movement, also known as a caliber or calibre (British English), is the mechanism of a watch or timepiece, as opposed to the case, which…