Summertime

 Week 24

The warm weather of summer has arrived! Long pants are exchanged for shorts and workshop windows are flung open.

 This week, the school welcomes another new student: Gary from Canada. He is starting the 2-year Fullskill course and already has many ambitious plans.

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Workshop A

Students:
    Art, Bernd, Cesar, Joan, Louis Lu, Mun, Nine

    Art and Nine continue their progress in the technician course, working on aligning the pallet jewels in the escapement to achieve the minimum locking that is still fully safe.

 

A tooth of the escape wheel secured against the locking plane of the pallet fork entry jewel

Art is nearly complete with the work; preparing now for the Escapement exam.

 

Cesar also spent this week working in the field of pallet alignment, but rather than the pallets themselves he repaired  the tool used to measure and depth the jewels.

 

The broken jaw and its replacement

 

Workshop B

Students:
    Craig, Christiaan, Gary, Philippe, Sense

    

This week Christiaan, Gary, and Philippe learned how to use the profile projector to take very accurate measurements of work pieces.

Christiaan has a look at the image displayed on the projector

Craig also began work on adjusting pallet fork jewels, but found time to practice polishing the 0.1mm bevels for his watch dial.

Clean and sharp, even under magnification

Thank you for reading!

Hope to see you again next week!