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Week 10, Days 3 & 4 (Staffing Project, Tribology and Lubrication)

July 18, 2014by watchmakingjourney 3 Comments

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 […]

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Week 10, Days 1 & 2 (More Poising/Staffing Project)

July 16, 2014by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

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 […]

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Balance Wheels, Poising, Watchmaking School

Week 8, Days 3 & 4 (Staffing and Truing Balance Wheels) Very Picture Heavy

July 5, 2014by watchmakingjourney 1 Comment

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). […]

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Lathe Lessons pt 5 (Cutting out Balance Staffs, Making a Screwdriver and the Jacot Tool)

July 13, 2015by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

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, […]

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Jacot Tool, Lathe, Watchmaking School

16-Point Check (Lord Elgin)

November 16, 2014by watchmakingjourney 10 Comments

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 […]

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16-Point Check, Lord Elgin, Watchmaking School

Semester 2, Week 3, Days 4 & 5 (More ETA movements)

September 13, 2014by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

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 […]

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Escapement, ETA, ETA-6497, ETA-7001, Pallet Fork, Shellac, Timing, Watchmaking School

Week 11, Day 2 (Timing)

July 23, 2014by watchmakingjourney 1 Comment

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 […]

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Timing, Watchmaking School

Week 9, Days 3 & 4 (More Poising, A few Different Tools)

July 11, 2014by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

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 […]

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Balance Wheels, Watchmaking School

Week 9, Days 1 & 2 (Poising Balance Wheels-Image Heavy)

July 9, 2014by watchmakingjourney 2 Comments

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 […]

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Balance Wheels, Watchmaking School

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