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08.11.10
Anchor gear (anchor) – consists of the anchor wheel, anchor plugs and balance (double pendulum) – is part of the clock mechanism, which converts the energy of the primary (winding) of springs in the momenta transferred to the balance sheet to maintain a fixed period of oscillation, which is necessary for the uniform rotation shesterenochnogo mechanism.
Aperture - a small hole (window) in the face of a clock, which provides a current indication of the date, day of week, etc.
Baguette – clockwork elongated rectangular shape, the way the cut gems in the form of a rectangle.
Balance - balance wheel with a spiral, forming oscillatory system, a countervailing movement shesterenochnogo clock mechanism.
Water resistance - the property of the shell to prevent moisture in the clock mechanism. The degree of water-resistant clock is usually set in meters or atmospheres. Immersion at 10 meters corresponds to an increase of pressure by one atmosphere. For the first time this feature was implemented by Rolex in 1926.
Guilloche - how to handle dials, which with the help of the engraving machines make a picture in the form of combination of simple and curved lines.
The annual calendar - a calendar clock device, which includes pointers date, day of week and month, and do not require adjustment, excluding 29 February each leap year.
Bicolor hours - a term used to denote the clock case and bracelet are made of a combination of the gold coating, PVD or gold and stainless steel (with PVD – ion sputtering, more stable than any other type of coating).
Factory hours - an operation which consists in twisting the main (crown) spring hours. This operation can be carried out in two classic ways – manually or automatically. With manual winding twists with the crown hours. The automatic plant uses a special form of the rotor that converts the rotational energy in the energy needed to twist the main spring.
Crown – detail of the watch is used for factory hours and correction of the time and date. Cruising range of mechanical watches – the ability of the clock mechanism to continue normal operation during a certain time without factory mainspring. Cruising is fully wound watch is usually 36 – 46 hours.
Power reserve indicator – an indicator in the form of additional sector on the dial, showing the degree of factory mainspring of mechanical watches. It shows the time remaining before stopping the clock, either in absolute units – hours and days, or relative.
Moon phase indicator – dial graduated in 29 days and a rotating indicator, which shows the moon. Each time the indicator shows the current phase of the moon.
Cabochon - a way to cut gems in the form of a hemisphere. Typically, cabochons are used to decorate the crown and ushkah mounts bracelet or strap to the body clock.
What - in the simplest case, there is a clock in the form of aperture (window), which displays the current date. More complex devices show the date, day of week and months. The most difficult are perpetual calendar, which indicate the year, including leap year. Perpetual Calendar does not require the intervention of the owner to adjust the dates of the month, even in a leap year and are usually programmed to 100-250 years.
Caliber - a term used to describe the size and type of clockwork. Typically, the caliber number corresponds to-out mechanism, measured in lines, and some firms is simply a set of symbols to designate a particular model.
Stones – a term used to refer to watch parts, made of rubies, sapphires or garnets, both synthetic and natural, which are used to reduce friction between metal parts.
Line - the traditional measure of the size of the clock mechanism, which is equal to 2.255mm.
Bridge – A curved piece of clockwork, serves to consolidate the pillars of the axes watch gears. The name of the bridge corresponds to the name of the gear.
Shock - consists of a special mobile towers, which are attached to thin part of the balance. The movable support is arranged in such a way that the axial or side impact, the axis of balance is shifted upward or sideways and rests on the guides to their thickened parts, protecting the delicate parts of the axis of breakage or bending (incabloc).
Repassazh - full repair mechanism hours.
Repeater - complex mechanical watches, with an additional mechanism for indicating the time with the sounds of different pitch. Typically, such a watch, by pressing a special button, beat the clock, quarter hour and minute. In the models, Grand Sonnerie hours and minutes kicking automatically, but can indicate the time and when you press the button.Reference – the number of hours the catalog.
Retail – suggested retail price.
Rotor – poludisk of heavy metal, freely rotating around the axis of hours, which by reversing device converts the energy of their two-way rotation of the energy needed for the factory springs.
Secunda - the basic unit of time, component 1/86000-uyu part of the solar day, ie circulation time of the Earth around its axis. With the emergence after the Second World War, atomic clocks, it was found that the Earth rotates with an infinitely small irregularities. It was therefore decided to reinstall the standard-measuring seconds. This was done at the 13th General Conference of Weights and Measures in 1967. It has been determined as follows: “seconds” – a period of time equal to 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation of the cesium atom-133.pri transition between two neighboring stable levels.Skeleton - watches with a transparent dial and back cover, through which the visible mechanism. Details of the mechanisms of such clocks decorated with hand-engraved cover precious metals, sometimes decorated with precious stones.
A spiral or filament – a thin spiral spring, fixed at the inner end of the axis of balance, and external to the block. The number of turns carrying the helix is usually 11 or 13.
Spiral Breguet – spiral, the inner and outer ends of which are curved so that the period of oscillation of the balance-helix does not depend on the amplitude of oscillations (isochronism system). The invention made by Abraham Louis Breguet.
Split Chronograph - watch with a stopwatch, with the function of the intermediate finish.
Tachymeter - a scale to measure the average speed (in kilometers per hour) on a fixed track segment.
Tonne – a form of the watch, which resembles a barrel.
Tourbillon - a mechanism that compensates for the influence of gravity of the Earth on the accuracy of the clock
Chronograph – watch with a stopwatch and cumulative schetchikami.Predstavlyaet an anchor mechanism is placed inside a mobile platform with the balance in the center, and makes a complete revolution around its own axis in one minute. Invented in 1795 by Abraham Louis Breguet (ALBreguet). Patented in 1801.
Ultra-thin watches - watches with the thickness of the mechanism from 1.5 to 3.0 mm, to minimize the thickness of the clock.
Oyster - a way to double sealing mechanism clock that protects it from external influences.
Chronograph – watch with two independent measuring systems: one shows the current time, the other measures brief intervals of time. Counter registers for seconds, minutes and hours and can be switched on or off at will. Central second hand of clock is normally used as stopwatch second hand.
Chronometer - extremely accurate clocks, the last series of tests for accuracy and received certificates. Accuracy of the chronometers are only a few seconds per day when used in normal temperature conditions.
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