ICELAND & HAIRSPRINGS!

 WEEK 184

Team B

Origin: Japan/Switzerland & Canada

Name: Tetsu & Dean

Watchmaking class: Fullskill 

Current mood:

This week, (10~14 October) having passed their exams successfully, Dean & Tetsu continued producing mandatory extra 3 winding stems.

No time limit was required, but the quality must be higher than the exam pieces.

Also making one from blued steel has been set as another project.

Dean took this opportunity as one of the restoration work, which will be added to his repair points.

Tetsu tried the same way as his exam piece to feel and understand the difference between the materials.

They are hoping to finish all in a good shape within a reasonable time scale, and getting into the next step; pivot gauges!

We wish you all a nice weekend! 

Dean & Tetsu

Team C

Origin: Switzerland, Norway & USA

Name: Renato, David, Francesco, Åsmund & Robert

Watchmaking class: Fullskill 

Current mood:

Francesco- This was a week that contained some time spent on a special school project, as well as continuing with the current curriculum of introduction to watch movements: Winding and setting systems, and the Incabloc shock-protection system.

Åsmund- This week was close to a carbon-copy of Francesco's, putting the winding and setting systems into various watch movements, and dis-assembling, cleaning, oiling and re-assembling Incablocs.

Oiling these involves putting a drop of oil onto the center of a flat jewel about the size of the letter "o" in this article, then placing that jewel on top of another jewel in a setting, and placing a little spring about the size of a capital letter "S" on top of that.

Robert- I would only be repeating an explanation of the week of Francesco and Åsmund as above. I did do the dis-assembly of an escape meter I acquired, I want to make sure the internals are in good shape, then might do some finishing on the outside to embellish it a little bit.

We are currently getting rain, too early for snow. Gorgeous weather when we have a dry day.

-Robert

STEP 1: HAIRSPRING COURSE! (GUDRUN)

We had a watchmaker all the way from Iceland who took the hairspring course!

STEP 2: SHOCK ABSORBERS! (ÅSMUND, FRANCESCO & ROBERT)

Robert, Francesco and Asmund were servicing shock absorbers!

STEP 3: HAIRSPRINGS! (GUDRUN)

Gudrun tweaking hairsprings!

STEP 4: WINDING STEMS! (TETSU)

Tetsu working on some final winding stems!

STEP 5: ESCAPEMENTS! (RENATO)

Renato working with escapement adjustments!

STEP 6: SCHOOL WATCH! (FRANCESCO)

Francesco continued with his school watch work!

STEP 7: WINDING STEMS! (DEAN)

Dean was working on his winding stem for his Omega!

STEP 8: CANDY! (EVERYONE)

Gudrun brought some typical Icelandic candy for everyone to enjoy! 

STEP 9: DEMAGNETIZERS! (RENATO)

Renato got himself a bit larger than usual demagnetizer!! 

STEP 10: LE LOCLE! (EVERYONE)

We were all greeted with this amazing sky on Thursday morning!

HENRIK's WORDS:

This week we had Gudrun from Iceland taking the hairspring course and as she was the only one in the course I could adapt the content exclusively to her needs! She works together with Robert Michelsen who was my student way back when I was in WOSTEP and later worked as a teacher together with me as well, small world! During the hairspring course for Gudrun, Michael took over the Fullskill class to guide them with incablocs, winding and setting mechanisms as well as giving advice to David and Renato regarding the checking of the Swiss lever escapement adjustments! Dean and Tetsu continued with their final winding stems as well! It was a very enjoyable week! Have a great weekend everyone!