This is the first in a series of six articles, by Maximin Chapuis, a French watchmaker, which takes a look at traditional finishing skills, which are all carried out by…
Two top students at the British School of Watchmaking have won BWCMG prizes for achieving the highest overall grade on the two courses run by the Manchester-based facility. Naïs Hamelin,…
The unit of time (the ‘second’) can now be measured more accurately than any other physical quantity and there has been a tenfold increase in the accuracy of the measurement…
£5m restoration secures Loughborough Bell Foundry’s future John Taylor & Co – the UK’s last traditional bell foundry – has embarked on a £5m restoration project, thanks to Lottery funding and…
Firstly, I’d like to take this opportunity to wish members of the British Watch and Clock Makers’ Guild a very happy new year. Let’s hope we can put the disaster of…
A new commercial trade organisation which will support and promote the British watch and clock making industry on an international level has recently been launched.A new commercial trade organisation which…
So much has happened since I last sat down to write an update on the Clockmaker Apprenticeship – no-one could have predicted Coronavirus and the devasting effects it has brought.…
The second cohort of apprentices will start learning at the Watchmaker Apprentice Training School (WATS) in January 2021. From a successful start, the apprenticeship programme is beginning again after lockdown…
Part 1 - Making the Annulus Wheel I have recently graduated from Birmingham City University with a first class honours degree in Horology. I came to the course with no…
The Guild is to fund a small research project into its formation and history after it was found there was little to no information pre-1930s. Although it is known that…
A functional hand-made military style chronograph – Part 1 Introduction Making watches has long been my main interest in horology and although the repair and restoration of watches has been…
