His personal effects had been removed including a self-winding watch which stopped working at 10:37 p.m on May 26.

A self-winding watch movement has a mechanism which winds the mainspring.

He'd locked himself away; had become as autochthonous as a heartbeat or a self-winding watch.

He looked at his self-winding watch.

In 1948, Eterna advanced self-winding watch technology with the development of the Eterna-matic automatic movement.

Automatic watch (self-winding watch) uses the motion of the wrist and arm to recapture energy.

'Self-winding watches are fitted with devices like these to recharge their batteries so they don't have to be replaced all the time.

Everyday examples include wind-up radios and self-winding watches.

He looked at his self-winding watch, a gift from Meadows when the colonel assumed command of the Razorbacks.

With her passion for fine jewellery and fashion, she was the first person, in 1782, to order his newest invention, a self-winding watch known as a perpétuelle.

Tapping this power source is not a new idea and has been exploited in everyday devices such as wind-up radios and self-winding watches.

The gyro-compass was delayed because precision ball bearings were not available and the self-winding watch because no British watch industry existed in the inventor's time.

When self-winding watches were introduced in the 1950s, several wheels in the automatic winding mechanism were jeweled, increasing the count to 25-27. '

During a party for his son’s fifth birthday in October 1970 Dr Cecil Todes noticed that his self-winding watch had stopped.

The states of unconsciousness these drinking bouts induced provoked one of his editors to describe him as "the only person whose self-winding watch stopped because he didn't move."

Of his rotund physique, for example, he once commented, "My only exercise was winding my watch, but that proved too exhausting, so now I have a self-winding watch."

Inventions: spiral bound books, celluwipes tissues, self-winding watch, photographic radio transmission (forerunner of faximile), iconoscope (forerunner of TV).

UK patent GB218487, Improvements relating to wrist watches, 1923 patent resulting from John Harwood's invention of a practical self-winding watch mechanism.

Hence the appeal of finding a way of extracting power from everyday activities without the user noticing what was going on—rather like an old-fashioned self-winding watch, but on a grander scale.

Following his introduction to the court, Queen Marie-Antoinette developed a fascination for Breguet's unique self-winding watch and Louis XVI of France bought several pieces.

Blancpain also made them under licence in 1928 for sale in France and the Perpetual Self-winding Watch Company for sale in North America.

The "slipping mainspring" device was patented by Adrien Philippe, one of the founders of Patek Philippe, on 16 June 1863, long before self-winding watches.

The 3M machines turn off antitheft detection tape placed in books with electromagnetism, or EM, which can harm audio and video materials, not to mention self-winding watches and credit cards.

In 1780 Abraham-Louis Perrelet of Switzerland created the first pedometer, measuring the steps and distance while walking; it was based on a 1770 mechanism of his to power a self-winding watch.

Sarojini Mahajan, a pupil at St Marks Senior Secondary School in West Delhi, thought up the concept while looking at her mobile phone and the self-winding watch on her wrist.