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sorveltaja:
Really nice workshop, Jere!! I must admit, that drooling is in my mind, when looking the quality of your machines :dremel:.

Bernd:
Thanks for the clarafication Jere. I forgot about pocket watches. I have a couple. I've got one that maybe you could identify for me. I'll take some pics and post them here.

One pocket watch I cherish is the barover I have. Believe that' what they call them. Used by railroad employees. Nice watch.

The wife has several carriage clocks in her collection. Did I mention her hobby is clock collection, 100 and counting. The two I like the most are the Atmos clocks.

Bernd

Jere:

--- Quote from: bogstandard on November 03, 2009, 03:38:07 PM ---There is a major problem here Jere.


--- Quote ---the finished case will be about 60-62mm, so it is a rather large pocket watch
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The pockets in your waistcoat must be massive, and are you taking out a second mortgage to pay for the gold fob chain? :lol:


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Yes, I expect I may have to visit the tailor upon its completion (or take up sewing as well...)  :D



--- Quote from: Bernd on November 03, 2009, 06:03:16 PM ---Thanks for the clarafication Jere. I forgot about pocket watches. I have a couple. I've got one that maybe you could identify for me. I'll take some pics and post them here.

One pocket watch I cherish is the barover I have. Believe that' what they call them. Used by railroad employees. Nice watch.

The wife has several carriage clocks in her collection. Did I mention her hobby is clock collection, 100 and counting. The two I like the most are the Atmos clocks.

Bernd

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I will take my best shot at an identification, there are folks on the NAWCC board that are experts at such things.
That sounds like an impressive collection of clocks!  I restored a beautiful post WWII French carriage repeater/alarm clock for a colleague (at the day job), and had trouble giving it back, it looked brilliant as a center piece to the workbench!

A somewhat embarrassing revelation is that my original impetus into watchmaking was when I realized I could never afford the sort of watches that I coveted the most, and thought about whether it would be possible make such things, after all they're just a bunch of gears and springs, right?  I am being facetious, of course, but I was much younger and knew nothing of metalwork, let alone watchmaking.  I started reading on the subject, and eventually realized that I was more interested in how watches are made than I was in watches themselves, which I imagine this forum is one of few places where that could be understood.



--- Quote from: RobWilson on November 03, 2009, 03:37:22 PM ---Hi Jere
some really fine work  :thumbup:,,,,,,,, i am a big fan of the Harrison chronometer


Regards Rob


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I agree, Harrison's works (and those Englishmen who followed him, Arnold, Mudge, Earnshaw, etc., and much later Daniels)  are the sort of makers and their time pieces that excite me the most, they were pushing the envelope of mechanical timekeeping, by scientific and theoretical methods, creating objects that were both works of art, but at the same time a novel scientific experiment.  When one considers the tools they had to work with, often handmade tools and machines, it is truly amazing. 

raynerd:
Jere - thanks for another insight into your shop. I do very much envy your lovely Cowells 90CW lathe with the added wheel cutting attachment. I was on the Cowells website several years ago and getting very excited about saving up for such a lathe. Needless to say, marrage, kids and a mortgage got in the way. Undetered, I am still moving forward with my Boxford Model A, Asian Clarke cl300m and Chester Conquest Mill. The equipment will surely surfice in my ambitions of firstly making a clock.

Whilest reading your site, it looked like you were using P.P Thornton wheel cutters, have you ever attempted your own single point cutter or are they too small for a watch?

Chris

Jere:
Chris,

I have not yet tried making a cutter for wheel cutting, however, I will need to for the escape wheel, since none exist for the shape I need.  That project is not too far off.
Since I had no experience at wheel/pinion cutting, and cutters were available, I made use of them.  That reduced at least one avenue for potential failure.
They are quite costly, but very well made (PP Thornton) and I expect should last for a long time. 

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