Well those of you who follow me on facebook know that I spent this past week at Swatch Group USA. It was 4 fabulous days acquiring new knowledge. I’ll share all that in more depth as I recover from my cross country voyage and time in the Big Apple. Here is just a quick overview [...]
I had the good pleasure of dining with a fellow watchmaker tonight and, as one might expect, much of our conversation over the evening centered around watches. Those we admired. Those we had fixed. Difficult clients we have had. Our dream watch. That sort of thing. Later on into the evening, while flipping through Guido [...]
I was servicing a vintage Rolex this week when the most peculiar thing happened. I had cleaned and oiled everything and I was making adjustments to the timing. One minute it had a healthy amplitude around 270 degrees but was gaining about 15 seconds a day. I took it off the timing [...]
As I was going through my RSS reader yesterday evening I noticed a post by the FHS announcing the online publishing of the Illustrated Professional Dictionary of Horology. Those of you who frequent the blog’s web page will see it has been added to the links column on the right side of the page. [...]
February 28, 2010 – 8:04 pm
Those of our readers who are well versed in the technical extremes of watchmaking, have likely already noticed that the new masthead we added to the blog a few months ago shows off the tourbillon assembly of a pocket watch (and I bet that those of you who are really astute can even tell me [...]
February 11, 2010 – 8:53 pm
I read a fantastic post on watchprosite about watch servicing, oil degradation, and damage caused to parts in watches. It is two years old, but I was fascinated and you all may want to check it out.
February 9, 2010 – 8:24 pm
I keep coming back to this topic, because it is one that I see nearly every day. You should really keep your watches clean. Besides, the fact that a watch full of body cheese is disgusting, it also causes your watch bracelet to wear out prematurely (I touched on this in A clean [...]
February 6, 2010 – 10:38 am
I was working on a watch this morning that was serviced by another watchmaker within the last two years. The customer complained that the watch was not winding while on the wrist. As it turns out the upper pivots on both reversing wheels and the driving wheel (the major components of the automatic winding device) [...]
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 [...]
February 1, 2010 – 8:05 pm
Friday yahoo declared that watch careers were on the way out: 9 Careers on the way out. They attribute this to cell phone use displacing watch consumers. Too bad the Swiss watch industry exported 26 Million watches in 2008 (the most ever) totaling 17 Billion Swiss Francs, a 7% increase over the previous [...]
