Semester 2, Week 8, Day 4 (Regulator Keys & 16-Point Check)
I finished up my regulator key project on Thursday right before lunch. I have to say, if I am ever in the position to where a key needs to be […]
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Semester 2, Week 7, Day 4 (More Friction Jeweling)
When I left off on Wednesday, I had just finished friction jeweling and adjusting end-shake of jewels from a working watch. The very last thing I did that day right […]
Semester 2, Week 7, Days 1-3 (Friction Jeweling)
This has been a great week so far. I finished up the hairspring adjustments on Monday. All in all, that was a pretty good project that I just wrapped up. […]
Semester 2, Week 6, Days 4 & 5 (Short Update-Hairsprings and Hand Tools)
Thursday was a good day. I did spend the day doing more hairspring corrections-I think I ended up doing the 6 watches about 3, maybe 4 times throughout the day. […]
Semester 2, Week 6 (includes week 5), Days 1-3 (Hairspring Corrections)
Two weeks ago, when I last left off, I was talking about how my watch was potentially timed. I am happy to report that it was timed very well. The […]
Semester 2, Week 4, Days 1-4 (ETA-7001, Int 1980 and more)
Monday was a pretty good day for me. I was able to get the ETA-7001 fully disassembled and cleaned without any issue. It is definitely a nice movement, one that […]
Semester 2, Week 3, Days 4 & 5 (More ETA movements)
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 […]
Semester 2, Week 3, Days 1-3 (Crib Toy and ETA-6497)
Monday and part of Tuesday, I finished up my work with the crib toy. When I left off last week, I was just getting started with the roller jewel and […]
Semester 2, Week 2, Days 4 & 5 (Crib Tool, Jewelry Practices, and Tool Making)
I finished up my pallet arbors on Thursday. The process for doing that is relatively straight forward, in that you just need to reverse the process. You place the now […]
Semester 2, Week 2, Days 1-3 (More Pallet Forks)
Monday was a pretty good day. I spent most of the morning finishing up my shellac work on my pallet forks. I was pretty much finished with my shellac job […]
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