All right, let’s consider the reason people usually purchase watches. First, it is time checking. No, it’s not what you’re here for. You came to admire the movement inside and that is the point of getting this watch!
Look at the reverse side of the watch cover. Steel solid caseback implies quartz battery or a boring producer. Sapphire crystal window is the key thing to prepare yourself for the admiration of the inner mechanism. The transparency will help to distinguish a horologist from a fashionista.
First, find the rotating metal part. Rotor is the huge heavy gold or tungsten disc that turns 360 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise and winds the spring inside the watch. Rotor of Rolex is rather bulky and non-spindly. Audemars Piguet rotor is a skull-shaped thing. Rotor gives lots of information concerning care and finishing put into a watch by the manufacturer?
Next, you should find the beating heart of your watch. That is the tiny wheel – balance wheel. Expensive manufacturers always perform heat treatment of the balance wheel and make it blue. And if there are golden screws on it, the price is quite serious indeed. It’s practically a Ferrari engine block but smaller.
Then you should pay attention to the polished angles of the bridges inside the watch. This type of decoration is called the Geneva Striping or Côtes de Genève. This decoration looks like wood grains or waves along the steel surface. Sharp edges of the Geneva Striping prove that the person spent lots of time under the microscope to make this decoration. Fake Geneva Striping is lifeless and dull like poor wallpaper. Pink gems are rubies that serve as bearings to reduce the friction.
You are going through the biography of the watch and see where the money was spent. Look attentively and forget about time forever!
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