August 19, 2010 – 7:30 am
If you like the “making” part of watchmaking you’ll enjoy this blog of a student at WOSTEP Neuchatel as he chronicles the creation of his school watch.
Now You Know What I Know
August 16, 2010 – 8:16 pm
One of watchmaking greats, Stanley Simon, who helped found the Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking passed away this past week. You can read his obituary in the New York Times here. The Joseph Bulova School was founded to help train veterans returning after numerous wars to become watchmakers.
August 6, 2010 – 10:13 am
A Course in Wristwatch Repair The Gruen Horological Text and Technical Bulletins. Compiled by Mike Barnett, 105 pages, black and white illustrations.
The Gruen Horological Text was really a joy to read. As a young watchmaker who has been exposed mostly to modern repair techniques, I found it reassuring to know that fundamentals [...]
Gear Cutting on the Lathe
by Laurie Penman. Third Edition, 2006. 85 pgs.
Written primarily for clockmakers, this book goes into excellent detail covering everything you will need to know to cut gears for clocks. The principles for cutting wheels for watchmaking are similar, but performed on a smaller scale. Mr. [...]
The History of Watches
by David Thompson
175 pages Hardcover with full color photographs, Abbeville Press 2008
Showcases the incomparable collection of watches at the British Museum
Includes bibliographical references, index, and glossary.
My father-in-law is the kind of person who, when he is at a museum, reads every plaque about every artifact. If you are like my [...]
In light of the tidal wave of feedback I’ve received in the less than 24 hours since Kello went live on the App Store, I realize that I babied the app too much in testing and that it’s not quite ready for full public consumption. Due to the large number of people who have had [...]
If you happen to have been keeping an eye on the conversation that sprouted from this earlier post regarding the spare parts policies of several brands that sell their products in the United States, you may already be aware that the case for making parts available to watchmakers is being revisted in US courts this [...]
If you haven’t had a chance to look inside the latest copy of WatchTime Magazine yet, I recommend taking a peak. Up until the the past few years, Rolex has kept its manufacturing facilities around Geneva tightly guarded. Journalists were barred from entering its doors for nearly a full century and, up until very recently, [...]
Even the best watchmakers spend time on their hands and knees looking for that elusive lost part. Its inevitable. The average mechanical watch contains 100+ parts and we deal with dozens of them a week. Over the course of a year, we handle hundreds of thousands of parts that are often fractions of a millimetre [...]
The long awaited details from my Co-Axial training at Omega, USA.
First things first, if you haven’t taken the time to look at a Omega’s (Geo. Daniel’s) Co-axial escapement you are in for a treat. The principles of servicing the swiss lever escapement do not apply to the co-axial escapement, don’t try and apply them.
To [...]
