WATCH GLOSSARY

What are the parts of a watch?

We list here a Glossary that will give you a list of what is relevant to a watch.

A

  • A/H Or Alterations / Alternance Per Hour
  • Altimeter
  • Amplitude
  • Ana-Digi
  • Analog
  • Anchor Escapement
  • Anglage
  • Annual Calendar
  • Antimagnetic
  • Applied Indices (Appliqué Indices)
  • Art Deco
  • Automatic Movement
  • Automatic Winding
  • Aperture

B

  • Balance
  • Balance Spring
  • Balance Wheel
  • Beat
  • Bezel
  • Bi-Directional Rotating Bezel
  • Breguet Overcoil Hairspring
  • Bridge

C

  • Cabochon
  • Caliber
  • Case
  • Center, Or Sweep Seconds Hand
  • Chapter Ring
  • Chronograph
  • Chronometer
  • Column Wheel
  • Complication
  • Cosc (Or C.O.S.C.)
  • Crown
  • Crystal
  • Cyclops

D

  • Day-Date
  • Day/Night Indicator
  • Deployant Buckle
  • Dial
  • Digital

E

  • Ébauche
  • Eight-Day Movement
  • Escapement
  • Eta
  • Exhibition Case Back

F

  • Fine Adjustment
  • Flyback Chronograph
  • Frequency

G

  • Gasket
  • Geneva Seal
  • Geneva Stripes
  • Geneva Waves
  • Gmt
  • Grand Sonnerie
  • Guilloché

H

  • Hack, Hacking Seconds
  • Hairspring / Balance Spring
  • Hallmark
  • Hand-Wound Movement
  • Helium Escape Valve
  • Hertz Or Hz
  • Horology
  • Hour Markers
  • Hunter Pocket Watch

I

  • Incabloc
  • Indices

J

  • Jewels

K

  • Karat

L

  • Lcd
  • Led
  • Lepine Watch
  • Lever Escapement
  • Ligne
  • Limited-Edition Watch
  • Lugs
  • Luminescence

M

  • Magnetisim
  • Mainplate
  • Mainspring
  • Manual-Wind Movement
  • Manufacture
  • Mechanical Watch
  • Micro-Rotor
  • Minute Repeater
  • Moon-Phase Display
  • Motion Work
  • Movement

O

  • Oscillation

P

  • Pallet
  • Perlage
  • Perpetual Calendar
  • Plate
  • Power Reserve
  • Power-Reserve Indicator
  • Pusher
  • Pvd

Q

  • Quartz Watch
  • Quick-Set / Quick-Date

R

  • Radio-Controlled
  • Rattrapante
  • Regulation / Adjustment
  • Rehaut
  • Repeater
  • Retrograde Display
  • Rider Tabs
  • Rotor

S

  • Screw Back
  • Screw-Down Crown
  • Self-Compensating Hairspring
  • Shock Absorption
  • Shock Resistance
  • Skeletonized Movement
  • Slide Rule
  • Small Seconds Dial
  • Sonnerie
  • Spring Bar
  • Standard Time
  • Stem
  • Stop-Seconds Function
  • Strap
  • Subsidiary Dial
  • Sweeping Seconds Hand
  • Swiss Made

T

  • Tang Buckle
  • Tachymeter (Tachometer)
  • Time Zones
  • Tongue
  • Tonneau Watch
  • Tourbillon
  • Triple Date
  • Tritium

U

  • Uni-Directional Rotating Bezel

V

  • Vibrations, Vph

W

  • Water-Resistant
  • Wheel Train / Going Train
  • Winding
  • World Time Watch

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