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https://www.cortinawatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Longines_Equestrian-Pocket-Watch-Collection_Cortina-Watch-featured-image.webp1200800History is replete with examples of human inventions that sought to measure time. Apart from wristwatches that we are so familiar with today, what were some of the devices that laid the foundation of modern chronometry?