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 – Assembly – Astronomical indications – Astronomy – Automatic lathe

B

Balance spring – Balance wheel – Barrel – Barrel drum – Benzine cup – Bevelling – Bezel – Blower – Bow lathe – Bracelet – Brass – Bridge – Buckles – Buff stick – Burnisher

C

Cannon-pinion – Carbon – Carbon fiber –  Capillarity – Case – Caseback – Casing – Cast iron – Ceramic – Centre wheel – Chamfer – Chemical treatments – Chisels – Chiseling – Chronograph – Circular graining (cerclage) – Circular graining (perlage) – Clepsydra – Cold-work – Complete calendar – Conical pivot – Contra-pinions – Controls – Contrôle officiel suisse des chronomètres (COSC) – Copper – Countershafts – Cork – Correctors – CNC – Crown – Crown wheel – Crystals – Cylinder escapement – Cylindrical pivot

D

Date – Day – Dead-centre – Detent escapement – Dial – Diamond – Display – Double time zone – Drilling-machine – Dust blower – Dynamic setting

E

Electrical measurements – Electroerosion machine – Emerald – Enamelling – Endshake – Engine-turn machine – Engine-turning – Engraving – Entry-palet –  Epilame-coating – Equation of time – Equinox – Escapement – Escapement meter – Escapement-making – Escape wheel – Exit-palet

F

Face-lathe – Felloe – Files – Fleurier Quality Foundation – Flyback chronograph – Folding buckle – Forged carbon –  Fourth wheel – Frequency – Full moon – Fusee

G

Galvanic treatments – Gaskets – Gear-train – Geneva seal – Geneva stripes – German silver – Glass – Gilding – GMT – Gnomon – Gold – Grande Sonnerie –  Greases – Gregorian calendar  – Grunge polishing – Guard-pin – Guard-pin block

H

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

I

Impulse-pin – Indenting – Index (on dial) – Index (regulator) – Inertia – Institutions – Isochronism

J

Julian calendar – Jumpers

K

Knock 

L

Lathe – Leap year – Leather – Leather straps – Length – Lever-fork –  Lever spring – Light – Line (unit) – Lubrication – Lugs – Lunation

M

Mainplate – Maltese cross – Manufacturing technologies – Master Chronometer (METAS) – Mass – Materials – Measurement units – Metals – Metal bracelet – Meteorite – Micrometer – Micron – Middle part – 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 – Noonday gun

O

Oils – Openwork – Organic materials – Oscillating weight – Oscillation – Overbanking – Overhaul – Oxidation

P

Pad Printing – Pallets – Pendulum – Period – Perpetual calendar – Petite Sonnerie – Piezoelectricity – Pillars – Pin buckles – Pinions – Pitch – Pivot – Plant based bracelets – Plastic straps – Platinum – Plastics & Polymers – Polishing – Polishing pastes – Power reserve – Pusher – Precious stones – Pulsometer

Q

Quality Control – Quartz

R

Rachet – Regulating organ – Regulator – Repere – Resonance – Resonator – Retrograde – Reverser  – Rhodium-plating – Roller-pin – Rose gold – Ruby

S

Sand-blasting – Sapphire – Satin finish – Screwdrivers – Season – Secular calendar – Secular year  – Setting – Shake – Shellac – Shot-blasting – Signs of zodiac – Silicon – Silver – Single-Function Machines – Skeletonisation – Slipping spring – Solid banking – Solstice – Sound signal – Split-seconds chronograph – Spring – Stamping presses – Static setting – Steel – Stop-second – Striking hour – Sunbursting – Surface treatments – Swan Neck

T

Tachymeter – Tantalum – Telemeter – Temperature – Thermoplastic – Thermoset – Third wheel – Tide display – Tideograph – Time zones – Titanium – Tourbillon – Tourbillon cage – Torque screwdrivers – Triggers – Trim – Trimming – Tungsten – Turning arbor –  Tuning-fork – Tuning-fork watch – Tweezers

U

Universal time 

V

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

W

Watch case – Water-clock – Westminster Carillon – White gold – Winding stem – Wood

X

Y

Z

Zinc