Watch Glossary
Often highly technical and mechanical pieces, watches can have lots of complications - an additional feature of a watch that isn't timekeeping. This watch glossary explains watch functions, terms and parts.
A
Alarm
Altimeter
Analogue
Annual Calendar
Antimagnetic
Anti-reflective coating
Aperture
Arabic numerals
Atomic calendar
Automatic movement
B
Balance spring
Balance wheel
Barrel
Baton hour markers
Battery
Bezel
Bidirectional rotating bezel
Bracelet
Bridge
Buckle
C
Cabochon
Calendar
Calibre
Cambered crystal
Case
Case back
Chronograph
Chronometer
Complication
C.O.S.C
Countdown timer
Crown
Crystal
Cyclops
D
Day/date
Deployment buckle/clasp
Dial
Digital dial
Dual time
Domed crystal
E
Escapement
Exhibition case back
F
Face
Function
G
Gear train
GMT time zone
Guilloche
H
Hands
Hand-winding movement
Hairspring
Haute Horlogerie
Helium escape valve
Horology
I
Indices
J
Jewels
K
L
Lap timer
Lever escapement
Lugs
Luminous/ Luminescence
M
Mainplate
Mainspring
Manual movement
Manufacture d'horologie
Mechanical movement or watch
Moonphase
Movement
N
O
P
Perpetual calendar
Power reserve
Power reserve indicator
Pusher / push piece
PVD physical vapour deposition
Q
Quartz
R
Rattrapante chronograph
Reserve de Marche
Rotating bezel
Rotor
S
Sapphire crystal glass
Screw down crown
Second time zone indicator
Self-winding movement
Skeleton dial
Slide rule
Solar powered
Split seconds chronograph
Spring bar
Stopwatch
Strap
Subdial
Superluminova
Swiss Made
T
Tachymeter scale
Tourbillon
U
Uni-directional rotating bezel
V
W
Water resistant
Worldtimer
X
Y
Z
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