December 28, 2011 – 1:59 pm
St. Paul Technical College has announced the end of their watchmaking program: Why time has run out for Saint Paul College’s Watchmaking Program Apparently details are murky but it seems to me it is a simple matter of economics. Rolex has pulled their funding in support of other schools. Those who wish to fault Rolex [...]
August 29, 2011 – 7:45 pm
Some really neat projects are starting to pop up at Rolex backed watchmaking schools in the States, which include Lititz, OSU, and NSCC. One of the most notable I’ve seen recently is Oklahoma State University’s Calibre 23-11, which is a faculty designed ebauche (rough watch movement) that is finished and assembled by each of the [...]
February 2, 2010 – 8:41 am
Far and away most of the discussion on this blog has centered around watchmaking schools. It seems lots of people want to become watchmakers. Which is fantastic! For those of you looking to talk to some graduates of watchmaking school, or current students you should check out the LWT Students and Alumni page on facebook.
January 28, 2010 – 8:57 am
Ryan just informed me that he posted some pictures of his projects from watchamking school on perpetuelle.com. Check them out at perpetuelle.com. If you would like to see more of Ryan’s work, which looks really good to me, let him know with some comments.
January 26, 2010 – 9:04 am
I recently serviced a watch with a steep learning curve. I guess I though a quartz watch, was a quartz watch. But, alas, they are not! The watch was a Piaget Caliber 8P2. I tested the electronics before agreeing to service the watch because I knew that I was unable to order parts from the [...]
January 1, 2010 – 9:44 pm
Some of our most popular posts here on the blog have to do with watchmaking schools, of which there are very few left in the world. We have done our best to cover what we do know about watchmaking schools and related courses, but we can’t cover all of the bases. So, if you are [...]
September 25, 2009 – 8:08 am
As most of you know, I’ve just started my journey on watchmaking, and I have much to learn. This is exciting and frightening at the same time. It is exciting because I really love watches, pocket watches, clocks and anything time keeping related, and realizing that this is what I want to do for the [...]
While in watchmaking school we worked on a handful of “common” calibers. Our main repertoire included: Unitas 6497 Rolex 1570 ETA 2824 ETA 2892 Valjoux 7750 ETA 955.xxx ETA 926.xxx Lemania 1873 We also got limited exposure to some other modern movements and were responsible for providing other watches in an effort to increase our [...]
I just acquired this fantastic toy! Well, to me it’s a toy. In reality it is a fully functional model of the Kif shock-resistant balance protection system. I love just playing with it. I talked about Shock Resistance before and highlighted a video as well. I suspect this little model was used as a sales [...]
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 encourage [...]
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