The web encyclopaedia Watch Wiki is a comprehensive and widespread knowledge platform about the watch topic, especially high class mechanical wristwatches. It is growing steadily. In the meantime it contains many thousand articles / watch models and many thousand watch images, numerous watch videos and a catalogue of watch movements with movement description and images. It comprehends a lexicon with the scope technical terms, watch towns, abbreviations, watch fairs, watch museums, events, auctions, awards, companion, organizations and institutions, watch and luxury trusts and holdings, watchmaker schools, biographies and authors, specialist books, specialist periodicals and magazines in the area of haute horlogerie. It offers background reports about the watch history and its most important personalities.
This kind of watches deserves an appropriate medium of presentation. In contrast to commercial watch presentations (which have their own full justification but nevertheless are and always will be nothing but “advertisment”) and in contrast to the numerous confusing data “dumps” of the internet consequently follows a path of picked out, pointed information.
From the above principles follows directly is only open for aspirants who wish a solid and reliable membership. In contrast to many other wikis we have the following minimum preconditions
(If this is unaccustomed for you, you find a very similar wiki philosophy at the new internet encyclopedia citizendium, which was started as a contrast to wikipedia's anonymity and hidden mobbing structure.)
Registrations can only be undertaken by the main wiki administrator. He inscribes you under your name as a new user. If you like to participate please direct your wish to the address under Impressum. This is also the right contact for all kinds of questions in this context.