Watches 101 – Mini Dictionary
Interested in watches but have no idea what some words mean? Learn a new word or two using our mini dictionary below – In alphabetical order. It’s our duty to bring love and passion to your wrist (in this instance, your brain too).
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A: Amplitude | Abraham Louis Breguet
B: Balance Wheel | Balance Spring | Bridges | Barrel | Beat Error | Bezel | Bracelet | Backlash
C: Click | Crown | Center Wheel | Compensating Balance | Crown Wheel | Cannon Pinion | Chronograph | Calendar | Center Seconds | Circular Graining | CNC | Chronometer | Crystal | COSC
D: Detent Escapement | Dual Time | Dead Seconds | DRIE | Dial | Deployant Buckle | Diver’s Watch
E: Escapement | Endshake | Escape Wheel | Equation of Time | Electroplating
F: Fourth Wheel | Frequency | Fly Back Chronograph | Foudroyante | Finishing
G: Gear Train | Grande Sonnerie
H: Hairspring | Hands | Hack Feature | Hans Wilsdorf
I: Isochonism
L: Lever Escapement | LIGA
M: Mainspring | Mainplate | Motion Works | Movement | Moon Phase | Minute Repeater | Milling | Marine Chronometer
P: Pallet Fork | Power Reserve | Perpetual Calendar | Pulsometer | Polishing | Perlage
R: Rotor | Ratchet Wheel | Rate | Repeater | Riveting
S: Screw | Sideshake | Split Seconds Chronograph | Straight Graining
T: Third Wheel | Tachymeter | Telemeter | Turning | Tempering
W: Wheels | Winding Stem | World Timer
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