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Why The Power Reserve Indicator Is a Brilliant Complication
To fall in love with mechanical timepieces, you first need to understand what power reserve is and why the power reserve indicator matters.
31 Dec 2023
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5 Ways to Care for Your Patek Philippe Timepieces
Keep your Patek Philippe watches running smoothly and looking brand new with these simple care tips, so the next generation can continue to enjoy them in the future.
10 Oct 2021
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Minute Repeater
A repeater is a watch that provides an acoustic dimension in time-telling. This is achieved in mechanical timepieces with a striking mechanism using hammers that strike gongs to sound the time, typically indicating the hours and minutes.
11 Dec 2020
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Tourbillon
The tourbillon is one of the most fascinating horological complications with origins dating back to the late 16th century. It is basically a mechanism that improves the precision of a watch by having the escapement placed within a carriage that rotates completely on its own axis.
25 Nov 2020
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Diver Counter
The rotating bezel, commonly found on sports watches, is a utilitarian tool when used in conjuction with the time shown by the running movement. The dive counter on the rotating bezel is one such example where there is typically a track in one-minute increments up to the first 15 or 20 minutes while the other reference markers are in five-minute intervals.
29 Oct 2020
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Chronograph
A chronograph is a time-telling instrument such as a pocket watch or wristwatch equipped with a mechanism that can measure short intervals of time on demand.
21 Oct 2020
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Bezel
The bezel is the ring or frame that secures a transparent protective layer of material made of either sapphire crystal, mineral glass or plexiglass over the dial and to the watch case.
05 Oct 2020
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Automatic Movement (Self-winding)
Also known as a self-winding movement, an automatic movement of a mechanical watch has a mechanism that winds the mainspring by a rotor or oscillating weight. Most rotors pivot freely on their central axle.
17 Sep 2020
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Moon Phase Display
The Moon’s phases can be tracked by the moon phase display on watches.
04 Sep 2020
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UTC
UTC refers to Coordinated Universal Time, the international time standard that is within one second of mean solar time at zero degrees longitude or at the prime meridian.
15 Aug 2020
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GMT
GMT is the acronym for Greenwich Mean Time, the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory located in Greenwich, London. GMT was the international time standard till it was replaced by UTC in 1972.
07 Aug 2020
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Second Time Zone
A watch with the second time zone feature is equipped with either a mechanism or device that is able to display the time in another time zone.
24 Jul 2020
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