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The Watch Encyclopedia

Understand the details that make a watch.

10 terms

Baton hands

Hands with a narrow, generally straight-sided outline.

A bracelet design with small rounded centre links resembling grains of rice.

The ring surrounding the crystal, which may be fixed or rotating and may carry a functional scale.

A common modern description for a chronograph dial with two principal counters.

A bezel that can rotate in either direction, used for functions such as time-zone or countdown tracking.

Steel hands coloured blue through a controlled process, traditionally heat treatment.

A raised crystal with a profile resembling the stepped or vertical-sided shape of traditional acrylic crystals.

A hand style with a distinctive open circular element near its pointed end.

A copper-based alloy used for some watch cases, often developing a changing surface patina.

A folding clasp opening in two opposing sections, often concealing much of the closure when worn.