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Oscillating system of a mechanical watch

Basic Terms from the World of Watches

• Wristwatch - Pocket watch
• Movement - Manufactory
• Automatic watch - Quartz watch
• Chronometer - Chronometer certification
• Geneva Seal - Glashütte Observatory - Qualité Fleurier
• Chronograph - Double chronograph - Flyback
• Tourbillon - Flying tourbillon - Gyrotourbillon
• Repetition
• Perpetual calendar - Moon phase - Second time zone - World timer - Equation of time - Alarm watch
• Regulator
• Waterproof - Screw-in crown
• Sapphire crystal - Mineral glass - Acrylic glass
• Guilloché - Finishing ‎- Perlage - Geneva stripes - Skeletonizing - Enameling - Satination

Maintenance

• Watch care - Watch maintenance - Watch revision - Watch restauration

Gerd-Rüdiger Lang, founder of Chronoswiss

Important Persons of the Watch History

• Abraham-Louis Breguet: Most important watchmaker in the history of horology and a great inventor
• Jean-Adrien Philippe
• Charles Antoine LeCoultre
• Ferdinand Adolph Lange: Founder of A. Lange & Söhne in Glashütte
• John Harwood
• Hans Wilsdorf: Founder of Rolex
• Edouard Heuer - Jack W. Heuer
• Helmut Sinn: Founder of Sinn Spezialuhren Frankfurt
• Günter Blümlein: Leading personality at IWC and LMH
• Jean-Claude Biver: Influential circulator of ideas in the watch business at (Blancpain, Hublot)
• Gerd-Rüdiger Lang: Founder of Chronoswiss
• Nicolas G. Hayek: Important watch business man (Swatch)

Hublot Big Bang King "Porto Cervo" with case in red gold/ceramic

Materials

• Gold - White gold - Yellow gold - Rose gold - Red gold
• Platinum - Palladium
• Stainless steel
• Titanium - Tantalum - Tungsten
• Ceramic - Carbon - Nanofiber

More

• Ebauches SA - ETA
• The success story of the "Swatch" / From SSIH to the Swatch Group, the world's bigges watch trust
• Baselworld