Black polishing and parts making!

 

Week 43

Last week we had a long weekend where Henrik went to the UK to teach a course on black polishing.

Big Ben

Checking the flatness of the tripod on the tin plate before beginning to black polish.

The normal finish on a setting lever.

A lever piece after black polishing.

 

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Workshop B

Students:
    Dean, Faris, Ivan, Louis, Tetsu, Varun

    This week Dean and Tetsu have started their final exam! They finished their theory exam and will start their 5 movements on monday! Good luck to them!

    This week Ivan and Louis took their winding stem exam and passed!

    Ivan, Louis and Varun learned how to use the pantograph. Afterwards Louis made a new pusher spring for chronograph.

The original broken spring.

The new spring cut out with the pantograph, heat treated and blued.

Red arrow pointing to the new piece placed into the watch.

 

Ivan made a stand for his pocket watch.

 

GUEST STARRING 

Workshop A

Students:
    Amer, Dunham, Daniel, David, Harold, Miguel 

    This week Amer made a new click spring for an omega pocket watch.

Setting up the pantograph.

The drawing guide for the click spring to be made on the pantograph.

The raw cut piece.

 

This week David cleaned and serviced his 8mm lathe.

    This week Harold practiced on the division and endshake adjustment of the escapement, and shellacking of the jewels of the pallet fork.

    Miguel and Dunny took their hour wheel exam! 

COMING UP NEXT...

 

Next week Dean and Tetsu will be doing their final exam and will be working on 5 movements.

 

Best of luck to them!

 

Thank you for reading!

Hope to see you next week!

Busy week!

 Week 42 

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Workshop A

Students:

    Amer, Dunham, Daniel, David, Harold, Miguel

    This week Dunham, Daniel, David, and Miguel all learned how to make the hour wheel. 

Here we are selecting which size cutter to use.

Here Daniel is inspecting the alignment of the cutter blade to the workpiece.

Here is the tip of the cutter aligned on the edge of the workpiece.

First tooth cut

Here is the first wheel we made inspected in the profile projector.

Miguel's own hour wheel after 3 days of practice.

 

This week Amer finished the column wheel chronograph adjustments on his Valjoux 22 movement.

This week David did some black polishing for the screws of his Longines in between practicing how to make the hour wheel.

This week Daniel completed all of his pivot gauges and is now also practicing how to make the hour wheel.

Daniel's hour wheel

This week Harold completed the geartrain exam and began learning about the escapement.

 

 

GUEST STARRING

Workshop B

Students:
    Dean, Faris, Ivan, Louis, Tetsu, Varun

    This week Dean and Tetsu have been preparing for the final exam next week. Everyday they have been practicing, servicing movements, and spending some time with Henrik to go over the theory. 

    This week Ivan and Louis took their winding stem exams and are waiting for the results. Meanwhile Varun took his practice exam for winding stems.

    

COMING UP NEXT

This weekend we will have a 4-day long weekend!

 

 

 

Thank you for reading!

See you again next week! 

Visitors!

Week 41

 This week we had a nice surprise when Martin Kalland, co-owner of Jurmo watches came to visit.

 

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Workshop B

Students:
     Dean, Faris, Ivan, Louis, Tetsu, Varun

    This week Dean and Tetsu are working hard to finish servicing their movements and review for their final exam towards the end of the month.

    This week Faris passed his gear train exam and began learning about escapements. 

Here is a pallet fork Faris is working on. He is extracting a broken guard pin.

    This week Ivan, Louis and Varun have been hard at work practicing how to make complete winding stems.

GUEST STARRING

Workshop A

Students:

    Amer, Dunham, Daniel, David, Harold, Miguel

 

    This week Dunny and Amer started learning how to adjust column wheel chronographs.

    This week workshop A learned how to make polished countersinks and how to black polish screws.

David is using a hardened steel brooch to cut the countersinks on a practice piece.

Daniel is checking the flatness of the screw on the tin plate before polishing.

    This week Miguel made several of the 0.07 pivot gauge to practice how to make the pivots of the balance staff.

 

    This week Daniel practiced making several pivot gauges in different sizes.

Thank you for reading!

 

Hope to see you again next week!

Busy week!

Week 40

 

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Workshop A

Students:
    Amer, Dunham, Daniel, David, Harold, Miguel 

 

    This week was a busy week for the students in workshop A. 

They learned how to shorten winding stems, straighten the crowns and put them together.

 

    Miguel took his pivot gauge exam and finished making all of the required sizes from 0.20 to 0.08mm.

    This week Harold eventually conquered an issue with division and endshake adjustment with the generous guidance from Michael. Harold also did a trial exam.

    This week, Amer finished his chronograph adjustments and timing.

    This week Dunny took his hairspring exam and passed! He also finished his first complete overhaul. He changed the crystal, fit a new crown, adjusted winding stem length, did waterproof testing and did the hairspring adjustments.

 

    This week David finished his balance staff and shortened a winding stem for his Longines.

 

 

GUEST STARRING

Workshop B

Students:
    Dean, Faris, Ivan, Louis, Tetsu, Varun

     This week, Ivan, Louis and Varun learned how to make the whole winding stem and practiced making a few.

    Varun also finished his 4 hand filed squares.

 
Thank you for reading!

Hope to see you next week!