Hi guys,
I wanted to share with the community something that i came across while searching for some cool watchmaking tutorials
It is a series of old school (50's-70's)watchmaking tutorials converted to pdf files, and covers most of the issues we really need to
know as bases to our hobby.This iso cd contains all 35 original scanned tutorials for the "Chicago School of Watchmaking". This school has not existed for a number of years and you can no longer obtain the hard-copies.
Lesson Index – Chicago School of Watchmaking
Lesson 1 Fundamental Principles, Equipment, Casing
Lesson 2 Crowns, Stems, Sleeves, and Bows
Lesson 3 Fitting Watch Crystals and Watch Attachments for Practice and Profit
Lesson 4 Nomenclature and Sizes of Watches
Lesson 5 Mainspring in Watches
Lesson 6 Motor & Jeweled Barrels
Lesson 7 Selecting the Mainspring
Lesson 8 Assembling Watches
Lesson 9 Winding and Setting Mechanisms
Lesson 10 Cleaning Watches
Lesson 11 Timing, Rating and regulation
Lesson 12 Factory Set Train Jewels
Lesson 13 Factory Balance Hole Jewels and Roller Jewels
Lesson 14 Friction Jeweling
Lesson 15 Replacing factory Balance Staffs
Lesson 16 Truing Balance Wheels
Lesson 17 Poising Balance Wheels
Lesson 18 Truing Hairsprings
Lesson 19 Colleting Hairsprings
Lesson 20 The Overcoil Hairspring
Lesson 21 Principles of the Lever Escapement
Lesson 22 Principles of the Lever Escapement (con’t)
Lesson 23 Types of Escapements
Lesson 24 Drawing the Lever Escapement
Lesson 25 Drawing the Lever Escapement (con’t)
Lesson 26 Matching the Escapement
Lesson 27 Tools – Hardening & Tempering
Lesson 28 The Lathe
Lesson 29 Lathe Work
Lesson 30 Lathe Work (con’t)
Lesson 31 Lathe Work (con’t)
Lesson 32 - Part 1 Fitting Hairsprings to Watches
Lesson 32 - Part 2 Modern Shop Methods
Lesson 33 Electronic Timing Machines – Watch Master
Lesson 34 Electronic Timing Machines – Time-O-Graph
Lesson 35 Problems and Solutions
Tools and Materials of the Trade
Hope you find this interesting enough, you can download it here http://www.mediafire.com/?c868g98kneaq4b8