Mechanical watch
Mechanical watch
A watch is composed of three essential parts :
- The movement is the set of mechanisms serving to indicate the hour, minutes, seconds, fractions of a second, date…
- The dial and hands are the organs serving to display the time
- The case protects the watch movement. Composed of the middle, bezel, glass and back, it gives the watch its style and personality.
On average a simple mechanical watch comprises 130 parts (1 part = any individually made part, i.e. a wheel = 2 parts).
Research
Research
For research into the first Rieussec chronographs, the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie wishes to locate this piece, made between 1820 and 1830.
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