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  2. Movement (clockwork) - Wikipedia

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    Movement (clockwork) In horology, a movement, also known as a caliber or calibre ( British English ), is the mechanism of a watch or timepiece, as opposed to the case, which encloses and protects the movement, and the face, which displays the time. The term originated with mechanical timepieces, whose clockwork movements are made of many moving ...

  3. List of ETA Movements - Wikipedia

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    No. Yes. Yes. ETACHRON. Chronograph mechanism with cams, 3 push buttons, chronograph 60 seconds, 30 minutes and 12 hours counters, date in window, date correction by means of push button at 10 o’clock. 7754 [ 24] Yes. Yes. small second.

  4. Chinese standard movement - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Standard Movement, also commonly known as the "Tongji" (Chinese: 统机, "unified") movement, is a mechanical watch movement that was developed in the People's Republic of China during its fourth Five-Year Plan in the 1970s. [ 1] It was designed by engineers from several early Chinese watch factories as part of a Ministry of Light ...

  5. Mainspring - Wikipedia

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    Mainspring. An uncoiled modern watch mainspring. A pendulum wall clock movement showing the two mainsprings which power it. This is a striking clock which sounds the hours on a chime; one of the springs powers the timekeeping gear train while the other powers the striking train. A mainspring is a spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon—commonly ...

  6. Mechanical watch - Wikipedia

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    The hand-winding movement of a Russian watch. A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio watches, which are quartz watches synchronized to an atomic clock via radio waves.

  7. Chronometer watch - Wikipedia

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    Chronometer watch. A chronometer ( Ancient Greek: χρονόμετρον, khronómetron, "time measurer") is an extraordinarily accurate mechanical timepiece, with an original focus on the needs of maritime navigation. In Switzerland, timepieces certified by the Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres ( COSC) may be marked as Certified ...

  8. Complication (horology) - Wikipedia

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    Complication (horology) In horology, a complication is any feature of a timepiece beyond the display of hours, minutes and seconds. A timepiece indicating only hours, minutes and seconds is known as a simple movement. Common complications include date or day-of-the-week indicators, alarms, chronographs (stopwatches), and automatic winding ...

  9. Quartz clock - Wikipedia

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    Quartz clock. Circuit board of an e block from a chronograph -wristwatch. Quartz oscillator crystal on right. Quartz clocks and quartz watches are timepieces that use an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time. This crystal oscillator creates a signal with very precise frequency, so that quartz clocks and watches are at ...

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