Week 10, Days 3 & 4 (Staffing Project, Tribology and Lubrication)
Oh man. The staffing project that I mentioned on Tuesday? Well, for whatever reason, I was having a rough week this week and screwed up big time(s). The watch that […]
Oh man. The staffing project that I mentioned on Tuesday? Well, for whatever reason, I was having a rough week this week and screwed up big time(s). The watch that […]
Monday was a pretty good day for me. I was able to get my second group of wheels trued, poised and the balance springs back on. After doing that, I […]
I ended my last post talking about how I received my staking set, and that I was going to be using it for staffing balance wheels (at least for now). […]
In my last post, I went over the process of how to make a winding stem. In this one, I’ll be covering cutting a balance staff out of a wheel, […]
Here is an excellent example of American Watchmaking. It’s a Lord Elgin from around 1939. The dial has obviously aged but the hands looked great; mechanically, the watch had some […]
Thursday, I was able to get the watch back together without any other issues and the oiling went really well. I only had to remove the pallet fork one time […]
Today I had my lecture on how to use the various timing machines we have in class. Timing machines can tell a lot of information about how the watch is […]
I got my final balance wheel poised Wednesday morning. After you finish poising a wheel, you need to put the hairspring back on. It is a relatively straightforward and simple […]
At the end of last week, we had our introduction to Poising lecture. Poising, in essence is manipulating the weight of the balance wheel in order to ensure that the […]