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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

Semester 2, Week 3, Days 1-3 (Crib Toy and ETA-6497)

September 11, 2014by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

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 […]

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Escapement, Pallet Fork, Watchmaking School

Semester 2, Week 2, Days 4 & 5 (Crib Tool, Jewelry Practices, and Tool Making)

September 6, 2014by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

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 […]

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Escapement, Tool Making, Watchmaking School

Semester 2, Week 2, Days 1-3 (More Pallet Forks)

September 4, 2014by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

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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Escapement, Pallet Fork, Watchmaking School

Semester 2, Week 1 (Days 1-3) Shellac, Roller Tables and Pallet Forks

August 27, 2014by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

School is back in session! As is my blog. I really do want to apologize for the lack of updates towards the end of the semester and over my break. […]

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Escapement, Shellac, 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

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