Crowned Trick

Learn to read a living mechanical watch—chronograph subdials, GMT hands, moonphase discs, tachymeter rims, and dive bezels—before you explain or buy a piece.

Crowned Trick is an offline-first watch-literacy studio for first mechanical-watch buyers, jewelry-counter staff, vintage-fair browsers, and horology-club novices. Tap what you see, then prove you can read it under time.

TAP TO NAME
Every workshop face is hit-tested. Tap a hand, subdial, scale, or pip and the app names it and explains its role. There is no freeform canvas and no watch-construction editor.

28 SEEDED DISPLAYS
Work through an atlas of 28 displays and complications with illustrated callouts: chronograph, GMT, moonphase, tachymeter, pulsometer, power reserve, annual calendar, regulator, jumping hour, world time, retrograde, dive bezel, and tide subdial.

PURPOSE-BUILT LABS
Chronograph — reconstruct elapsed time from 60-second, 30-minute, and 12-hour counters, and build start-stop-reset literacy.
GMT — home versus destination, independent 24-hour hands, and rotating 24-hour bezels.
Tachymeter — convert elapsed seconds on the rim into units-per-hour, with worked examples.
Dive bezel — align the luminous pip and read elapsed versus remaining time against seeded dive cards.
Moonphase — the 29.5-day cycle, northern versus southern displays, and seeded phase quizzes.

EXAMS, NOT A WATCH LOG
Timed counter-staff exams include explanations. High scores measure reading skill, not an owned-watch inventory.

GLOSSARY
Finishing and hand-style cards cover guilloché, fumé, applied indices, cathedral, syringe, and dauphine.

ALWAYS WITH YOU
A daily briefing and home-screen glance rotate a 'read this dial' prompt. TalkBack labels sit on every hand. The catalog is seeded locally and works fully offline—built for the counter and the club night.

Crowned Trick is not a collection inventory, not a servicing diary, not a marketplace, and not a freeform watch builder. It is a studio for reading the watch in front of you.