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 […]
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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 […]
Week 3, Day 1-Crowns
Today will be a short post today since we didn’t have class on Monday (Memorial Day). The first half of the day was spent with watch movements. I spoke with […]
Week 2, Days 3 & 4
Week 2 (Days 3 & 4) I am starting to sense a pattern with classes. Monday was working on watches. Tuesday was a lecture. Wednesday was working on watches, and […]
Week 2, Days 1 & 2
Monday was a continuation of what I had done last week. It was tearing down and re-assembling movements. Again, the whole point of the exercise is getting used to the […]
Watchmaking School Days 3 & 4 (very image heavy)
*Note about Today’s Post* I have a lot of pictures that I took. A lot. Close to 200. They are all the same thing (step by step tear downs of […]
Watchmaking School Days 1 & 2 (Image Heavy Post)
A quick statement: Since I am using this space to document my journey to becoming a watchmaker, the nature of the content is going to evolve along with me. My […]
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