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 Translation for 'watch' from English to Dutch
NOUN   a watch | watches
VERB   to watch | watched | watched
watching | watches
SYNO lookout | lookout man | picket | ...
bekijkento watch
iem./iets in de gaten houdento watch sb./sth.
horloge {het}watch
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uitkijkento watch out
voorzichtig zijnto watch out
horloges
herenhorloge {het}
men's watch
lit.F
De Nachtwacht
The Night Watch [Sarah Waters]
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Usage Examples English
  • The SPC produces two separate products listing all counties or equivalent subdivisions (parishes, independent cities, and coastal marine zones) included in the broader watch area: Watch County Lists (WCL), which are produced internally preceding the watch issuance for collaborative use with local NWS offices to outline counties and equivalent subdivisions being proposed for inclusion in the watch, and Watch Outline Update (WOU) messages, a public list of the determined watch subdivisions published upon the initial severe thunderstorm watch issuance.
  • Online Watch Link (OWL) is a commercial web application to manage watch schemes such as Neighbourhood Watch (United Kingdom) and Business Watch and to act as a communications platform to allow watch coordinators and the police to send out messages and high priority alerts to members.
  • A skeleton watch is a mechanical watch in which all of the moving parts are visible through either the front of the watch, the back of the watch or a small cut outlining the dial.
  • In 1874 Gruen filed a patent for a 'safety' pinion that prevented damage to a pocket-watch movement if the mainspring broke.
  • In March 2010, at the Baselworld watch fair and trade show in Switzerland, Seiko previewed a limited edition new version of the watch and related designs of the original Astron watch, commemorating the fortieth anniversary in December 2009 of the debut of the Astron watch.

  • The power reserve indicator displayed on the watch with automatic- winding movement shows how long a watch will function when not worn.
  • In 1999, Seinfeld auctioned a Breitling Chronomat watch as part of the "Famous Faces, Watch Auction For Charity" event in New York City. This watch sold for $11,000.
  • In 1927, P.V.H. Weems collaborated with Longines to produce the first wrist watch, the Weems Avigation watch. The watch was 47 mm in diameter.
  • The Waltham Watch Company and the Elgin Watch Company were both used as early as the 1860s and 1870s as railroad standard watches.
  • He created a watch collection with Formex Watch SA, a Swiss watch manufacturer, in October 2013.

  • Watch components that are given a perlée pattern may include the movement main plate and bridges, the inside of the watch case and the watch-case bottom.
  • 1970: STOWA launches the "smallest alarm clock of the world" at the Hannover watch fair. The watch collection comprises approximately 1,000 different watch models.
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