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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 17
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 17

by Mark Frauenfelder
February 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
8h 28m
English
Make: Community
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Teaching Time

The nation’s premier watchmaker’s college, in the heart of Amish country.

[BY ERIN KELLY-PARK]

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CLOCKWISE: Ficklin assembles and lubricates a cleaned watch. A watchmaker’s tools: Tweezers, hand installers, pin vises, movement holders, hammer, truing caliper, aperture plate, etc. Some of the 220-plus components of a Rolex wristwatch movement.

Photography by Ryan Heffernan

Twist the crown of a mechanical watch and you’re winding a tiny spring, which powers a gear that runs until the spring is completely unwound, some two days later. ...

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