Getting Technical

 

Week 9

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Workshop A

Students:
    Art, Bernd, Cesar, Joan, Louis Lu, Mun, Nine

    Art and Nine have begun the first section of their Technician course, moving from micromechanics and fabrication to ensuring the proper operation of an assembled watch. For the past few weeks, they have been learning how to clean and oil Incabloc jewel settings, assemble and lubricate the winding and setting mechanism, correct wheel flatness, and adjust the endshake and sideshake of the gear train.

 

Checking a wheel for flatness

Art's completed work on the 6498 gear train

Workshop B

Students:
    Craig, Dunham, Ivan, Louis, Sheikh, Varun

    Craig also started the technician course, swiftly completing all the work up through the lubrication and mechanical adjustment of the mainspring barrel.

 

Craig has also been working on his own dial design, experimenting with steel press-fit into brass.

 

Initial proof-of-concept

 

Milling out a template for greater alignment accuracy

 

This week, Louis explored using the pantograph as an easier way to create gear wheels, rapidly milling out eight blanks and cutting teeth into four of them.

 

Thank you for reading!

Hope to see you again next week!