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This summer i am going to Gem City College and taking watch making and repair and then after that i’m taking jewelry. just wondering is there a high demand in this field and also can a person make good money on it. i want to do this because it interests me and i love doing it.

Nice JM Jarre inspired music!

Why is it very cheap compared to other swiss handmade watches??

Don’t kid yourself, even the most prestigious watch firms of today still use machinery to cut and form most of the parts.

The assembly and fine tuning is done by hand.

Where as with a great majority of “high end watches”, they simply replace a few screws, time it, pop their name on it and call it done.

Nobody really makes watches “the old way” anymore.

I know many high end brands use cam/cad and cnc machining. Not to say all. But saying nobody is doing the old way is wrong.
Guys like Roger Smith, Philippe Dufour, Gerber, and Vyskocil do it the old way… But they are not the only ones, many of the AHCI watchmakers and clockmakers do it, and several others!

But the price tags are many times higher than the more expensive swiss brands, like JLC, PP and VC. And because of the productions methods, and the fact that they are made by hand, makes them almost invsible, in count, to the millions of watches produced by the swiss industry as a total.

sounds like so many ppl farting in the music

it IS Jean michel jarre. Equinoxe I think… but not sure. Great.

Valjoux 7751 movement straight off the shelf

Fuckin music.Like watching movie on Mars.

totally agree!

thank you! every video i went to didn’t show how to hand make it or anything
nor did Google,or ask it was driving me crazy,
and I’m 15

that’s not handmade. better not use misleading titles. completely handmade movement requires custom plates and not just finishing a mass-produced piece of shit.

where do you buy the parts like just a regular watch or like the g shock how do they make them or get the parts

Not handmade and the music sounded like I was watching a movie about aliens instead of watches

Thats right. Nobody hand makes watches. What a spoof.

I find it that smart people are able to make complicated algorithms that ultimately create computers such as game systems, laptops and calculators, but I find it extraordinary when a person is able to make a watch or clock using nothing but gears that was crafted by tools in great precision in like the 15 or so hundreds. It’s like how Ancients were able to find the exact distance of all the planets when normal humans can’t even see all of them, but they know it’s there. These things I love.

X-Files called, they want their music back

george daniels makes them solely by hand….

@GRAFHC If Invicta is what you consider high end, I agree. Most high end companies I know use the brass stamped ebauche of an ETA along with the gear train and perhaps the jewelling. The balance and escape wheel along with the mainspring and barrel are custom made by their watchmakers. Most independent watchmakers I’ve heard of source the jewels and balance springs. A fully guilloche decorated dial is made by machine, but it’s a master craftsman operating it.

@leapinglanmann Try looking up Bart and Tim Gronefeld. They’re just two of the many independent watchmakers hand crafting their own creations.

@chrisorama01 ive sourced parts on ebay many times. cannibalised one to repair another. ive built my own wristwatches. just lack certifications ahh well an education will help there. these timepieces are quite gorgeous. in my opinion

@GRAFHC: Actually, there ara a handfull of highly skilled watchmakers who still make watches “the old way”.

Nice work with creating your own watch brand, but I can’t approve how you handle the finished and cleaned movement with your bare fingers. You’ve broken the first rule of horology.

@yoyobran Yes it is or 7750