Definitions for "Ebauche"
A "raw" or unfinished movement.
an incomplete and unfinished watch produced by one company that was then purchased by anything from a large watchmaking company to a local watchmaker
A term used by Swiss watch manufacturers to denote the unassembled raw movements without jewels, escapement, plating, engraving. The manufacturers supply their ebauches to trade name importers in the U.S.A and other countries who have them finished, jewel
This is the underpainting or thinly painted lay in of lines, broad masses of light and shade, with the halftones of the subject, all considered to be the base of the finished painting. The academic ebauche was normally executed in earth tones from pale creams to dark browns. The Impressionists deliberately avoided the dark ebauche colors, beginning their paintings in bright hues related to the local colors of the subjects they painted.