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

      • Struthers London Struthers London began making timepieces from antique, English made calibers, before branching off into creating their in-house Project 248 caliber
      • Deakin & Francis Located in the same building as the Struthers, this high end cufflink maker is England’s oldest family jeweller
      • Yard-O-Led One of the Struthers’ newest neighbors is high end penmaker, Yard-O-Led, who we spoke about back in Episode 1 of Off Hours
      • British Museum
      • Bonhams Clock Exhibit A historic clock exhibit, entitled Innovation & Collaboration, hosted by Bonhams in London

        • The oldest running clock that Chris has ever seen, from the ‘Innovation & Collaboration’ exhibit at Bonhams in 2018

        • Innovation & Collaboration Book Direct link to the catalogue of the Bonhams exhibit
        • @thewatchnerd Mat, the #watchnerd, on Twitter
        • The #watchnerd Blog
        • Chris Mann Chris Mann, founder of Time 4A Pint, on Twitter
        • Time 4A Pint Official website for Time 4A Pint
        • A Mechanician Seth Kennedy, on Twitter
        • Seth Kennedy Talented restorer of fine timepieces & professional, antiquarian horologist, based in London
        • The Joy of Tangents Episode 19 of Time 4A Pint, with Mat a.k.a. The Watchnerd
        • English Pocket Watches Episode 41 of Time 4A Pint, with Seth Kennedy
        • Refounding Fears Watches Episode 44 of Time 4A Pint, with Fears Watch founder, Nicholas Bowman-Scargill

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          • Omega 2211 An Omega caliber based on the ETA 6498, with alternative bridge layout
          • Sea-Gull ST36 An Asian take on the ETA 6498, with yet another variation on the bridge layout
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