SURPRISE WEEK!

 WEEK 111

Willy, Yuriy, Alex, Michael

Origin : Singapore, Canada, Taiwan, Malaysia 

Watchmaking class: Technician & Fullskill 

Current mood: It is another busy week. Michael and Alex are working on the 7 movements for the final timing as well as full assembly including all the complications. A very interesting process to say the least. In the mean time, Willy and Yuriy takes on the final exam. Fingers crossed that they pass with flying colors!!

Renato & David

Origin: Zug, Zürich, Switzerland

Watchmaking class: Fullskill

Current mood: David worked on the female cone and finished all other press fit parts. Later on he worked on the poising plate tool and finished the V shaped cut. I had a milling week this week. Did a test piece to practice the milling to be done on the 8mm brass anvil tool. Did it later on on the real piece and it turned out fine. Many steps involved and having an exact milling plan upfront is highly recommended to avoid any mistakes. Especially on this piece that contains many steps, manual ones, milling, jig boring... very easy to make a mistake on the milling machine or in the calculation. Also milled a deep hole through Yuriy's Bergeon 3007 collet reaming tool, so he has full visibility from the bottom of it. Plenty of milling, cool week!

Name: Markus McDonald.
Origin: Stockholm, Sweden. 
Course: 2 years full skill course.
Current mode: This week I worked on two things, firstly the poise error for the 6498 to improve the timing. Secondly the 7750 specically three stages. Initaly assembly and disasembly, this went well being different than the other calibers due to the chronograph module, then oiling initally just the chronograph section and then the entire watch and lastly repeating the whole process several times to improve and also improving small details and quality such as the approach to disasembly, oiling and cleaning.

This went well as my understanding and skill for the 7750 improved a lot making it an intense week but also good.

STEP 1:  OMEGA! (ALL) 

Amazing visit! a must for anyone interested in watches!

STEP 2:  BOOKS & DVD's! (RENATO) 

HENRIK's WORDS:

 

Still raining off and on! Same as last week. However, this week had some pleasant surprises!  First of all, we went to Herrli in Bienne ones again and as always got really good stuff, I got a monster case-back opener which is extremely stable and rigid, have never seen anything on this level before! I cleaned it and tried it out on a very hard to open titanium case, it opened the case-back without a struggle whatsoever and made no mark at all! I also got a very rare antique handmade Breguet double bend tweezer and a bunch of NIVAROX 2 quality hairsprings for my stock, I got all of it for a very friendly price, Thank you Maurizio! As a surprise one of my former students dropped in as well, we go way back to the olden and golden WOSTEP times, probably around 2005-2006 or so, I had him in the refresher course and have not seen him for a couple of years or so, he now works in Omega, and recommended us to visit the Omega Museum as we were only 10 minutes’ walk away, what a great idea! it was surely a surprise high light of the day, especially for me who never visited before and Omega is also one of my favourite all-round Swiss watch brand as I used to work a lot with their watches in the past which is always a joy and happen to still work with their vintage movements today! Enjoy the pics from the museum visit! I highly recommend anyone to visit it, it’s really nice!! As a bonus I also got my movement with a really nice, almost mint porcelain dial which I love the vivid colours of, will probably make it into an interesting project as the movement is really nice! Will post some pics of it ones I get time. Willy and Yuriy finished their final exams for the technician course, we hope they will both pass! Really super week it was!! Have a great weekend everyone!

STEP 3:  TWEEZERS! (HENRIK) 

Got these really cool Breguet tweezers from Herrli in Bienne among many other things, Thank you Maurizio!!