Reference
Movements
The calibers inside the watches — 2114 of them, 159 researched with sources and lineage, the rest found while crawling brand sites. Open a row’s sources to see where its story came from, or find the watches in this catalog that use it.
2,114 records
| Sources | Actions | ||||||||||
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L043.1Zeitwerk | A. Lange & Sohne | Mechanical | Manual | 2009–present | Current | Constant-force digital jumping-hours and jumping-minutes movement used in the Zeitwerk. | 4+2 known | ||||
L155.1 DatomaticOdysseus | A. Lange & Sohne | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2019–present | Current | Automatic day-date movement created for the Odysseus sports watch line. | 0+2 known | ||
L901.0Lange 1 | A. Lange & Sohne | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1994–2015 | Discontinued | Original Lange 1 movement with three-quarter plate, twin barrels, outsize date, and asymmetric display. | 19+2 known | ||
L951.1Datograph | A. Lange & Sohne | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1999–2012 | Discontinued | Original Datograph hand-wound flyback chronograph movement with outsize date. | 3+2 known | ||
SF240Angelus SF240 | Angelus | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | c. 1936–1958 | Discontinued | Large 8-day hand-wound movement historically used in Panerai military watches. | 0+2 known | ||
2120AP 2120 | Audemars Piguet | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1967–2019 | Discontinued | Audemars-finished version of the JLC 920 ultra-thin automatic without date. | 0+2 known | ||
2121AP 2121 | Audemars Piguet | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1972–2022 | Discontinued | Date-equipped Royal Oak Jumbo movement derived from the JLC 920 architecture. | 0+3 known | ||
3120AP 3120 | Audemars Piguet | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2003–2020 | Discontinued | In-house automatic movement used across Royal Oak and Offshore models. | 0+3 known | ||
4302AP 4302 | Audemars Piguet | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2019–present | Current | Modern automatic date movement introduced with Code 11.59 and later used in Royal Oak 41 mm models. | 0+3 known | ||
4401AP 4401 | Audemars Piguet | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2019–present | Current | Integrated flyback chronograph movement with column wheel and vertical clutch. | 0+2 known | ||
Beta 21Beta 21 | Beta 21 Consortium | Quartz | Battery | Quartz crystal | 1969–1972 | Discontinued | Early Swiss quartz movement used by several luxury brands before proprietary quartz systems took over. | 0+3 known | |||
B01Breitling B01 | Breitling | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2009–present | Current | In-house column-wheel, vertical-clutch automatic chronograph movement. | 0+3 known | ||
B20Breitling B20 | Breitling | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2017–present | Current | Breitling-finished automatic based on the Tudor/Kenissi MT5612 family. | 0+2 known | ||
B35Breitling B35 | Breitling | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2015–present | Current | In-house automatic world-time movement. | 0+2 known | ||
214Bulova Accutron | Bulova | Battery | Tuning fork | 1960–1977 | Discontinued | Tuning-fork electronic movement that predated mass quartz adoption and became an icon of precision timekeeping. | 0+1 known | ||||
1000Buren micro-rotor | Buren | Mechanical | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | c. 1954–1966 | Discontinued | Early micro-rotor automatic movement family used by Buren and later Hamilton-related watches. | 0+2 known | |||
1847 MCCartier 1847 | Cartier | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2015–present | Current | Automatic movement used in mainstream Cartier Santos, Ballon Bleu, and Tank models. | 28+3 known | ||
1904 MCCartier 1904 | Cartier | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2010–present | Current | Modern Cartier automatic base movement with twin barrels. | 0+2 known | ||
L.U.C 96.01-LChopard L.U.C 96 | Chopard | Mechanical | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1996–present | Current | Twin-barrel micro-rotor automatic movement that launched Chopard's L.U.C manufacture era. | 0+2 known | |||
0100Citizen Caliber 0100 | Citizen | Solar quartz | Solar cell | Quartz crystal | 2019–present | Current | Ultra-high-accuracy Eco-Drive quartz movement rated to about one second per year. | 0+2 known | |||
A060Citizen The Citizen | Citizen | Solar quartz | Solar cell | Quartz crystal | c. 1995–present | Current | High-accuracy annual-calendar Eco-Drive quartz movement used in The Citizen Chronomaster models. | 0+2 known | |||
2801-2ETA 2801 | ETA | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1980–present | Current | Hand-wound three-hand movement without date, popular for field watches and simple dress watches. | 2+2 known | ||
2804-2ETA 2804 | ETA | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1980–present | Current | Hand-wound movement with date, mechanically related to the 2824/2801 family. | 1+2 known | ||
2824-2ETA 2824 | ETA | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1982–present | Current | Workhorse three-hand automatic with date, widely used and cloned across Swiss and microbrand watches. | 180+3 known | ||
2836-2ETA 2836 | ETA | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1982–present | Current | Automatic day-date movement derived from the 2824 architecture. | 2+3 known | ||
2892-A2ETA 2892 | ETA | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1983–present | Current | Thin, higher-grade automatic date movement often used directly or as a base for modules and branded calibers. | 68+3 known | ||
2893-2ETA 2893 | ETA | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1990–present | Current | GMT automatic based on the 2892 family with an additional 24-hour indication. | 23+3 known | ||
2894-2ETA 2894 | ETA | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1996–present | Current | Modular automatic chronograph using a 2892-derived base architecture. | 0+2 known | ||
2897ETA 2897 | ETA | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2004–present | Current | 2892-family automatic with power-reserve indication. | 0+2 known | ||
6497-1Unitas 6497 | ETA | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1950–present | Current | Large hand-wound pocket-watch-derived movement with small seconds at 9 o'clock in wristwatch layouts. | 3+2 known | ||
6498-1Unitas 6498 | ETA | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1950–present | Current | Sister movement to the 6497 with small seconds at 6 o'clock in wristwatch layouts. | 48+2 known | ||
7001Peseux 7001 | ETA | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1971–present | Current | Thin hand-wound small-seconds movement used in dress watches and later adapted by Nomos. | 52+3 known | ||
7751Valjoux 7750 | ETA | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1986–present | Current | 7750-family automatic chronograph with complete calendar and moon phase. | 12+2 known | ||
C07 / Powermatic 80ETA C07 | ETA | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2013–present | Current | 80-hour automatic family derived from the 2824 architecture for Swatch Group brands. | 8+3 known | ||
H-50ETA C07 manual | ETA | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2014–present | Current | Hand-wound 80-hour movement developed for Hamilton field-watch models. | 33+2 known | ||
Valjoux 7750Valjoux 7750 | ETA | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1974–present | Current | Cam-actuated automatic chronograph that became one of the dominant Swiss chronograph bases. | 95+3 known | ||
Valjoux 7753Valjoux 7750 | ETA | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2002–present | Current | 7750-family automatic chronograph with 3-6-9 subdial layout. | 57+2 known | ||
1304F.P. Journe Chronometre Bleu | F.P. Journe | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2009–present | Current | Hand-wound movement in 18k rose gold used in the Chronometre Bleu. | 2+1 known | ||
1499F.P. Journe Resonance | F.P. Journe | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2000–2019 | Discontinued | Dual-balance resonance movement used in early Chronometre a Resonance watches. | 0+2 known | ||
1150Frederic Piguet 1150 | Frederic Piguet | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1988–present | Current | Thin automatic movement with long power reserve, used in high-grade dress watches. | 6+2 known | ||
1185Frederic Piguet 1185 | Frederic Piguet | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1987–present | Current | Ultra-thin integrated automatic column-wheel chronograph movement. | 0+3 known | ||
9F62Grand Seiko 9F | Grand Seiko | Quartz | Battery | Quartz crystal | 1993–present | Current | High-accuracy quartz movement with backlash auto-adjust and sealed gear train. | 5+2 known | |||
9F86Grand Seiko 9F | Grand Seiko | Quartz | Battery | Quartz crystal | 2018–present | Current | High-accuracy quartz GMT movement with independent hour-hand adjustment. | 4+2 known | |||
9R65Grand Seiko 9R Spring Drive | Grand Seiko | Spring Drive | Automatic | Mainspring | Spring Drive glide wheel | 2004–present | Current | Automatic Spring Drive movement with glide motion seconds and power reserve. | 30+2 known | ||
9R66Grand Seiko 9R Spring Drive | Grand Seiko | Spring Drive | Automatic | Mainspring | Spring Drive glide wheel | 2006–present | Current | Spring Drive GMT movement with independent hour-hand adjustment. | 19+2 known | ||
9R86Grand Seiko 9R Spring Drive | Grand Seiko | Spring Drive | Automatic | Mainspring | Spring Drive glide wheel | 2007–present | Current | Spring Drive chronograph GMT movement with column wheel and vertical clutch. | 10+2 known | ||
9RA5Grand Seiko 9RA Spring Drive | Grand Seiko | Spring Drive | Automatic | Mainspring | Spring Drive glide wheel | 2020–present | Current | Five-day next-generation Spring Drive movement with improved precision and thinner architecture. | 3+2 known | ||
9S55Grand Seiko 9S | Grand Seiko | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1998–2010 | Discontinued | Automatic mechanical caliber that helped restart Grand Seiko mechanical production in the modern era. | 0+2 known | ||
9S65Grand Seiko 9S | Grand Seiko | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2010–present | Current | Modern 72-hour automatic mechanical movement used throughout Grand Seiko Heritage models. | 7+2 known | ||
9S85Grand Seiko 9S Hi-Beat | Grand Seiko | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2009–present | Current | 36,000 vph Hi-Beat automatic mechanical movement. | 22+2 known | ||
9S86Grand Seiko 9S Hi-Beat | Grand Seiko | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2014–present | Current | Hi-Beat automatic GMT movement with independent local-hour adjustment. | 20+2 known | ||
9SA5Grand Seiko 9S | Grand Seiko | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2020–present | Current | Next-generation 80-hour high-beat automatic with Dual Impulse Escapement. | 15+2 known | ||
500Hamilton Electric | Hamilton | Electric | Battery | Balance and hairspring | 1957–1969 | Discontinued | First-generation battery-powered balance-wheel electric wristwatch movement. | 0+1 known | |||
Calibre 11Chronomatic | Heuer | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1969–1980 | Discontinued | One of the first automatic chronograph movements, combining a Buren micro-rotor base with a Dubois-Depraz chronograph module. | 0+3 known | ||
32111IWC 32000 | IWC | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2022–present | Current | Five-day automatic movement used in modern Mark XX and Ingenieur Automatic 40 watches. | 202+2 known | ||
5000IWC 50000 | IWC | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2000–2015 | Discontinued | Seven-day Pellaton automatic movement introduced in the Portugieser Automatic 2000. | 0+2 known | ||
52110IWC 52000 | IWC | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2015–present | Current | Modern seven-day Pellaton automatic movement with twin barrels. | 0+2 known | ||
69385IWC 69000 | IWC | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2016–present | Current | In-house column-wheel automatic chronograph movement. | 50+2 known | ||
8531IWC 85 | IWC | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1950–1974 | Discontinued | Pellaton-winding automatic movement family used in vintage Ingenieur and Yacht Club watches. | 0+2 known | ||
89361IWC 89000 | IWC | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2007–present | Current | Flyback chronograph movement with combined hour/minute totalizer. | 5+2 known | ||
101JLC 101 | Jaeger-LeCoultre | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1929–present | Current | Tiny hand-wound movement famous as one of the smallest mechanical watch movements ever made. | 0+2 known | ||
383JLC 383 | Jaeger-LeCoultre | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | — | Unknown | Manually wound, 498 parts, 54 jewels, 28,800 vibrations per hour, 34.30 mm across and 7.25 mm thick. Built on Jaeger-LeCoultre's Dual-Wing principle: two mechanisms, one for local time and one for the second time zone, each with its own barrel giving 50 hours, sharing a single regulating organ. The travel time reads as jumping hours and minutes in a sub-dial at 10 o'clock, set by push-pieces at 8 and 10 so the hour can be moved in either direction. A globe at 6 o'clock carries a world map ringed by the time-zone indications and a day/night indicator, and the names of the cities for the world's 24 time zones are engraved on the caseback. | 1 | ||
822JLC 822 | Jaeger-LeCoultre | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1992–present | Current | Slim rectangular hand-wound movement used in Reverso models. | 0+2 known | ||
899JLC 899 | Jaeger-LeCoultre | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2004–present | Current | Modern automatic date movement used in Master Control and related JLC watches. | 0+2 known | ||
920JLC 920 | Jaeger-LeCoultre | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1967–present | Current | Ultra-thin full-rotor automatic ebauche supplied to Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, and Vacheron Constantin rather than cased by JLC itself. | 0+3 known | ||
1873Lemania 187x | Lemania | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1968–2021 | Discontinued | Cam-switched hand-wound chronograph base used by Omega as calibers 861 and 1861. | 0+2 known | ||
2310Lemania CH 27 | Lemania | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1942–1968 | Discontinued | High-grade hand-wound column-wheel chronograph base behind Omega 321 and Patek CH 27 derivatives. | 0+3 known | ||
5100Lemania 5100 | Lemania | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1974–2002 | Discontinued | Robust automatic chronograph famous for central chronograph minutes and tool-watch use. | 0+3 known | ||
L688Longines L688 | Longines | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2009–present | Current | Column-wheel automatic chronograph movement developed exclusively for Longines. | 0+2 known | ||
L888Longines L888 | Longines | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2017–present | Current | Exclusive Longines automatic with extended power reserve, derived from ETA A31 architecture. | 0+3 known | ||
8215Miyota 8200 | Miyota | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1977–present | Current | Durable entry-level automatic movement with date, widely used by Citizen and microbrands. | 77+3 known | ||
9015Miyota 9000 | Miyota | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2009–present | Current | Thin premium automatic movement with date, hacking, and hand winding. | 407+3 known | ||
9039Miyota 9000 | Miyota | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2018–present | Current | No-date premium automatic movement popular for clean-dial independent watches. | 370+3 known | ||
9075Miyota 9000 | Miyota | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2022–present | Current | Caller-independent local-hour GMT automatic movement that made true GMT architecture more accessible. | 123+3 known | ||
AlphaNomos Alpha | Nomos Glashutte | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2005–present | Current | In-house/Glashutte hand-wound movement descended from the Peseux 7001 layout. | 12+3 known | ||
DUW 3001Nomos neomatik | Nomos Glashutte | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2015–present | Current | Thin in-house automatic neomatik movement with Nomos swing system. | 33+3 known | ||
DUW 6101Nomos neomatik date | Nomos Glashutte | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2018–present | Current | Thin automatic neomatik movement with quick-set peripheral date. | 16+3 known | ||
1861Omega 1861 | Omega | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1996–2021 | Discontinued | Rhodium-plated evolution of the 861 used in modern pre-3861 Moonwatches. | 0+2 known | ||
2500Omega 2500 | Omega | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1999–2015 | Discontinued | First widely produced Omega Co-Axial automatic family, based on ETA 2892 architecture. | 0+3 known | ||
321Omega 321 | Omega | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1942 | Intermittent | Column-wheel hand-wound chronograph, famous for early Speedmasters and later revived by Omega. | 0+4 known | ||
3330Omega 3330 | Omega | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | — | Unknown | Automatic chronograph running at 28,800 vph on 31 jewels, with a 52-hour reserve and a column wheel driving a three-register layout: thirty minutes at three, twelve hours at six, running seconds at nine, and a date. Co-Axial escapement, free-sprung balance with a silicon hairspring, Nivachoc shock protection, chronometer certified. | 0 | ||
3861Omega 3861 | Omega | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2019–present | Current | Master Chronometer Co-Axial hand-wound chronograph movement replacing the 1861 Moonwatch movement. | 0+2 known | ||
8500Omega 8500 | Omega | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2007–2015 | Discontinued | In-house Co-Axial automatic movement with twin barrels and free-sprung balance. | 0+2 known | ||
861Omega 861 | Omega | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1968–1996 | Discontinued | Cam-switched hand-wound chronograph movement that replaced the 321 in the Speedmaster Professional. | 0+2 known | ||
8800Omega 8800 | Omega | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2015–present | Current | Master Chronometer Co-Axial automatic date movement for mid-size Seamaster and Aqua Terra models. | 0+2 known | ||
8900Omega 8900 | Omega | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2015–present | Current | Master Chronometer Co-Axial automatic with independent jumping hour and twin barrels. | 0+2 known | ||
8914Omega 8914 | Omega | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2026 | Unknown | Automatic with a bidirectional rotor and hand winding, 38 jewels, 60 hours from two barrels in series, 29 mm across. Central hours and minutes only, with the hour hand set independently so a wearer can change time zone without touching the minutes. Co-Axial escapement, free-sprung balance with a silicon hairspring, Nivachoc shock protection, resistant to 15,000 gauss, Master Chronometer certified by METAS and COSC. | 0 | ||
8915Omega 8915 | Omega | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | — | Unknown | The precious-metal counterpart to the 8914, two-tone with a golden rotor and balance bridge in yellow or Sedna gold. The platinum watches carry a different rotor again, with an enamelled 18K white gold Constellation Observatory medallion set with blue aventurine and white opal. The cited page gives no separate specifications for it. | 0 | ||
46943Orient 46 | Orient | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1971–2016 | Discontinued | Long-running automatic day-date movement family used in classic Orient divers and dress watches. | 0+2 known | ||
F6724Orient F6 | Orient | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2016–present | Current | Modern hacking and hand-winding automatic movement with date, used in Bambino and dress models. | 0+2 known | ||
F6922Orient F6 | Orient | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2016–present | Current | Modern hacking and hand-winding automatic day-date movement replacing older 469-series movements in many divers. | 0+3 known | ||
400Oris 400 | Oris | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2020–present | Current | Five-day automatic movement with extended service interval and antimagnetic components. | 0+3 known | ||
P.3000Panerai P.3000 | Panerai | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2011–present | Current | Large three-day hand-wound movement designed for Radiomir and Luminor 1950 cases. | 5+2 known | ||
P.9000Panerai P.9000 | Panerai | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2009–2016 | Discontinued | Three-day automatic movement used in early in-house Panerai Luminor 1950 models. | 0+2 known | ||
P.9010Panerai P.9010 | Panerai | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2016–present | Current | Slimmer three-day automatic Panerai movement with independent hour adjustment. | 8+2 known | ||
215 PSPatek 215 | Patek Philippe | Mechanical | Manual | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1974–present | Current | Small hand-wound small-seconds dress-watch caliber. | 1+2 known | ||
240Patek 240 | Patek Philippe | Mechanical | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1977–present | Current | Ultra-thin micro-rotor automatic used as a base for time-only, calendar, world-time, and perpetual-calendar watches. | 17+3 known | |||
26-330 S CPatek 26-330 | Patek Philippe | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2019–present | Current | Successor to the 324 family with updated seconds and winding architecture. | 28+3 known | ||
28-255 CJLC 920 derived | Patek Philippe | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 1976–1981 | Discontinued | Patek-finished version of the ultra-thin JLC 920 family used in the original Nautilus. | 0+1 known | ||
324 S CPatek 324 | Patek Philippe | Mechanical | Automatic | Mainspring | Balance and hairspring | 2004–2021 | Discontinued | Automatic center-seconds date movement used in many Nautilus, Aquanaut, Calatrava, and Complications models. | 0+3 known |