mechanical watches
11Escapement — redirects here. For the fisheries term for the stock surviving fishing pressures over a spawning cycle, see Spawn (biology). For other uses, see Escapement (disambiguation). A deadbeat escapement, used in many pendulum clocks. Click above to see… …
12Pocket watch — This article is about the portable timepiece. For the Dave Grohl album, see Pocketwatch (album). A gold pocket watch with hunter case and watch chain …
13Automatic quartz — is a collective term describing watch movements that combine a self winding rotor mechanism (as used in automatic mechanical watches) to generate electricity with a piezoelectric quartz crystal as its timing element. Such movements aim to provide …
14COSC — This article is about the Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute, known by its French acronym of COSC. For the state college in Connecticut, see Charter Oak State College. Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres COSC aka C.O.S.C. is… …
15ETA SA — Infobox Company company name = ETA SA company type = Member of the Swatch Group company company slogan = Elegance, Technology, Accuracy foundation = 1856 (1793, 1896) location city = Grenchen location country = Switzerland key people = industry …
16Quartz crisis — The Quartz Crisis was a period in time in the 1970s and early 1980s which coincided with the advent of quartz oscillator technology watches, a general economic down turn and, the low point of the Swiss watch industry which chose to remain focused …
17Automatic watch — An automatic or self winding watch is a mechanical watch, whose mainspring is wound automatically by the natural motion of the wearer s arm, to make it unnecessary to manually wind the watch. Most mechanical watches sold today are self winding.… …
18watch — /woch/, v.i. 1. to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed. 2. to look or wait attentively and expectantly (usually fol. by for): to watch for a …
19Mainspring — For the 2007 novel by Jay Lake, see Mainspring (novel). An uncoiled modern watch mainspring …
20Balance wheel — in a cheap 1950s alarm clock, the Apollo, by Lux Mfg. Co. showing the balance spring (1) and regulator (2) …
