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Description:

In the mid 1950's, the Chicago School of Watchmaking offered a distance learning course called "Master Watchmaking." It consisted of a binder of 700+ pages of lessons developed with the aim of training individuals to gain the necessary technical skills to work as master watchmakers and master repairers of watches. This course is now available to the general public in its entirety, as an unabridged PDF on a data DVD. The material is 719 pages in length and is extraordinarily technical in nature. It was truly intended to bring a layperson into the trade and give them the training necessary to work at the master watchmaker level.

You will need a computer with a DVD drive to open the content on the disc. It is a scan of the original 1952 book in PDF format - the exact contents that was offered in 1952. This disc can only be opened on a computer DVD drive - it will not work in a television DVD player.

You can extract the files to your computer or other devices, and the contents of the 719-page manual can be searched by word or phrase. It can also be printed, if you so desire. The PDF is also indexed so that you can jump to any of the 35 lessons with a click of a button.

There are 35 lessons with the manual and hundreds or photographs and technical diagrams to accompany the specific skills being taught.

The lessons are as follows:

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 - 58 Page booklet

This is a phenomenal manual on watchmaking, now offered in its entirety. Please feel free to message with any questions or inquiries.