WEEK 200!

  WEEK 200

Team A

Origin: Sweden, The Philippines & Taiwan

Name: Daniel, Miguel, & David

Watchmaking class: Fullskill

Current mood:

This week David focused on making his brass anvil, Daniel focused on remaking and fine tuning his hand vise and is starting to conceptualize his school watch project and I focused on making my steel angular rule and brass truing guide.

- Miguel

Team B

Origin: Japan/Switzerland & Canada

Name: Tetsu & Dean

Watchmaking class: Fullskill 

Current mood:

This week, (30 January ~ 03 February) Dean & Tetsu continued woking on the barrels, the winding & setting mechanisms, and the gear trains of the mandatory 7 movements. 

There are a lot to check and adjust.

They are at the stage to see, compare, think, adjust and check; which takes a long time. Even with Henrik‘s instructions, it is still not easy to get things right.

Hopefully, after gaining much experience, they will be able to know what should be done when you see parts and components.

In between times, Dean was working on his watches for repair points. So far the serviced watches were showing good results.

Tetsu ventured into uncharted territory this year, and after a few weeks of practice, he was slowly getting used to working with tweezers and screwdrivers.

Still a long way to go, but time is running!

Speaking of time, it is noticeable now that the daytime is getting longer. It is not dark anymore when school starts and it is still light when it finishes. Having said that, some amount of snow falls every day even there are some warm-ish days, so the winter is not over yet.

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:

David and I covered the final topics on watch timing this week. We also practiced dynamic poising and basically getting a proper timing in general by tweaking all factors  involved. Interesting to see how small increments of changes need to be done in the end for fine tuning and what affects what. All work above was done while doing the practice exams for hairspring. Looks like we'll be ready for the final exam next week!

-Renato

Team D

Origin: Finland

Name: Xinying

Watchmaking class: Technician

Current mood:

This week I continued practicing adjustments of Swiss lever escapement. It is going well and I will prepare myself to do first practice test next week.

Xinying 

STEP 1: TASTER COURSE! (VARUN)

We had Varun from India taking the taster course!

STEP 2: THE SWISS LEVER ESCAPEMENT! (ROBERT, FRANCESCO & ÅSMUND)

Francesco, Asmund and Robert learning the final part of the adjustments to the Swiss lever escapement. Here they are practicing on a big model of the escapement!

STEP 3: TOOLS! (DAVID, DANIEL & MIGUEL)

2 basic tools cut out for further refinenemt and finish!

STEP 4: CUSTOM TOOLS! (ROBERT)

Robert made this custom key to wind and check auto barrels! Looks like he learned making square holes!

STEP 5: WATCHES! (ÅSMUND)

Asmund submitted this lovely vintage watch for registration in the system!

STEP 6: GEAR TRAIN! (TETSU & DEAN)

Dean and Tetsu worked on the the going train, dealing with jewel bearings and truing wheels!

HENRIK's WORDS:

 

 

Same old weather as last week with a sprinkle of snow fall! Since the era of Pierre & Harman we have had the same format on the blog and now we have reached week 200!!! thank you for giving the format!! Francesco, Asmund, Robert and Xin continued with the escapement course reaching the final part with notch, horn and guard pin clearance checks as well as learning to set the pallets at the right depth for function, safety and performance, they will begin their first trial exams next week! Daniel, David and Miguel continued practicing machining of tools! Renato and David L. continued learning more about precision timing as well as doing another 2 trial exams! Tetsu and Dean continued with the geartrain truing wheels in the flat as well as adjusting jewel bearings for clearance divisions and endshakes! We also had Varun all the way from India doing the taster course which was nice! It was a very busy but great week! Have a nice weekend everyone!