Off Hours

No Longer Mangling Watches

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Chris is back from the British Horological Institute, where he spent a week working on watch movements. He and Jon chat about his time in the UK, the unique things he saw, and the incredible people he met along the way.

  • BHI Short Courses Short watch & clock making courses offered by the British Horological Institute
  • John Murphy Official website of John Murphy (FBHI, Cert. Ed., WOSTEP) who trained Chris at the British Horological Institute
  • ETA 6497
  • ETA 2824
  • Incabloc A cross-section of Incabloc’s anti-shock system, designed to protect delicate pivots in mechanical watches
    • A cap jewel being drawn up into an Incabloc chaton via capillary action
    • Hamilton 992
    • Upton Village The small, English village that Chris called home for much of the time between this episode & last
    • Upton Hall Headquarters of the British Horological Institute
    • Museum of Timekeeping The BHI museum at Upton Hall
    • Santa Fe Symposium An annual conference for professionals in jewellery & related industries
    • Museum of the jewellery quarter A perfectly preserved workshop in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.
    • Birmingham, UK
    • Frank Cooper Senior lecturer at Birmingham City University’s School of Jewellery
    • David Fletcher A brief introduction to 3D printing in precious metal, from David Fletcher of Cooksongold
    • Cooksongold A pioneer in additive manufacturing & one of the UK’s leading suppliers to the jewellery trade
    • Rio Grande Akin to Cooksongold, Rio Grande is of the USA’s leading suppliers to the jewellery trade
    • 3D Printed Watch Case Michiel Holthinrichs’ watch cases for the Ornament 1 are 3D printed by Cooksongold

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