| He introduced one of the most famous metaphors in the philosophy of science, the image of the watchmaker. |
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| Of Armenian descent, he is a watchmaker, pursuing a craft for which the people of the old country are well known. |
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| Vince said it had taken a watchmaker 18 months to chisel the pattern out of a cardboard-thin slice of rare earth magnet. |
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| The invention of the process is attributed to Jakob Schweizer, a watchmaker based in the region to make watches. |
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| The best way for a reasonably sized company to offer its clientele the very essence of the dream of a watchmaker ably assisted by his team! |
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| The work of agriculturist, traveling salesman and entertainer of dances had to complete the benefits obtained by the work of watchmaker. |
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| In addition to the watchmaker office, it exerted of small agriculturist, also of traveling salesman of rosaries and medals. |
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| Companies from Clariant, a chemicals group, to Swatch, a watchmaker, have blamed disappointing profits on the currency. |
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| A qualified Omega watchmaker can adjust the precision of a watch to within the Omega tolerances. |
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| Swiss luxury watchmaker Omega is a company of the Swatch Group, the world's largest watchmaker. |
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| If the rate is not satisfactory, the watch is returned to the watchmaker for the necessary corrections. |
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| No other watchmaker pays such close attention to the sophistication and complexity of the mechanisms found in horology today. |
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| However, this approach led the watchmaker to rethink the size and form of each of the movement's parts. |
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| In 1845, the Frenchman Robert-Houdin, an ingenious watchmaker and scientist, opened his Théâtre des Soirées Fantastiques. |
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| While not all 86 million maintain positions of governance or public service, the Party's machinery runs on watchmaker precision. |
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| Paley goes on to compare the watch to an eye, arguing that if a watch implies a watchmaker, then an eye implies an eye-maker. |
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| He apprenticed with his father, a watchmaker, before moving to Switzerland, to work as a journeyman in Basel, and then to Neuchatel to study watchmaking. |
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| For a watch to be unique, the watchmaker should design and manufacture most of the different parts rather than simply source components from another supplier. |
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| With the extraordinary skeletonized version of the Central Tourbillon, the watchmaker has sawn away all non-essential material from the plates and bridges, then bevelled their edges. |
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| Dutch watchmaker Christaan van der Klauuw also manufactures astrolabe watches today. |
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| From the start of his career through to the present day, Vincent Calabrese has pursued a resolutely humanistic path in which moral rectitude and truth are the keynotes of his approach as a watchmaker seeking knowledge. |
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| The collection Marine of the brand was inspirited at the beginning by the watches created for the Royal French Marina, for which Breguet worked as the watchmaker. |
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| The catamaran, a floating laboratory topped with solar panels, is ground-breaking, powerful and reliable, making it the ideal partner for an innovative watchmaker. |
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| What is fascinating in the remontoir principle is that each watchmaker who has set out to build one has his own personal interpretation: only the basic idea remains the same. |
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| In the late 18th century Abraham-Louis Breguet, a legendary Franco-Swiss watchmaker, tried to combat this by enclosing the entire balance-wheel and escapement mechanism in a rotating cage an invention known as a tourbillon. |
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| As well as the finely crafted mechanical timepieces, such as the one currently on my wrist, master watchmaker Gilbert O Gudjonsson manufactures a mean espresso. |
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| When he was barely 16 years old he presented a piece that attracted great attention at the competition of the Paris Chamber of Watchmakers, and by the age of 20 he was an approved watchmaker. |
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| Using her job as a watchmaker in her father's shop as a cover, Corrie built contacts with resistance workers, who assisted her in procuring ration books and building a hiding place in the family home. |
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| Pala Jewellers benefits from a qualified gemmologist and watchmaker, and the level of knowledge in most fields is second-to-none. |
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| Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker in that reproduction, mutation, and selection are unguided by any designer. |
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| Newton's mechanical physics invited the Enlightenment metaphysic of the remote Watchmaker God who just wound up the universe and let it go. |
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| Tech Prize for Best Television Documentary Science Programme of the Year for his work on the BBC's Horizon episode The Blind Watchmaker. |
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| In 1987, Dawkins received a Royal Society of Literature award and a Los Angeles Times Literary Prize for his book The Blind Watchmaker. |
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