In our Level 3 Watch Making Exploration remote workshop we guide you through the important skill of lubricating watch movements. We have adjusted our in-person curriculum to give the best experience and the highest likelihood of success and we guarantee you will leave with a better understanding of mechanical timepieces.Įxplore Watchmaking - Level III Lubrication (Coming Soon) We want everyone to succeed in disassembling and reassembling the watch movement, but we can't reach through the computer screen to help you out. Once you receive the classroom kit, you will join a live digital classroom with no more than 5 other participants and will be able to ask questions. We provide most of the tools and materials and guide you through the process of establishing a temporary workshop in your home. The remote workshop is taught by one of AWCI's certified watchmakers using the GoToMeeting platform. You will learn the names of the basic components, their function, and how all of the components interact. In our Level 1 Watch Exploration remote workshop we help you disassemble and reassemble the gear train of a hand-wound mechanical watch without having to leave the comfort of your own home. Watchmaking / Clockmaking Schools (REC)Įxplore Watchmaking - Level I Basic Assembly.Please feel free to support traditional true hand made watchmaking at its highest form in the United States of America. You can follow the progress on our instagram and social media avenues. Spitz Watchmaking is launching its first haute horology caliber J11.13 completely designed and built from A to Z in his atelier after more than 3 years of research and development. The future push forward of American Watchmaking via Haute Horology and Daniel A. He Is Quiet but They Find HimĬNN / Great Big Story has done a wonderful short biography on Daniel A. He is a watchmaking speaker who has spoken for the WOSTEP curriculum at their schools. There are ways you can help support this mission so feel free to contact us. The goal is to get these young Watchmakers on their way to being independent American haute horlogerie creators, while giving them the ability to utilize rare vintage watchmaking machines they would be accustomed to if schooled in Switzerland, but located here in the United States of America. ![]() His new atelier for movement creation will expand in the future to be able to hire a small number of young traditionally trained Watchmakers. Traditionally trained watchmaking is now surging in independence and a very viable job area for those who can excel in working alone, and are driven. He is a Watchmaker for other Watchmakers.ĭaniel believes in open source watchmaking and is doing his best to help spread the knowledge before it’s lost to the current trend of robot machining to finished part. The equivalent of the Oscars for Watchmaking. Spitz also holds the prestigious Swiss title of being nominated for the GPHG (Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve) member. He has extensive knowledge of vintage time pieces. Mr.Spitz was also a ghost builder for many brands, did consulting on parts longevity of new calibers coming to market for Chopard such as the 4 barrel LUC quattro caliber, as well as other major brands. He was taught by the courses creator Antoine Simonin in Switzerland. He holds a 4 year watchmaking degree from the Bulova school of watchmaking and has received the scholarship, and graduated from, the most prestigious traditionally trained watchmaking school on our planet, WOSTEP, in the heart of watchmaking, Neuchatel, Switzerland. He has owned and operated three restoration and after sales service centers specializing in pre 1960’s mechanical complicated timepieces. He held these same positions for Leviev watchmaking for 5 years. ![]() He is the former head Master Watchmaker of Complications Specialist and instructor for Chopard, North and South America, as well as being the creator of all teaching courses for other watchmakers. ![]() He just had a viable way to somehow repair what others gave up on. His childhood bedroom resembled piles of torn apart mechanical and electrical devices from not only his father’s giving, but most of his neighbors. He remembers sitting on his Grandfather’s lap in his watch and jewelry store in the Catskill Mountains of New York when he was eight years old staring at the inside of a Patek Philippe in amazement. Spitz is a third generation Master Watchmaker. You see he is an American that headed down a path toward the most covertly guarded secrets of Swiss high horology, to be unmasked into his hands.ĭaniel A. In the small Swiss haute horlogerie community one might view Daniel A.
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