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...years ago, Ho's blood pressure clocked in at 140/90, slightly above normal but not high enough to elicit a pill or much alarm. But when he went to see Dr. Ting Choon Meng, the Singapore general practitioner decided to monitor Ho's blood pressure with a black plastic wristwatch he had designed and named the BPro. The device, worn for 24 hours, revealed a wave pattern showing how fast and hard his heart was beating, as well as worrying patterns in Ho's pressure. Ting put Ho on blood-pressure- lowering medicine...
...around. Says EDB's Yeoh Keat Chuan of the BPro: "It is a revolutionary device. It has significant commercial potential." In spite of the pressure to sell the BPro and reward his shareholders, what matters most to Ting is patients like Ronnie Ho, for whom this modest-looking black wristwatch is already priceless...
...campaign and his hopes. But he warmed noticeably as he engaged in a question and answer session with the crowd of 130 who attended the Chamber of Commerce lunch, stopping only when longtime aide and consigliere Mark Salter, standing at the back of the room, began gesturing at his wristwatch...
...sound a watch makes when wound, Wilsdorf trademarked the name Rolex, which was both easy to pronounce in many languages and short enough to fit on a watch face. Within two years Wilsdorf created the world's first dust- and waterproof timepiece and was awarded the first wristwatch chronometer rating by the School of Horology in Geneva. In 1926 he devised the first airtight, element-proof mariner's watch, which resembled a submarine hatch. According to Rolex lore, Wilsdorf called the new watch the Oyster after having difficulty opening one of the mollusks at a black-tie dinner party...
...Three hours later, forensic police sifted through the Victory Monument bus-stop wreckage for possible bomb components, collecting and photographing a handful of nails, a metal wristwatch band and twisted chunks of metal. After watching the police comb for evidence, German tourist Irina Martin said she was heading back to her hotel instead of going to Bangkok's famous New Year's countdown at the Central World shopping mall complex, as she had originally planned. "I heard rumors from other people that there might be more explosions at midnight," said the kindergarten teacher from Hamburg. "It's not worth going...