February 26, 2009 – 10:28 pm
Those of you follow this blog closely will be aware that Prem C of
February 19, 2009 – 8:59 am
Russian Watch Lover left a comment about my review of a Vostok watch I serviced. He asks what I would recommend for a mechanical watch under $100.
Don’t get attached to it. When you buy a mechanical watch for under $100 you should expect it to be only moderately accurate (within 10 or 15 seconds a [...]
February 18, 2009 – 5:43 am
I know I just posted about the one year anniversary but I couldn’t resist noting this milestone. This week marked the 100,000 page view of watchmakingblog.com from over 40,000 visits. We now have 265 subscribers. How cool is that? It’s amazing the reach a couple of watchmakers who want to share [...]
February 17, 2009 – 6:46 am
By request I give you some of the simple tools I have fashioned myself. I’m kind of a spoiled watchmaker because I had to buy lots of really nice tools when I started school. Because of that I haven’t had to improvise a lot of tools but here are some of what I [...]
February 13, 2009 – 8:56 pm
Some of the most common questions I get from readers of this blog are related to watchmaking school, what the admission process is and how they can become a watchmaker. This is exciting for me because there is a great need for watchmakers and one of my reasons for maintaing this blog is to [...]
February 12, 2009 – 7:05 am
I have read about people using glue to make their watches water resistant on a number of occasions and have even heard of the odd watch repairer using it in their daily practice. I am all for using Seiko glue or UV cured epoxy et al to seal a crystal and Loctite to secure pusher [...]
February 11, 2009 – 2:39 pm
An article in Make Magazine about watchmaking and the Lititz Watch Technicum featuring myself will be hitting newstands March 10th. My blog was featured in a teaser for the article last week and I want to welcome all of you Make readers who stuck around and subscribed to my blog. I try and [...]
February 11, 2009 – 2:34 pm
Quite some time ago I wrote about a watchmaker’s tools. It was a post which started my series of Tuesday’s Tools posts. The gist is that my tools are like an extension of my body.
This week I have re-discovered how true this really is. I had to switch to a new oiler and this new [...]
February 10, 2009 – 8:44 am
Probablly not, but I bet you want one.
Our friends at watch site perpetuelle.com are currently running a contest until April 2nd where you can win an Omega Speedmaster Date (retail $2,980) simply by: 1)signing up to their site, 2) visiting this forum, and 3) starting a new discussion topic which includes a photo of your [...]
February 9, 2009 – 4:16 pm
This article puts what I do into an entirely different perspective. I strive for watches to be accurate within a couple of seconds a day. These guys make clocks that if they had been built during the big bang would still be accurate to within a second.
Super Clocks
It’s a good thing [...]
