Little excursion

 A fun week this week. We were all invited by Nicolas from Cenic watch parts for some pizza over at his lovely store. He had received some new tools and watches, which we are all excited to see. We had lunch together outside with plenty of pizza to go round. It’s always great visiting his treasure trove of a shop, thank you Nicolas!

Some happy students 

Marvelling at his watches

A unique school watch minute repeater

After a day of pizza, we were treated to a day of cake! It being Kaio’s birthday we sang and ate. 

Onto Kaio’s work, making his way through the start of the micro mechanics, he’s finishing up the shapes of his tools before the continues with the more detailed work.

Tools coming along 

Guillerme is doing some restoration work on the Jacot tool he just bought from Cenic. One of the runners was missing a cap, so he turned and sawed one for a seems fit.

Existing and new caps 

Sens is here learning how to find leaking spot on a watch case. He used the water pressure tests to find that the case failed the test, then used the leak finder to isolate the leak.

Craig is pursuing some side quests, doing a full overhaul of a lovely Valjoux 23, an iconic chronograph.

Very sexy

Here is Joan’s radioactive dial.

As for me, I’m doing some experimenting on making frosted dials. Slowly making progress, but it’s nice to see that I’m heading in the right direction.

That’s it for this week! 

Until next time