Week 8, Days 1 & 2 (Wheel Truing and Staking Set)
All day Monday and most of the day on Tuesday was spent with me doing more wheel truing. I am going to go ahead and retract my statement from last […]
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Week 7, Days 3 & 4 (Lecture and Practice with Truing Wheels)
Wednesday and Thursday were pretty intense. It’s kind of like the couple of weeks or so spent working with hairsprings. We had our lecture on Wednesday where we learned about […]
Week 7, Days 1 & 2 (Cleaning and Tool Making)
I don’t have much to say about this past Monday. More strip-downs, cleaning/polishing and re-assembly. Mr. Poye did give me an interesting movement to work on-it was a Chinese made […]
Week 6, Days 3 & 4 (Cleaning and Polishing)
Wednesday was very reminiscent of what we had done at the beginning of the year. I was able to take apart a few watches, get them cleaned and reassembled. I […]
Week 6, Days 1 & 2 (Mainsprings, Polishing, and Cleaning)
This week has been a nice change of pace. Monday, I was expecting to do more hairspring work, but instead got a double lecture on Mainsprings and Polishing. That, combined […]
Week 5, Days 3 & 4 (Forming Breguet Overcoils)
In my last post from last week, I mentioned that we were going to be learning how to form Breguet Overcoils. Well, Wednesday and Thursday of this week was Overcoils […]
Week 5, Days 1 & 2 (Hairsprings and Lecture on Cleaning)
So far, this week has been more of the same from last week. I’ve been doing a lot of hairspring work, specifically focusing on Out-of-Flat bends. About half-way through the […]
Week 4, Days 3 & 4 (More Hairsprings)
Again, another short post. Wednesday and Thursday consisted of more hairspring work. Wednesday was kind of a rough day for me. For whatever reason, my fingers and tweezers were not […]
Week 4, Days 1 & 2-More Hairspring Work (Image Heavy)
Okay, this is going to be a pretty short post due to me having spent the past two days doing more hairspring work. I am still working on the Out-of-Round […]
Week 3, Days 2 & 3-Gaskets & Intro to Hairsprings (image heavy-ish)
The end of this week, was. Awesome. I am not going to skip ahead, but it is safe to say that my education is really getting started. On Wednesday, the […]
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