SLOW WEEK!

  WEEK 76

Pierre Aubert

Origin :Toulouse, France.

Age : 24

Watchmaking class: Fullskill

Current mood: Slow week: Started by drilling the recesses for the shoulders of my bridge screws. I am making special recesses to receive conical screws. My sequences were already ready for further op, but I was a bit tired and decided to do some more mindless work for the week! Thought it’d be smarter than messing up with the school watch! I was able to practice my first hairspring raises to make Breguet curves! It’s really interesting and satisfying! See you next week!

Name: Markus McDonald.
Origin: Stockholm, Sweden. 
Course: 2 years full skill course.
Current mode: This week did not go so well being both disruptive and draining which didn’t help for my exam and preparation.

However I was able to get back to it and I will use the weekend to get into the best condition for the exam next week.  

Michael

Origin : Malaysia

Age : 28

Watchmaking class : 2 years Fullskill Program

Current Mood: Burnishing pivot gauge is very challenging And nerve racking in some stages. Especially when it reaches below 0.10mm. Managed to snap a few on the way to 0.07mm. Making the dome was the nightmare, have to get rid of the burrs in a certain way and not damage your previous work. Looking forward for next week. 

Alex

Origin : Kaohsiung, Taiwan 

Age : 27

Watchmaking : 2Y Fullskill Program

Current mood: Another week has passed. I have been mostly working on my pointed nose vise and have successfully made the both upper and lower piece. The screw is yet to be turned but the design is ready. It will be on top of my check list on Monday morning. 

STEP 1: MILLING! (ALEX)

Alex special design pointed nose vice after milling.

STEP 2: RAISED DOUBLE BEND! (BREGUET STYLE) (PIERRE)

Pierre tried out to raise the double bend like Breguet hairsprings, here is his first trial on a scrapped trial hairspring. 

STEP 3: SCHOOL WATCH! (PIERRE)

Pierre planning the screw recesses.

View of the recess through the microscope in the jig boring machine.

HENRIK's WORDS:

 

This was an easy and calm week, the first one in a very long time! Nothing really new to report back, except Michael learn how to shorten pivots and burnishing the dome at the end of them, Alex progressed well on his pointed nose vice and Pierre learned how to make the Breguet hairspring, he practiced making the double bend raise with special tweezers. Oh! If you like unusual mechanisms and watches go to the Naked Watchmaker, he featured some cool looking old pocket watches from my collection, really awesome photography too! https://www.thenakedwatchmaker.com/  and here you can find some of my watches; https://www.thenakedwatchmaker.com/blog See you next week and have a great weekend!