crown wheel
English
Noun
crown wheel (plural crown wheels)
- In watchmaking, an object of circular shape with contrate teeth, which meshes with the winding pinion and with the ratchet-wheel on the barrel-arbor used to wind-up the watch, respectively, to set the time.
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