What is the art of watchmaking called?

People interested in horology are called horologists. That term is used both by people who deal professionally with timekeeping apparatus (watchmakers, clockmakers), as well as aficionados and scholars of horology.

What is a hanging watch called?

A pocket watch (or pocketwatch) is a watch that is made to be carried in a pocket, as opposed to a wristwatch, which is strapped to the wrist.

What do you call watch repairers?

A watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches. Since a majority of watches are now factory-made, most modern watchmakers only repair watches.

What is Verge Fusee?

Used in antique spring-powered mechanical watches and clocks, a fusee is a cone-shaped pulley with a helical groove around it, wound with a cord or chain which is attached to the mainspring barrel.

What is a master watchmaker?

MC: In the traditional sense, a master watchmaker is someone who knows how to perform every task necessary to make a watch. In workshops of centuries past master watchmakers did not have do to much work but they had to be able to supervise other watchmakers who were doing the work.

Why is it called a turnip watch?

A pocket watch nicknamed “The Turnip”. Commissioned in 1890 by Winston Churchill’s grandfather, Breguet pocket watch no. 765 had both a split-seconds chronograph and minute repeater, and was nicknamed “The Turnip”.

What is FOB in jewelry?

A fob is a vest pocket in a gentleman’s outfit. Often a fob held a pocket watch which was swung from a chain, attached to the vest pocket on the opposite side of the vest. These fob chains often had small pendants – as seals – and these pendants themselves became known as fobs.

What is a triple fusee clock?

A single-fusee clock is one which does not strike; a double-fusee also strikes the hours; a triple fusee also chimes the quarter hours of plays a tune. A fusee movement is usually an indication of quality.

What is a fusee watch?

Used in antique spring-powered mechanical watches and clocks, a fusee (from the French fusée, wire wound around a spindle) is a cone-shaped pulley with a helical groove around it, wound with a cord or chain which is attached to the mainspring barrel.

What is the Holy Trinity of watches?

You may have heard of the Holy Trinity of watchmaking. It consists of three of the top luxury Swiss watch manufacturers: Audemars Piguet, Vacheron Constantin and Patek Philippe.