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I once saw the parts list of in-house vs out-sourced
Don makes or modifies 64% of ALL the movement parts used (by item count). Of course, the proportion by value count or machining time would be more relevant and higher.......it's a secret .....shhh.
That's pretty good considering that everybody uses specialists for the common items like spirals, sapphire glass and jewels etc.
Way to go....Don!
Potential owners: Please form an orderly queue outside my office; I'll take orders for a really individualised watch by Don!
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The Making of the Dresdener Regulator, Part 1 of 4
Please click here for Part 2 Please click here for Part 3 After interviewing our self-taught watchmaker-cum-Moderator, Don Corson last September ( click here to access) to find out what inspires and motivates him to hand-make his own watches, we feel a co...
Thanks for the step by step report Kong
It's fascinating to see a work-in-progress and can't wait to see the decoration report. Question for Don, the drilling machine you use to drill 101 holes, is this machine hooked up to a computer so it drills the holes for you? Or do you manually adjust th...
Positioning
I do the drilling on my milling machine. It has an XY table so it is no problem to position the holes if you take some precautions. For my first watches the positioning was by hand, now I have added CNC to the machine. The computer control needs to use th...
CAD Software
I found this post really interesting! I would like to try a similar project I and have searched for suitable CAD software. I'm quirius to what you are using and if it comes with a library of movement parts or if one has to define every wheel/toohing etc b...
Fantastic post, an inspiration to all who aspire
It can't be understated just how rare people like Don are for even attempting this, to make their own watch- let alone succeed. I myself have wanted to do this for years, but have been trapped in place so remote so as to have no hope of tools. Perhaps in ...
Turning & jewels
Hi Ophiuchus, Working on the face place with the workpiece off center there is, of course, some unbalance when turning. But the turning speeds are pretty slow and in general it doesn't cause a problem. Note also that although there is often talk of all th...
Facinating. I would love to see how the wheels and gears are produced (stamped?)..
looking forward to part 2...
