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He is drawn as a young, cheerful man wearing a trench-coat and glancing at hispocket-watch.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.During the fight he was struck in the chest by shrapnel but was saved by hispocketwatchwhich absorbed the blow.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He painstakingly dissected apocketwatch, his neighbor's car, and whatever else that struck his fancy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One of the muggers takes the only thing the man hadapocketwatchthat starts to glow and burns the hand of the mugger.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He wakes up in a copse near the cottage, in daylight, to find out from hispocketwatchthat it is half-past-twelve in the afternoon.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One thousand, seven hundred and sixty-one packages ofpocketwatchspares were offered.
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There a whippet angel presents him his life watch - apocketwatchrepresenting his lifespan.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.H4 looked much like a large five-inch (12 cm) diameterpocketwatch.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He carried a largepocketwatchinside of him, which would often set off an alarm whenever something was about to happen.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A stoppedpocketwatchfound in the harbour in 1969 indicated that it occurred around 11:43 a.m.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A clue might lie in the gold hunter, a popularpocketwatch, owned by the deceased gentleman.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The movements were three-quarter plate, slow train, and about the diameter of the modern 16-sizepocketwatch.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The timer is fashioned after an old-timepocketwatchclock face.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He turns back hispocketwatchby fifteen minutes and leaves by carriage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He attached hispocketwatchto his wrist with a piece of string.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He is credited with inventing several design improvements to thepocketwatchand watch movement.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Shallow glass evaporating dishes are commonly termed watch glasses, since they resemble the front window of apocketwatch.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He appears to have modeled his clock from a borrowedpocketwatchby carving each piece to scale.
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