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Timers

December 12, 2015by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

The next step after automatics and calendars was to ease into chronographs. The best and easiest way to do that is to start working on timers. A timer is a […]

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Mechanical Timers, Watchmaking School

Update: Hairspring Vibrated! Also, where I’ve been…

February 14, 2015by watchmakingjourney 2 Comments

As the title of this post states, I successfully vibrated my hairspring! I actually did it about a week or two ago. I wanted to wait until I had finished […]

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Hairsprings, Vibrating a Hairspring, Watchmaking School

16-Point Check (Seiko 11A)

November 15, 2014by watchmakingjourney 9 Comments

Alright, after some thinking and mulling things over, I have decided that for the remainder of the 16-Point Check project, I want to do individual posts per watch upon their […]

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16-Point Check, Seiko 11A, Watchmaking School

Semester 2, Week 8, Day 4 (Regulator Keys & 16-Point Check)

October 18, 2014by watchmakingjourney 9 Comments

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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16-Point Check, Watchmaking School

Semester 2, Week 8, Days 1-3 (Jeweling and Regulator Key)

October 16, 2014by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

When I last left off, I had finished the escape bridge jewel conversion. Since the conversion was successful, the next step was doing a conversion on the main plate for […]

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Jeweling

Semester 2, Week 7, Day 4 (More Friction Jeweling)

October 11, 2014by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

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 […]

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Jeweling, Watchmaking School

Semester 2, Week 7, Days 1-3 (Friction Jeweling)

October 9, 2014by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

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. […]

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Jeweling, Watchmaking School

Semester 2, Week 6, Days 4 & 5 (Short Update-Hairsprings and Hand Tools)

October 4, 2014by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

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. […]

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Hairsprings, Tool Making, Watchmaking School

Semester 2, Week 4, Days 1-4 (ETA-7001, Int 1980 and more)

September 19, 2014by watchmakingjourney Leave a comment

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 […]

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Escapement, ETA-7001, Hairsprings, Int 1980, Pallet Fork, Shellac, 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

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