The best high-end watches contain hand-assembled and decorated movements which take copious amounts of time to complete.

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Around five million poppies and 8, 000 wreaths are hand-assembled by 40 veterans with disabilities every year at Lady Haig's Poppy Factory in Edinburgh.

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The computer was hand-assembled by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who, according to legend, financed the device's construction by selling his HP-65 calculator (co-founder Steve Jobs also sold his VW campervan).

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On the other hand, the Switzerland-assembled TL700 smartphone is very much the same as before: still Android Gingerbread, 3.7-inch 800 x 480 display with sapphire screen, 0.3- and five-megapixel cameras, 1, 400mAh battery, 316L fine stainless steel body and genuine leather back.

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Scott, on the other hand, assembled his team capriciously, from old-friends, casual acquaintances, and hangers-on.

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It was assembled featuring the classic V12 engine, a de Dion rear axle and right-hand drive, and it has pontoon-fender coachwork done by Scaglietti.

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