Cenic Visit

   Week 4

This Friday, the school made a trip to Cenic Watches to peruse their shelves and shelves of watch tools and selection of movements. The owners were helpful as ever, and the visit was full of tempting purchases.

 

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Workshop A

Students:

    Bernd, Caio, Cesar, Guilherme, Joan, Louis Lu

     This week Cesar tried his hand at restoring a cannon pinion from an old pocket watch. The thin walls of the original tube had torn, so he press-fit a new tube into the pinion and turned it to the correct shape.

 

 

Joan continued the technician course, using the jewel pusher to adjust the divisions and endshakes of the geartrain. 

Pressing the center wheel jewel to the correct height

 

Workshop B

Students:
    Christiaan, Craig, Gary, Jaewon, Philippe, Sense    

 

Christiaan and Gary started their introduction fine micromechanics with exercises of turning between centers. This is a method of using the watchmaker's lathe to achieve near-perfect concentricity. They will need to be practiced in this method to make accurate pivots.

 

 

 

Last week, Craig took a short break from his final exam preparations and used the Geneva Stripe setup to make a new variant he devised: Pinwheel Stripes! We may be seeing these on future projects of his...

 

Jaewon began hand-turning on the watchmaker's lathe, finishing one shallow female cone and one deep one.

 

Thank you for reading!

Hope to see you again next week