A beginner watchmaking bench does not need to look impressive. It needs to keep small parts visible, stable, and easy to recover. When you are working with screws, spacers, hands, a crown, or a practice…
The appropriate size watchmaker screwdriver will not resemble a miniature pry bar. When the blade is sized correctly to the screw slot, you will not hear the watch movements; you will not feel out-of-control pressure…
It looks like the hands are so easy and light, until you try them! Then a bunch of things happen at once! The hour hand isn’t level, the minute hand isn’t deep enough, the seconds…
A watch case cannot simply be opened once you’re already on your feet. Before the first movement, you need to clean your workstation, select the appropriate tools, and treat the watch as something vulnerable to…