Building a watch from scratch in a Brooklyn basement

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seemaze · 7h ago

While I have the utmost respect and admiration for the fabricating skills and ingenuity employed, building every component “aside from the movement” is akin to building a car ‘aside from the engine and transmission’.

For a soup-to-nuts breakdown, seek out ‘Watchmaking’ by horological legend George Daniels

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Daniels_(watchmaker)

mnmalst · 3h ago

I am watching the linked documentary about that dude. Super interesting!

I find the fact that he also build the CNC machine to manufacture the watches in the first even more impressive.

Direct link to documentary: https://youtu.be/FdT94gXsyoc (12:45 mins)

> "After the first field watch that I built, I was going to make a second one and sort of needed a name for that. And, a little tongue and cheek, I named it the 255, which was the amount that my credit score had dropped since I invested everything."

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Building a watch from scratch in a Brooklyn basement

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