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Reference guide

Watch references by movement type

How each reference is wound and regulated, classified from the maker's own movement description. What you wind by hand, what winds itself, and what does neither.

96 of 96 references carry this figure.

Self-winding (73)

Hand-wound (8)

No slipping bridle protecting the mainspring. When the crown stops, stop.

Spring Drive (5)

A seconds hand that glides rather than steps.

Quartz (9)

Solar (1)

Charge it in daylight before judging anything about it.