Restoration and Wheel Making Course with KHWCC in Le Locle Switzerland

This is a great collaboration class with Henrik Korpela and the team at KHWCC in Le Locle Switzerland.   The link is for the registration for the class and the described tour.   You will need to make your own travel arrangements to Le Locle.  You can extend before or after the class to make a longer visit as you wish.  Travel instructions will be included to Le Locle with registration.  A recommendation of accommodations will also be given with registration.   There will be a visit to a local tool supplier and a visit to the watch museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds Saturday Morning!

We are thrilled to offer this summer course in collaboration with
AWCI – American Watchmakers and Clockmakers Institute

For this watchmaking experience, you will not only learn a lot of Henrik’s tricks
but also  get the opportunity to visit a tool supplier and visit  the prestigious
international watch museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a true jewel.

Date:                                          7 – 11 August 2023
Place:                                         KHWCC,  Le Locle, Switzerland
Teachers:                                  Henrik Korpela, principal & instructor
Michael Lau, instructor
Tuition fee:                              CHF 1500.-
Teaching language:           English
Pre-Requisite:                   Watchmakers
Enrollment:                        click here to apply

This is a specialized practical restoration course introducing the participants to techniques and various machines and instruments practical to the watchmaker wishing to learn restoration and part making, it includes the following but is not limited to:

Option 1: Making an hour wheel; setting up the lathe for wheel cutting, including turning the stock to size, drilling the central hole, turning the tube, cutting the wheel teeth, parting off the wheel, removing burrs and adjusting the diameter of the tube, finishing and electroplating.

Option 2: Making of a flat steel movement part such as a yoke, setting lever spring, return to zero hammer for a chronograph etc., including learning how to reproduce a new one from taking measurements with the profile projector and designing a new one.

Introduction to manual machines and how they can be used in restoration or part making such as the pantograph, jig-boring machine, Schaublin 70 lathe with centring microscope, milling and dividing heads, profile projector/optical comparator; learning the use of this machine for quality control, measuring, various uses in restoration such as designing a new part for an old watch.

The course includes the necessary theory for each exercise.

Please indicate preferred option 1 or 2 when applying for this course as the preferred option you choose will be emphasized more during the course.