karruseln.
/karuːˈsɛl/ Horology.
(See quot. 1962.)
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Breguet spring1881
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brass edge1884
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karrusel1893
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jewel bearing1954
1893 B. Bonniksen Brit. Patent 21,421/1892 1 The drawing accompanying this following description, is an illustration of what I have named a position-equalizing-karrusel (hereinafter termed ‘karrusel’; the word ‘karrusel’ means the same as a ‘roundabout’) its purpose is to make the balance of..any..portable timepiece, turn round itself in any given time.
1929 G. H. Bailie Watches xix. 347 A different type of tourbillon was invented by Bonniksen of Coventry in 1892 and called by him a Karussell.
1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 98 Karrusel, arrangement similar to the tourbillon in which the escapement revolves every 52½ minutes.
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