Know your super rep from your bussdown and your ghost bezel from your cyclops? The world of watches is notoriously arcane and fetishistic, with a whole vocabulary known only to the initiated. Here, the acclaimed compiler of miscellanies provides a glossary for the horologically perplexed.
(Time)piece
(Un)ironically pompous and olde-worlde term for a wristwatch.
Entry/starter
The piece that kicks off a (collecting) journey. Conversely, exit watch A [holy] grail watch that (in theory) completes a collection.
