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Glossary: Useful Terms Relating To Watches & Jewellery
Hallmark
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Symbol stamped in metal to guarantee the origin and content of precious metal.
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Hand
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Indicator usually made of a light, thin piece of metal which moves around, or over, a graduated dial or scale. Watches generally have three hands to show the hours, minutes and seconds. Hands can have very different shapes: pear, Breguet (also called moon hands, they have a hole cut into a small disc near the point), sword, skeleton, baton, arrow, etc. The seconds hand (sweep or direct drive) can be mounted at the centre of the dial with the hour and minute hands, or on a small dial usually situated at 6 o'clock (small seconds). On a mechanical movement, the centre seconds hand generally jumps forward five times a second; on a quartz movement, only once a second.
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