Métiers du Temps : L'Horloger - Le Magicien de la Mécanique Miniature.

Qui sont ceux qui assemblent, règlent et réparent le cœur battant de votre KOURA ? Les horlogers ! Armés de loupes, de brucelles et d'une patience infinie, ils manipulent des composants parfois invisibles à l'œil nu. Un métier de passion, où la dextérité manuelle rencontre la compréhension profonde de la mécanique. Chapeau bas !

This Tiny Steam Engine Takes a Watchmaker’s Skill to Build https://hackaday.com/2024/09/09/this-tiny-steam-engine-takes-a-watchmakers-skill-to-build/ #micromachining #steamengine #watchmaker #horology #Carbide #Parts #lathe #steam #HSS

This Tiny Steam Engine Takes a Watchmaker’s Skill to Build - When your steam engine build requires multiple microscopes, including those of the... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/09/this-tiny-steam-engine-takes-a-watchmakers-skill-to-build/ #micromachining #steamengine #watchmaker #horology #carbide #parts #lathe #steam #hss

Omega Speedmaster 145.022

#omega #speedmaster #moonwatch
#watch #watchmaker #horloger #montre

I'm waiting for watch parts to dry, so I'm left to sit here and think a bit. It's a relaxing time, and I am grateful I can do this. Thinking about this Seiko I've been wearing a week or two straight now, and I'm wondering if I'll ever get it to keep anything netter than ten seconds. I know it's asking a lot, but it's a fun thing to tinker with. I've got a large collection of watches but, for the most part, I think I'm losing attachment. This is a good thing, as I can try selling those off if/when I can.

I'll say this, a great way to keep a watch fresh in your collection is to swap bands. It helps adjust the look, feel, and feeling it could give you.

I wonder if I'm doing the right thing, or if I'm good enough, if I even know how to do what I want. It's scary but I need to face these questions and work them out.

Just some of the thoughts while my watch cleaner drones on.

If you have some watch questions, reach out! Maybe I can help.

New toy in! This is used to lift hands off watches with less (I won't say zero) of a chance of damging the dial! Kind of overkill but I wanted to try it out, better to have it and not needed sort of thing. Should help elevate the work I can do at home though!

I think I might be the first person to take this watch apart. Now, to clean it all and lubricate!

"That watch works great, I haven't had it serviced in thirty years!"

Yeah, sure. I'm not saying the customer said this, but I do have people with this attitude frequently enough. I wish I could frame something like this to show every person that thinks their watch is in perfect shape being untouched in however many decades.

What you're seeing here is old oil that has solidified and picked up whatever microscopic bits of debris, and left unchecked this can cause damage to the jewel/pivot. Luckily modern oils last longer and are synthetic so they help keep things in check longer (but still not indefinitely!)

Curious, what's everyone wearing today? Let me see your #watch !!!

I've been working on this special #Seiko and it's up and running great, I even jeweled the barrel arbor to make it extra special. Now, I'm wearing it to get real-world testing to see how well/accurately it runs!

What's your watch? Does it have a story? Just looks cool? Let me know!

Watchmaker at Time’s End (2020) [5 min] by Shaheen Sheriff | #India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEm-25f7M-I

Until I find another trans horologist I am going to claim I am the only trans horologist in the world ... {Clasping my hands and raising them above my head in victory} ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

#watchmaker
#watchmaking
#horology
#clockmakers

Checking in with the boss this morning. He’s happy with the progress I’ve made on the dial this week. The main dial pattern is sorted, and I think we’ve found a sub-dial pattern both of us are happy with. He is concerned with site security with the delivery people who keep showing up. He likes to yell at them from his chair on the lawn.
#insidethestudio #independentwatchmaker #enamel #enamelist #OffHours #maker #guilloché #watchmaking #watchmaker #makersgonnamake #instamachinist #CatsOfMastadon

With all the social media shake ups over the past year, I'm still trying to figure out the best home(s) to share what I do. Instagram is the obvious choice. It has a large user base, is photo and video friendly(ish), and there is a huge watch community.

I like Mastodon, but it feels a lot like sitting in my basement in 1994 compiling a new linux kernel from my slackware CD. I like the vibe but I'm not sure my tribe is here.

When I was installing the privacy film on the door from the shop to the house, the boss insisted I leave a gap at the bottom. He checks up on me from time to time, and is ready and willing to comment on the day’s progress.

Kennst du die Geschichte der anarchistischen Uhrmacher*innen im Jura? Falls nicht, zum Einstieg ein Interview mit Florian Eitel https://www.woz.ch/2328/antiautoritaerer-kongress/saint-imier-ist-weltweit-ein-code-fuer-den-anarchismus/!JQ9STM328YBS

Sein Buch ist auch als Open Access verfügbar: https://www.transcript-open.de/isbn/3931 und sehr lesenswert.

Did you miss "Unrest" (2022) (about #watchmaker|s and the #anarchist movement in #Switzerland) when it was in (few) #cinema|s earlier this spring? Or did you watch it and want so see it again?

Tomorrow Wednesday 2023-05-17 18:30 #SOSETH will screen that #swiss #movie in the HG F 1 auditorium of #ETHZurich in #Zurich. Admission is free. #freeAdmission Details at https://sos.ethz.ch/kinoprogramm