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 […]
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Week 10, Days 1 & 2 (More Poising/Staffing Project)
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 […]
Week 9, Days 3 & 4 (More Poising, A few Different Tools)
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 […]
Week 9, Days 1 & 2 (Poising Balance Wheels-Image Heavy)
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 […]
Week 8, Days 3 & 4 (Staffing and Truing Balance Wheels) Very Picture Heavy
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]
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