How does a Watch work? To help make sense of it all, we created a detailed video about How A Watch Works and for a more complete overview we also maintain the below glossary to help with explaining the little details that make it all tick:
WATCH MOVEMENT PARTS:
- Arbor
- Balance Bridge
- Balance Cock
- Balance Wheel
- Barrel
- Barrel Bridge
- Bridges
- Caliber
- Chaton
- Click
- Co-Axial Escapement
- Crown
- Crown Wheel
- Escape Wheel
- Escapement
- Fusée and Chain
- Going Train
- Hairspring
- Jewel
- Keyless Works
- Main Plate
- Mainspring
- Motion Works
- Pallet Fork
- Pallet Jewels
- Pinion
- Power Reserve
- Quartz Crystal
- Ratchet Wheel
- Réserve de marche
- Second Wheel
- Setting Lever
- Spring Drive
- Train Wheel Bridge
DECORATIVE TECHNIQUES:
- Anglage
- Black Polish
- Blued Screws
- Côtes de Genève
- Geneva Striping
- German Silver
- Glashütte Ribbing
- Guilloche
- Maillechort
- Mirror Polish
- Perlage
- Skeletonizing
- Zaratsu Polishing
WATCH COMPLICATIONS:
- Annual Calendar
- Bi-Compax
- Chronograph
- Chronometer
- Dead Seconds
- Equation of Time
- Flyback Chronograph
- Flying Tourbillon
- GMT
- Hacking Seconds
- Minute Repeater
- Moonphase
- Perpetual Calendar
- Pulsometer
- Rattrapante
- Regulator
- Sonnerie
- Split-Seconds Chronograph
- Tachymeter
- Tourbillon
- Tri-Compax
- World Time Complication
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