A TO Z LIST OF WATCHMAKING TERMS

Please find below all the terms covered by this encyclopedia sorted alphabetically.

A

Abrasives – Additive Manufacturing – Adjustment of the heights (division) –  Aluminium – Amplitude – Angles – Anodizing – Antichocs – Annual calendar – Aperture – Applique – Arbor – Assembly – Astronomical indications – Astronomy – Atomic clock – Automatic – Automatic lathe – Automaton – Autonomy – Axis

B

Baguette – Balance poising – Balance spring – Balance wheel – Banking – Barrel – Barrel drum – Bell – Benzine cup – Beryllium – Bevelling – Bezel – Bimetallic – Blade – Blower – Bluing – Boil out – Bow lathe – Boxwood – Bracelet – Brake – Brass – Bridge – Buckles – Buffing – Buff stick – Burnisher – Burnishing – Burr – Bush

C

Cannon-pinion – Carbon – Carbon fiber –  Capillarity – Case – Caseback – Casing – Casting – Cast iron – Centre distance – Ceramic – Centre wheel – Chamfer – Chemical treatments – Chisels – Chiseling – Chronograph – Chronometre – Circular graining (cerclage) – Circular graining (perlage) – Clepsydra – Clearance – Click – Clock – Cock – Cold-work – Collet –  Complete calendar – Conical pivot – Contra-pinions – Controls – Contrôle officiel suisse des chronomètres (COSC) – Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) – Copper – Core – Correct – Counter – Counting – Countershafts – Coupling clutch – Cork – Correctors – CNC – Crown – Crown wheel – Crystals – Cylinder escapement – Cylindrical pivot

D

Date – Day – Dead-centre – Decrement – Degassing – Demagnetise – Degaussing – Design Engineer – Detent escapement – Dial – Diablotine – Diamond – Diamond polishing – Die – Differential – Disarm – Disc – Disconnecting gear – Display – Double time zone – Drill bit – Drilling-machine – Driving – Driven – Drop (angle) – Drop – Ductility – Duplex – Duplex Escapement – Dust blower – Dynamic setting

E

Eccentric – Elasticity – Electrical measurements – Electroerosion machine – Electrolysis – Elinvar – Emerald – Enamelling – Endshake – Engraver – Engraving ball vice – Engine-turn machine – Engine-turning – Engraving – Entry-palet –  Epilame-coating – Equation of time – Equinox – Escapement – Escapement adjusting – Escapement tester – Escapement-making – Escape wheel – Établissage – Exit-palet – Expansion – Extractor – External parts

F

Face-lathe – Felloe – Files – Flank – Fleurier Quality Foundation – Flinqué enamel – Flyback chronograph – Fluorescence – Finger – Folding buckle – Forge – Forged carbon –  Fourth wheel – Frequency – Full moon – Fusee

G

Gadroon – Galvanic treatments – Gaskets – Gauge – Gearing – Gear-train – Gem – Gemmologist –  Geneva seal – Geneva stripes – German silver – Glass – Glucydur – Guild – Gilding – GMT – Gnomon – Gold – Gouge – Grain abrasives – Graining – Grande Sonnerie – Grasshopper recoil – Greases – Gregorian calendar  – Groove – Grunge polishing – Guard-pin – Guard-pin block

H

Hacksaw – Hands – Hand Operated Tools – Hardness – Heat treatments – Helical – Herz – Hobbing – Hour-wheel – Hourglass

I

Impulse – Impulse-pin – Incabloc – Inclusions – Indentation – Indenting – Indicator – Index (on dial) – Index (regulator) – Inertia – Inertia block – Institutions – Instantaneous – Interchangeability – Invar – Iron – ISO – Isochronism

J

Julian calendar – Jumpers – Jumping seconds

K

Key – Kilo – Knock 

L

Lantern – Lanterning – Lapping – Lacquer – Latitude – Lathe – Leaf – Leap year – Leather – Leather straps – Length – Lever-fork –  Lever spring – Light – Line (unit) – Longitude – Lubrication – Lugs – Lug width – Lumonova – Lunation

M

Mainplate – Malleability –  Maltese cross – Manufacture – Manufacturing technologies – Masking – Master Chronometer (METAS) – Mass – Materials – Measurement units – Méche drill – MEMS – Metals – Metal bracelet – Meteorite – Micrometer – Micron – Microtechnical Engineer – Middle part – Miller – Milling – Milling-machine – Mineral materials – Minute Repeater – Minute wheel – Mohs scale – Month – Moon phase – Mother of pearl – Motor organ – Movement cage – Multiple time zone

N

New moon – Nickel Silver – Noonday gun

O

Oils – Oiling – Oil sink – Openwork – Organic materials – Oscillating weight – Oscillation – Out-of-flat – Out-of-round – Overbanking – Overhaul – Oxidation

P

Pad Printing – Pallet stone – Pendulum – Period – Perpetual calendar – Petite Sonnerie – Piezoelectricity – Pillars – Pin buckles – Pinions – Pitch – Pivot – Plant based bracelets – Plastic straps – Platinum – Plastics & Polymers – Plug gauges – Polishing – Polishing file – Polishing pastes – Power reserve – Profile turning – Push-pin – Pusher – Precious stones – Pulsometer

Q

Quality Control – Quartz

R

Rachet – Rate – Ream – Reamer – Reaming – Regulating organ – Regulator – Release – Relieve – Repere – Resonance – Resonator – Retrograde – Reverser  – Rhodium-plating – Rim – Rod – Roller –  Roller-pin – Rose gold – Round off – Ruby – Runner

S

Sand-blasting – Sapphire – Satin finish – Scratch-resistant – Screwdrivers – Screw plate – Season – Seize – Secular calendar – Secular year  – Set of Hands –  Setting – Shagreen – Shake – Shellac – To Shellac – Shot-blasting – Signs of zodiac – Silicon – Silver – Sink – Single-Function Machines – Sintering – Skeletonisation – Slipping spring – Snail (drop) – Snail (cam) – Snailing – Snap – Solid banking – Solstice – Sound signal – Split-seconds chronograph – Spring – Stainless –  Stamp – Stamping presses – Standard – Star – Static setting – Steel – Stop-second – Stopwork – Striking hour – Suisse lever escapement – Sunbursting – Surface treatments – Swan Neck – Switch – Swiss Watch Industry Employers’ Association

T

Tachymeter – Tantalum – Telemeter – Temperature – Thermoplastic – Thermoset – Thread – Threading – Throw out of gear – Third wheel – Tide display – Tideograph – Timegrapher – Time zones – Titanium – To true – Total block – Tourbillon – Tourbillon cage – Torque screwdrivers – Triggers – Trim – Trimming – Tripping – Tungsten – Turner – Turning arbor –  Tuning-fork – Tuning-fork watch – Tweezers

U

Uncase – Universal time – Unlocking –  UTC

V

Vapour phase deposition (CVD) (PVD)  – Vibration – Vice – Vice-block – Vice-clamps

W

Watch case – Watchmaker – Watchmaker’s chest – Watch pocket – Water-clock – Water-resistance – Westminster Chime – Winding – Whip – White gold – Winding stem – Wood – Workbench

X

Y

Yoke – 

Z

Zinc