Foundational Clock Repair Skills III is a foundational class that reinforces the skills learned in Foundational Clock Repair Skills I and II. In this course, students will be provided an Indian made eight-day, time-and-strike movement, like the American-made movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. For this course the focus will be primarily on the time side of the movement. This course begins to shift the focus from learning discrete machining skills to the application of those skills in basic clock repair.
Full Study of the Cuckoo Clock
Class Description: The course will be a full four-day study of both modern and vintage cuckoo clock movements, including complete takedown and servicing of cuckoo movements, study of the routines […]
Restoring 400-Day Clocks
Class Description: This class will focus on traditional 400-day/anniversary clocks. The class will do a complete takedown and servicing (General Movement Servicing) of two 400-day clocks. The class will study […]
Foundational Clock Repair Skills II
Foundational Clock Repair Skills II is a foundational class that reinforces the skills learned in Foundational Clock Repair Skills I — including making a wheel hub, spin riveter, dome stake, pusher stake and stump to prescribed dimensions — and pushing those skills forward
Foundational Clock Repair Skills
Foundational Clock Repair Skills is a foundational class that offers to those new to clocks a basic understanding of the most fundamental operations involved in clock repair, restoration, and conservation and to those more advanced a deeper understanding and exposure to different techniques.
Clock Escapement Studies
Class Description: Escapement Studies is hands on class in the construction, science and math as well as the adjustments associated with all types of horological escapements. It is a foundational […]
Retail Jewelers Organization Winter Buying Show 2026
Come see our mobile classroom at the Retail Jewelers Organization Winter Buying Show 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona! Visit AWCI educational staff, learn about the organization’s watchmaking and clockmaking courses, see […]
American Gem Society Conclave 2026
Come see our mobile classroom at the American Gem Society’s Conclave 2026! Visit AWCI educational staff, learn about the organization’s watchmaking and clockmaking courses, see our state-of-the-art Archie Perkins Mobile […]
The 2026 AWCI Fall Symposium
Join us at AWCI Headquarters in Harrison, Ohio for the 2026 AWCI Annual Fall Symposium October 1-3, 2026!!
This year, we are celebrating 66 years of AWCI’s contributions to the horological community. We want to welcome you to our headquarters and spend the weekend honoring the past, celebrating the present, building for the future, and maintaining the growing momentum that AWCI has gathered over the past few years!
AWCI Build a Watch event, Horological Society of Utah
The Horological Society of Utah has the unique pleasure to welcome the American Watchmakers and Clockmakers Institute, and the Archie Perkins Mobile Classroom, for an amazing experience of being a Watchmaker for a day.











