September 24, 2008 – 6:54 pm
Sometimes I wish watches had black boxes in them like airplanes. I saw a watch today that had been serviced 18 months ago with a bent seconds hand post. The hand was pointed up at the crystal and the watch was stopped. The crystal has large chips in it and the bezel is [...]
September 22, 2008 – 6:57 pm
By now you have probably seen this video, especially if you are interested in watches, but just in case here it is. With a grasshopper escapement designed by John Harrison and a simple but unique movement this is a pretty cool clock. I’ve been sent this video by my brother, a flash programmer, [...]
September 18, 2008 – 10:16 am
Two weeks ago I attended the wedding of a good friend from watchmaking school, who also happens to be a fellow co-founder of Alliance Horlogère. At the reception afterwards, I sat with another great friend of ours who is also a watchmaker. As might be expected, the conversation throughout the evening drifted in and out of what we’ve [...]
September 18, 2008 – 6:54 am
So I finished my first week of classes and almost done with my second. It’s been a whirlwind of information that’s still processing through my head. Last Monday, I had no clue how to file properly! Our first project was an Anvil/Pusher Holder. This project pretty much teaches us the basics of what’s to come [...]
September 16, 2008 – 8:00 am
Historically watch calibers were designated by size. The French system for measuring sizes is the ligne. A ligne is equal to 1/12th of an 18th century French inch. The american system is simply “size.” In the American size the 0 size measures 1 5/30 inches and each size larger or smaller [...]
September 10, 2008 – 4:44 pm
My name is Tony and I have officially started my journey to become a professional watchmaker. I’ve become a contributor to this blog because I was accepted into the Lititz Watch Technicum just like J. Peter. This will be my first blog ever, and I’m not quite sure how this goes but I’ll try my [...]
September 10, 2008 – 3:11 pm
I had the pleasure of getting a look under the hood of Omega’s vintage chronograph calibre 321 for the first time this week and was duly impressed. Predecessor to the now classic calibre 861, which earned its place in the history books as the movement which ran in the famed “First Watch Worn on the [...]
September 10, 2008 – 7:16 am
As a watchmaker in a retail store I get lots of interruptions. I am called upon to size bracelets on newly sold watches (and other watches too), change power cells, answer customers technical questions, fix computer problems, and a myriad of other things. Sometimes the interruption is welcomed, other times it is not.
If your [...]
September 9, 2008 – 9:29 pm
At first glance it may look like a pin vise but it is much much more. It’s a minute wheel post cutter. Tighten it down around a cylindrical post and rotate it and it shaves off around the circumference of the post, reducing its diameter.
It’s designed to help you bush a worn minute [...]
September 8, 2008 – 7:47 pm
That’s right that terrible problem that was supposed to occur on Midnight of January 1st, 2000. Our computers were all supposed to crash and it was going to cost our country millions of dollars. Well nothing became of it then, but it is a problem.
Today I changed the battery in a digital Seiko [...]
