Many amateurs and connoisseurs know much about mechanical watches. But how well do they know the process of creation of a timepiece? Try to answer the questions of our little test to find out whether you are a real expert on watchmaking.
1. In order to polish the barrel or any other oversized detail that is difficult to fix with a usual collet one should use:
a. candle
b. primus stove
c. file
d. flashlight
2. These strange objects have been used by watchmakers for several centuries. Watchmakers use them if:
a. he needs to pin the wheel to the axis
b. he needs to wind the watch
c. he needs to make the small parts of the movement wet
d. the client is being rude
3. The watchmakers are supposed to invent:
a. the turning machine
b. continuous milling machine
c. pair of compasses
d. microscope
4. Millionometer is the instrument that watchmakers use to measure the parts with accuracy up to 1/1000 of a millimetre. It was invented by:
a. Abraham Louis Breguet
b. Charles Antoine LeCoultre
c. Jean Jacques Blancpain
d. Ivan Kulibin
5. This device was used for:
a. putting the decorative pattern on the crown
b. screws thread
c. chronograph buttons production
d. making dinner
6. The device in the picture is:
a. vernier callipers
b. razors for balance adjusting
с. vice clamp for final paddle adjustment
d. clamp for hands straightening
7. To set the small machines in motion a watchmaker often used this device:
a. bow
b. blind
c. sabre
8. In 1819 the Swiss company Lienhard built the first:
a. movement assembly automatic line
b. drilling machine
c. gear-cutting machine
d. guilloche machine
9. The device in the case was used to polish the tips of the axes. Its name was borrowed from German and sounds as:
a. weltzwerk
b. axinstrument
c. zapf-machine
d. polirenwaffe
Key to the test: 1.d; 2.b; 3.b; 4.b; 5b; 6.b; 7.a; 8.d; 9.c
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