Ability to schedule the watch to alert you with an alarm sound at a pre-set time.

Time is displayed by hands rotating on a marked dial.

Mechanical timepieces that are wound by the motion of the wrist. This motion makes the rotor pivot around a staff connected to the mainspring through a gearing. Overwinding is prevented by a clutch.   [..]

The ring that surrounds the watch face. This holds the glass covering or crystal in place. It can be stationary or rotating or have special functions, like indicating minutes on a diving watch.        [..]

A chronometer is a movement that has received a certificate delivered after passing a series of stringent tests under varied temperatures, vertical positions, etc. The most renowned official testing o [..]

Usually a calendar, this feature shows the date. There are several types of watch date displays: digital or sub-dial calendars. A "perpetual calendar" automatically adjusts for the varying l [..]

A watch that displays the time through numerals, usually using LCD or LED technology, rather than with a dial and hands (analog) display.                   Escapement A device in a mechanical watch th [..]

An extra second-hand that is superposed on a chronograph’s main second-hand and is commanded by an additional push-button. To read intermediate time duration, the fly-back hand is stopped, and then ma [..]

On the face of the watch, an engraving technique in which a very precise, intricate, repetitive pattern or design is mechanically etched into an underlying material with very fine detail.       Index [..]

Synthetic rubies or sapphires used as bearings in a watch movement to reduce friction between parts. They also have the capacity to retain lubricants by capillary action, releasing them little by litt [..]