Sentence examples for watch commissioned from inspiring English sources
The phrase "watch commissioned" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context where someone is referring to a watch that has been specially ordered or created, but it is not a common expression. Example: "The artist created a unique timepiece for the exhibition, a watch commissioned by a private collector."
They point to the health care report Wal-Mart Watch commissioned from Mr. Thorpe, which was handed over to Wal-Mart this year, rather than published to embarrass Wal-Mart as it might have been in the past.
While a watch commissioned through Ateliers Cabinotiers carries a minimum premium of 50 percent compared with similar models in the watchmaker's collection, for pieces with simple aesthetic customizations, the sky is very much the limit for custom models equipped with brand new calibers, said Hugues de Pins, president of Vacheron Constantin North America.
When he painted a picture which we know as The Night Watch, commissioned by the officers of the City Guard, only six of the 16 figures of 'rank and position' claimed, reluctantly, that their heads resembled them, and yet he was being paid 100/200 guilders per head.
When completed in 1933 after three years of design and five years of construction, the gold pocket watch commissioned by banker Henry Graves Jr. provided an accurate picture of the nighttime sky over New York, as well as more than 20 other types of information.
His was an appetite not easily satisfied: "The more watches he commissioned, the more obsessed he became".
For Wearing-Watching, a commissioned art fair project for Frieze New York 2015, she handed out 800 ponchos.
One of the world's foremost watch enamelists, the reclusive Suzanne Rohr, who has worked exclusively for Patek Philippe since 1967, completes approximately one commissioned pocket watch a year.
The partnership spawned a club of loyal collectors, nicknamed the "Gondolo Gang," as well as a specially commissioned pocket watch, the Chronometro Gondolo, which today lends its name to the Gondolo collection of wristwatches.
The death of Rembrandt's wife, Saskia, and the presumed rejection of the Night Watch by those who commissioned it were long supposed to be the most important events leading to the presumed change in Rembrandt's life after 1642.
Carell researched du Pont extensively, reading reams of material about the Pennsylvania dynasty of industrial tycoons and watching the documentaries they commissioned about themselves.
Her work adorns public and private collections around the world, and admirers have been able to come and watch Mahlangu as she creates commissioned paintings.
