Horological Meandering

From, I think, the Vacheron booth and edited here for typos and redundancy, a long list of what's involved in watchmaking which doesn't even include some of my favorites, like anglage and at other times is curiously specific.  It's as if employees were invited to add their job descriptions to the list!

Adjustment of modules

Adjusting forces

Aesthetic inspection

Annealing

Annealing between plates

Assembly of complicated calibers

Assembly on a plate

Atmos colorless glaze

Atmos transfer

Automated bending (stamping)

Automated blanking

Automated circular graining

Automated gear cutting

Automatic blanking

Automatic driving in of single parts

Automatic oiling

Baguette setting

Balance wheel and hairspring pairing

Balance-spring cutting

Batch blueing

Blueing screws

Brass dissolution

Brushed chamfering

Buffing

Burnishing

Cam profile-turning

Cambering

Casing

Chamfering by hand

Checking plating thickness

Chemical analysis

Chemical nickel plating

Circular brushing

Circular graining by hand

Claw setting

Conception and tuning of cutting tools

Correction

Corrective swages

Corrosion check

Côtes de Genève

Counter drilling by hands

Cylindrical grinding

Date disc transfer

Degreasing (chemical and electrolytic)

Degreasing with solvent

Demetallisation

Dial fitting

Dial transfer

Diamond beveling

Diamond polishing

Diamond sink

Dimension check

Drawing

Driving in

Driving in multipoint parts

Electrical discharge machining

Enamelling

Engraving by hand

Epilame-coating

Escapment-wheel truing

Fired enamels

Flat polishing

Functional inspection

Gemmology

Gemset engraving

Gilding

Glass powder sand-blasting

Glazing and silvering

Glazing portable timepieces

Glazing the Atmos dial

Gold plating

Grinding

Grip canon-pinion

Hand cutting

Hand polishing

Hands fitting

Hardening in oil

Hardening in water

Highspeed machining

Inspection

Invisible setting

Lacquer polishing

Lacquered engraving

Lacquerin

Lapidary

Laquering

Laser engraving

Laser heat treatment

Laser sanding

Laser soldering

Lift angle

Lifting the Breguet endcurve or overcoil

Line engraving

Linear smoothing

Lubricating the mainspring

Lye cleaning

Machine engraving

Machining in 5 axes simultaneously

Machining in 7 axes simultaneously

Manual driving in of single parts

Manual oiling

Masking with varnish

Material analysis

Mechanical chamfering

Moon disc transfer

Mounting lift

NC machine fitting (adjustment, trimming)

NC machine fitting to prepare for polishing

NC profile cutting

NC profile-turning

Nickel plating

Organic cleaning

Pallets closing

Pattern engraving

Pinning-up to the collet

Planing

Polishing with wood

Positioning on plates

Preparing colors

Programming

Progressive blanking

Progressive swages

Prototyping

Reaming

Recycling galvanizing water

Rhodium

Rhodium gem-setting

Rice grain peening

Riveting

Rotor magnetizing

Rounding off

Rounding off (the) dart / Dart top

Running setting

Ruthenium coating

Sand blasting

Sequential assembly

Shaking

Sharped peening

Shot-blasting

Sink

Sink polishing

Snailing

Snow Setting

Spring winding

Stamped chamfering / stamped beveling

Stamping

Structural hardening

Sunburst patterning

Tapping adjustment screws

Tempering

Tempering between plates

Tin soldering

Tools conception

Traditional gem-setting

Traditional machining

Transfer machining

Tribology

Trim scrapper

Trimming

Trueing by co-ordinate

Trueing in the flat (balance-spring)

Tumble polishing

Turning segment

Varnish removal

Varnish removal / Paint removal

Watch assembly

Watch construction

Watch repair

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