Rumour mill ... Ulysse Nardin Blog !

If you to the watch pro forum website here, you can see that someone just announce that UN has a blog too ! How exciting ! It should be quite cool with lots of information and bits about Ulysse Nardin and what they do in the company ...

What we see from our window ...

A regular occurrence from our neighbors .. a vintage F1 car due for some kind of workshop restoration opposite the school ....

Our 2011 student's blog ...

Introducing Thomas White ...

Watchmaking Student ....

Started his adventure in 2011 ....

And this is his blog .... 

http://traadyliooar.posterous.com/

The first fellowship ...

Henrik had a visit from his old student, Mark Cull during his WOSTEP days. Mark needed some guidance on hairsprings and Henrik was delighted to have his old student visit him.

The Master at work with his apprentice ...

Hairspring adjustments 101

Mark, meticulous and intent, on conquering his hairspring ... 

Factory visits !

Well, you can't stay in the school all the time and learn all there is about watchmaking. So, we have started to email watchmaking factories and Independents to request for visits. So far, these are the few brands/Independents we have sent our emails to :-

1. Officine Panerai
2. Thomas Prescher
3. McGonigle
4. Phillipe Dufour

Getting jiggy ...

This high-tech looking machine is our school jig-borer. Here we have Daniel, one of the full skill students, being taught the intricacies of this engineering megalith. By the way, we have a disclaimer ! It looks pretty high tech but this machine is more than 20 years old ! It looks pretty dam cool because of the LCD panels but yeah, this is a grandpa. Make no mistake though. Precision machines like this jig borer aren't made very much nowadays and this was a rare find. 

Anyway, once a student masters the jig borer, he can pretty much do almost every micro-mechanic or precision machining on everything else. Pretty cool because in a week's time, Daniel will be able to make his own main plates, bridges, cases etc etc etc ... the list goes on ...

Our jig borer

Jig boring exercise ... click on the picture to enlarge to see the tiny holes ... they are precise to the micron

Henrik on Daniel ... 

Balance Wheel Support Tool

We have a stock of Balance Wheel Support Tool for sale. They are brass in construction and hand finished with steel screws. Its something which many watchmakers use everyday and its purpose is to support the balance wheel while poising the balance.

Have a look at the demonstration clip to see how the tool is used.

For now, the tool is priced at CHF 30 each. For bulk department orders above 10 pieces, each tool shall be 25 CHF.