Culture de la Haute Horlogerie, Horological Lexicon. More: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8)
A
Accutron
Agate
Age of the moon
Alarm
All-or-nothing piece
Alloy
Amagnetic
Amplitude
Analogue
Annual calendar (watch)
Anti-magnetic
Aperture
Applied chapter (Applique)
Arabic numerals
Arbor
Argand burner
Art Deco
Assemble
Assembly
Assortiment
Asterism
Asthmometer
Atm (atmosphere)
Atmos
Atomic (clock)
Atomic clock
Atomic second
Automatic (Self-winding)
Autonomy
Autoquartz
B
Back
Bagnolet (calibre)
Baguette
Balance
Balance cock (modern)
Balance cock (traditional)
Balance spring
Bar
Barrel
Barrel arbor
Bassiner
Battery
Bearing
Bell
Bench
Bent index
Beryl
Bezel
Bezel or collet setting
Blanc roulant
Blank
Block
Blued steel
Bolt
Bort
Bottom plate
Bow
Bow lathe
Brace (Bridle)
Brass
Breguet overcoil
Bridge
Brilliant cut
Briolette
Bruting
Bulk setting
Burnish
Burnisher
C
Cabinet
Cabinotier
Cabochon
Cadrature Calibrated
Calibre
Cam
Canary diamond
Cannon pinion
Carat
Carbonado
Case
Case middle
Case up
Case-fitter
Casing ring
Catch
Ceramic
Chablon
Chamfer (Bevel)
Champlevé(e)
Chimes
Chip
Chronocomparator
Chronofiable
Chronograph
Chronometer (general definition)
Chronostop
Chuck
CIBJO
Clarity
Cleavage
Clepsydra
Clock
Cloisonné
Cloud
Clous de Paris
Coaxial
Colour
Column wheel
Combo
Combustion clock
Common year
Compensation
Complication
Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres
Copper-plate
Coral
Corrector
Corundum
COSC (Contrôle officiel suisse des chronomètres)
Côtes de Genève
Count wheel (Locking plate)
Countdown timer
Counter
Crown (jewellery)
Crown (watchmaking)
Crystal
Crystal habit
Crystal systems
Cubic zirconium
Culet
Cultured pearl
Cushion cut
Cut
Cuvette
Cycloid
D
Dart (Guard pin)
Date
Dauphine
Daylight Saving Time
Dead seconds
Decimal (Revolutionary) (Republican)
Decimal hour
Demantoid garnet
Detent
Dial
Dial foot
Diamond
Dichroism
Die
Diffusion treated
Digital
Direct-drive seconds (Trotteuse)
Disc
Disconnect
Display
Display lighting
Dividing head (Division plate)
Doubly refractive stone
Drift
Drum
Dual time zone
Dumortierite
Dynamograph
E
Ebauche
Electroluminescence
Electroplating
Emerald
Emerald cut
Enamel
Enamellist
Enamelwork
Endstone
Engage
Engine turn
Engine-turning (Guilloché)
Ephemeris
Equation of time
Escapement
Etablissage
Etablisseur
European cut , mine cut or cushion cut
Exterior
F
Fabrique
Facet
Faceting
Fancy cut
Fancy diamonds
Fastenings
Feather
Feuille
File
Fine stone
Finishing (Finissage)
Finisseur
Fire
Flange
Flinking (Flinqué)
Flirt (independent seconds)
Fluorescence
Fluting
Fly-back (Retour en vol)
Folding buckle
Foliot
Fork
Foudroyante (Jumping seconds or hand) (Flying seconds)
Fracture
Frame
Frequency
Fresh water cultured pearl
Full cut
Fusee
G
Gear train
Gears
Gemmology
Gemstone
GIA
Gild
Girdle
Glucidur (Glucydur)
Gnomon
Gold
Goldsmith
Gong
Goshenite
Governor
Grain
Grande complication
Grande sonnerie
Green diamond
Green garnet
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Gregorian calendar
H
Hammer
Hand
Hand-setting
Hardness
Hatch
Heart-shaped
Heliotrope
Hematite
Hertz (Hz)
Hessonite
Horn
Horn gap
Horology
Hour-wheel
Hunter
I
Imperial jade
Impulse
Incabloc®
Inclusion
Independent seconds
Index (Regulator)
Index for flat balance springs
Indicator
Inertia block
Integrated circuit
Intermediate wheel
Invar
Inverted calibre
Invisible setting
Iolite
Iridescence
Irradiation
Isochronal (Isochronous)
Isochronism
J
Jade
Jasper
Jewel
Jeweller
Jewels
Jumping hour
K
Karat
Karrusel
Knot
Kunzite
L
Labradorite
Lapidary
Lapis lazuli
Lathe
Latitude
Leaf
Leap year
Leather
Legal time
Lépine calibre (movement)
Lépine watch (Open-face)
Lever
Light-Emitting Diode (LED)
Ligne
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
Longitude
Lug
Luminescent
LumiNova®
Lunar revolution
Lunation
Luster
M
Mainspring winder
Maker’s mark
Malachite
Maltese Cross
Manual
Manufacture
Marcasite
Marine chronometer
Marker
Marquise
Master
Mastership
Mechanism
Melee
Meridian
Mesh
Microcrystallin
Micron
Microsecond
Mixed cut
Module
Mohs scale
Moissanite
Moon phases
Moonstone
Morganite
Moss agate
Mother-of-pearl
Motion work
Movement
Mysterious (clock or watch)
Mystery setting
N
Nacre
Natural pearl
Nephrite
Nickel silver (German silver)
Niello
O
Observatory chronometer
Official rating certificate
Oignon (watch)
Oil sink
Oiling
Onyx
Opale
Opaque
Organic
Orient
Ornamental gems
Oscillating weight (Rotor)
Oscillation
Oscillator
Oval (55 facets)
P
Padparadsha sapphire
Paillon
Paillonné enamel
Painting on enamel
Pairing
Palladium
Pallet
Pantograph
Parts
Pavé
Pavilion
Pawl (Click)
Pear shape
Pearl
Pellaton (winding system)
Pendant
Pendulum
Peridot
Period
Perpetual calendar
Perpetual calendar (watch)
Perpétuelle
Petite sonnerie
Piezoelectric
Pillar
Pin
Pinion
Pivot
Planing machine
Plating
Platinum
Pleochroism
Poinçon de Genève
Point
Polish
Power reserve
Precious stone
Precision timer
Princess cut
Prong or claw setting
Pulsometer
Punaise
Push fit
Push-button
PVD
Q
Quartz
Quartz oscillator
R
Rack
Radiant cut
Railroad
Ratchet
Rate
Ream
Recess
Red diamond
Refraction
Refractive index
Refractometer
Regulating organ (regulator)
Regulating parts
Regulator
Repair
Repairer
Repassage
Repeater
Repoussé
Resonance
Retour en vol
Retrograde
Revolutionary
Revolutionary calendar
Rhodium plating
Rhodochrosite
Rim
Roch cristal
Rock setting
Roman numerals
Rose cut
Rotor
Rough
Ruby
Rutilated quartz
S
Safety roller
Sapphire
Scale
Scratchproof
Screw
Second
Secret spring
Secular leap year
Self-winding (Automatic)
Set (to)
Setting
Ship’s chronometer
Shock absorber
Shockproof
Sidereal day
Silent
Simple calendar (watch)
Skeleton
Skeleton movement
Slide
Smoky quartz
Snailing
Snap
Snow setting
Solidalite
Souscription (watch)
Specific gravity
Spectroscope
Spinel
Split-seconds (chronograph)
Split-seconds chronograph
Spring
Stamping
Stamping press
Steel
Step motor
Stippling (Spotting)
Stone
Stopwork
Strap
Striking mechanism
Stud
Subsidiary seconds
Sunray brushing
Sweep seconds
Swiss T 25 (T Swiss made T)
Sympathique
Synthetic ruby (Scientific ruby)
Synthetic stone
T
Table
Tachymeter
Tahitian cultured pearl
Tanzanite
Tapestry pattern
Telemeter
Temper
Terminage
Terminal coil
Termineur
Test
The roman numeral IIII on dials
Thermal compensator
Thread
Thread tap
Tiger’s eye
Time zone
Timepiece
Timer
Timing
Tooth
Tourbillon
Tourmaline
Train
Transfer
Translucent
Transparent
Trillion cut
Tritium
Trotteuse
Trueing calipers
Tsavorite
Tuning-fork
Turning arbor
Turquoise
Tweezers
U
Ultra-complicated watch
Under-dial work
Universal (watch)
Universal hour
Universal Time (UT)
V
Vagues de Genève
Vane
Vermeil
Vibration
W
Watch
Watchmaker’s cabinet
Water
Water clock
Waterproof
Water-resistance
Wheel
Wheel-cutting engine
Wind
Winding mechanism
World time
X
Y
Year
Z
Zinc
Zodiac