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Philippe DuFour explains watchmaking techniques that are almost forgotten
Greubel Forsey is financing Philippe DuFour to produce a film to record for posterity: watchmaking techniques that slowly are being lost, slowly are fading from memory. So that generations to come, people will have a recorded lesson, on how to do these steps of watchmaking.
Philippe DuFour shows us what he is going to be doing in his workshops for this film. He would like to share his knowledge and translate to the next generation what he knows, focusing on the most traditional handcraft, traditional ways of building a watch. Learn more about this art of watchmaking.
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Watch dials: Making a watch dial explained by Jeff Kingston
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Jeff Kingston visits Rubattel & Weyermann in La Chaux-de-Fonds. This specialist manufacturer of watch dials was integrated into the Swatch Group in 2002. There are no standard ways of how to make a watch dial. But one thing you can say for sure is, that it is complex with very many steps: 40, 50, as many as 70 steps to arrive at the finish end product - the dial. We show you some of the princip...
Breguet: Guilloche Dials explained by Jeff Kingston
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Jeff Kingston visits the guilloche dial workshop at Breguet in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland. Dial making is one of watchmaking greatest specialties in the history of watchmaking and guilloche dials are a specialty within that specialty. To watch it being practiced, is to take yourself back 200 years in time, because the methods and the machines being used have their routes back that far. I...
Jaeger-LeCoultre: Casemaking of the Jaeger Reverso explained by Jeff Kingston
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We know that not all watch shapes are round. Some have complex shapes like the Reverso of Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso. Jeff Kingston visits Le Sentier in Switzerland and meets Stéphane Belmont of Jaeger-LeCoultre. He will take us through some of the steps of the casemaking of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso. There are many additional kinds of operations that have to be done to make a case as complica...
Watchmaking School: Visiting the Ecole Technique at the Vallée de Joux
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Jeff Kingston visits the Ecole Technique at the Vallée de Joux in Le Sentier, one of five watchmaking schools in Switzerland. What does it take to become a watchmaker? What is the curriculum? We get a guided tour through the Watchmaking School and see some of the different stages of the 3 year curriculum that the students follow to become trained as watchmakers, qualified to work for a watch co...
Breguet: Restoring historical timepieces of Breguet
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Jeff Kingston visits Breguet in Switzerland. We have the unique opportunity to learn more about historical timepieces of Breguet. When you talk about Grande Complications you are talking about the greatest challenges in watchmaking, and for a modern watch that is certainly true. But for a watch made 200 years ago the challenge is even greater. That is what is undertaken at Breguet in the Grande...
Patek Philippe: A visit to the Patek Philippe Museum guided by Jeff Kingston
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Jeff Kingston visits the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva. The video shows particular timepieces of the Patek Philippe Company. There are over 2,000 watches in the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva. It may be there’s another museum in the world with more timepieces - that’s in the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Watch and Clock Museum - but nowhere in the world will you find a collection this rich,...
Audemars Piguet: Assembly of Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Grande Complication
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Jeff Kingston visits the Grande Complication Workshop of Audemars Piguet in Le Brassus where the Grande Complications are assembled. He shows us different stages of assembly of the Royal Oak Offshore Grande Complication that debuted at the SIHH in Geneva in 2013. We will get to see different elements and how they come together, such as parts of the Perpetual Calendar, dials, hands and the casin...
Jaeger-LeCoultre: Tourbillon watches explained by Jeff Kingston
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Jeff Kingston visits the workshop Jaeger-LeCoultre in Switzerland. Specialty Tourbillons - that’s the subject of Jeff Kingston's visit to the Grand Complications Workshop of Jaeger-LeCoultre in Le Sentier in the Vallée de Joux. It’s where the four different generations of tourbillons unique to Jaeger-LeCoultre are made. The Gyrotourbillon 1, the Gyrotourbillon 2, and the Gyrotourbillon 3 - each...
Blancpain: Assembly of the Blancpain Carrousel Minute Repeater
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Jeff Kingston visits Blancpain watches in Le Brassus. Expand your knowledge about watchmaking and Blancpain watches. Blancpain is the oldest watch brand in the world. Its workshop has been in the family, since 1860 when Louis Elisée Piguet found it as an abandoned mill above Le Brassus and made it one of his workshops for Grand Complication. That tradition continues today, because Grand Complic...
Blancpain: Assembly of the tourbillon into a wristwatch
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In this video a watch-maker takes the tourbillon components itself and brought to running order. As well he’s going to be putting it into the watch in to its permanent position. The visit concludes with a glimpse into one of Blancpain’s métier d’art workshops and the engravings that won the French prize called the Meilleur Ouvrier de France.
Blancpain: Particularities of Blancpain’s tourbillon
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Blancpain is the oldest watch brand of the world and seated in Le Brassus, Switzerland. When it constructed its first tourbillon decided to take some risks and bring some innovation into the construction. Which ones will be explained in the following video.
Blancpain: The difference between a tourbillon and a carrousel
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Blancpain is unique in the world of watchmaking as it is the only house which has mastered the art of placing a carrousel in a wristwatch. Carrousels were originally conceived to defy gravity and the associated rate errors when the watch is in a vertical position. In this way, carrousels are like tourbillons. But watch connoisseurs often get confused in trying to understand how carrousels and t...
Blancpain: How a tourbillon works
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Blancpain is the oldest watch brand of the world and famous for its tourbillon. There is a core idea behind Blancpain’s tourbillon that lay behind the invention that was patented by Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1801. This video is going to explain the very idea.
Blancpain: How Blancpain’s carrousel was found
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Blancpain is unique in the world of watchmaking as it is the only house which has mastered the art of placing a carrousel in a wristwatch. Carrousels were conceived to defy gravity and the associated rate errors when the watch is in a vertical position. How did the idea of this component come up? A Danish watch-maker working in Coventry England wanted to do something similar but also avoid the ...
Long Version: Blancpain - Tourbillon and Carrousel
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Long Version: Blancpain - Tourbillon and Carrousel
Zenith: Assembly of the Academy Georges Favre Jacot movement
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Zenith: Assembly of the Academy Georges Favre Jacot movement
Zenith: History of Zenith’s fusee and chain
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Zenith: History of Zenith’s fusee and chain
Zenith: How Zenith’s fusee and chain work together
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Zenith: How Zenith’s fusee and chain work together
Long Version: ZENITH WATCHES - Watch movements explained by Jeff Kingston
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Long Version: ZENITH WATCHES - Watch movements explained by Jeff Kingston
Hublot watches: How to produce carbon fiber and texalium?
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Hublot watches: How to produce carbon fiber and texalium?
Hublot: Why can you change the straps so easily?
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Hublot: Why can you change the straps so easily?
Hublot: Transforming carbon fiber: How Hublot cuts their watch cases
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Hublot: Transforming carbon fiber: How Hublot cuts their watch cases
Hublot: Finishing touch: Carbon fiber cases get polished
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Hublot: Finishing touch: Carbon fiber cases get polished
Breguet: Characteristics of Breguet’s Tradition Minute Repeater Tourbillon
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Breguet: Characteristics of Breguet’s Tradition Minute Repeater Tourbillon
Breguet: How the winding of Breguet’s La Tradition Tourbillon works
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Breguet: How the winding of Breguet’s La Tradition Tourbillon works
Breguet: Breguet’s sound check of the gongs in a minute repeater
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Breguet: Breguet’s sound check of the gongs in a minute repeater
Breguet: Assembly of a tourbillon
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Breguet: Assembly of a tourbillon
TAG Heuer: The Oscillating pinion and the column-wheel working together
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TAG Heuer: The Oscillating pinion and the column-wheel working together
TAG Heuer: Assembly of a movement
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TAG Heuer: Assembly of a movement

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  • @allanmunken
    @allanmunken 9 днів тому

    How much does a studie cost pr year to go on the school 😊

  • @88BlueKeys4U
    @88BlueKeys4U Місяць тому

    About the most concise and clear explanantion of these two main gravity defying escapement designs, very eloquently presented and easy to understand. Thank you! I do have a few 'tourbillons' in my small watch collection, but apparently still lack the "carousel" type, must hunt one down. Can't afford the shown watch, which features both drive trains in one calibre. But one does not need to spend 5+ digit amounts of Dollars to enjoy the fascinating motion of these rotating drive trains. I found the Asian movements from PTS, Seagull and Hangzhou quite entertaining, at very low cost. Yes, they tend to fizzle out earlier than Swiss movements, due to complex gearing, material, tolerance and friction issues. Yet I do not wear my tourbis on a daily basis, rather enjoy different watches and complications on my wrist every other day. Not shown here are other 'rotating' movements I found on the market: my rare and weird PTS1201 rotates itself once every 12hours, and there is an 'orbital tourbillon' calibre that rotates the entire movement including the watch face once every 60min. All these rotating mechanisms make NO SENSE at all on a wrist watch anyways, since the watch itself is constantly in 3D motion. It never experiences the constant gravity effect on vertically worn pocket watch drives. Breguet had to fight the real 'gravitiy demon' back then in the 18th century..

  • @vinnier6
    @vinnier6 Місяць тому

    The 02 superseded this movement

  • @RestorationWatch
    @RestorationWatch 2 місяці тому

    The lathe I saw was a low tech vintage design. What a backward education. Chinese watchmaking schools are using 21st century equipment with microscopes and high tech measuring equipment. I now see why Swiss watches are not as accurate as early to mid century American watches, and why Grand Seiko do make the ultimate movements that have been streets ahead of Swiss movements since the late 1960s. I witnessed the epitome of pomposity on display in this archaic teaching establishment. Making a movement and designing a movement are two entirely different disciplines. A Chinese watchmaker learns CAD, CNC machining, and a myriad of manufacturing skills. Here they learn to make a completely out of date, yet beautiful trinket where art and innovation are nowhere to be seen.

  • @johnrieley1404
    @johnrieley1404 5 місяців тому

    Excellent explanation, you have helped my understand my Chinese single axle tourbillon, thanks, and I liked with nice large animation.

  • @birdshenanigans8506
    @birdshenanigans8506 6 місяців тому

    Get on with it...

  • @tevya017
    @tevya017 6 місяців тому

    Partly explains the high cost of quality watches.

  • @lmark8612
    @lmark8612 6 місяців тому

    What an amazing video! Thank you so much!

  • @LCGrant-ne5se
    @LCGrant-ne5se 6 місяців тому

    Time is a dead god Thoth 🌹🌚👍 Rest in the good news 🌹 okay bye

  • @eugeneholling6828
    @eugeneholling6828 6 місяців тому

    still not as beautiful as a 200 year old chain watch

  • @smithoxford3332
    @smithoxford3332 6 місяців тому

    I’m interested

  • @osamu_90
    @osamu_90 7 місяців тому

    Modern technology has come so far so it'll be interesting to see how dials will be made 10, 20 years from now. For example, the friction press: precise CNC machines nowadays can easily replicate those complex date window shapes that are "impossible to achieve". Both exciting and a little sad to think that automation will continue to replace beautiful, manual work.

  • @dmitrijsmohoviks1567
    @dmitrijsmohoviks1567 8 місяців тому

    Such a masterpiece! The video reveals the details of such an intricate and rare element like fusee in a great quality. It deserves much more attention! Thank you. ⚙️👍

  • @guillocheenamel
    @guillocheenamel 8 місяців тому

    Nice video and school. Can we learn the Grand Feu enameling at any watch making school? Anyone knows about it?

  • @guillocheenamel
    @guillocheenamel 9 місяців тому

    Nice video, thanks for sharing!

  • @veritasvita5672
    @veritasvita5672 9 місяців тому

    these watches are too big

  • @behemothinferno
    @behemothinferno 9 місяців тому

    This is like porn for mechanical engineers. Too good!

  • @MrFantasypl
    @MrFantasypl 10 місяців тому

    So many safety issues

  • @brandheadlights
    @brandheadlights 11 місяців тому

    Excellent video and explanation!

  • @brandheadlights
    @brandheadlights 11 місяців тому

    Great video!!!

  • @jorfedgonbol
    @jorfedgonbol Рік тому

    Greatly well explained

  • @Umam635
    @Umam635 Рік тому

  • @user-uf3ht4hq9h
    @user-uf3ht4hq9h Рік тому

    Does a tourbillon make a watch more accurate?, more reliable?, easier to service? Lets face it, a tourbillon is as necessary as a Bugatti 16 cylinder engine in a Kia Forte. The toubillon is just a bragging right. It's an absolutely superfluous add on that does nothing other than become something to worry about if there is a problem. Silly toy, nothing else.

  • @terrellma
    @terrellma Рік тому

    Fantastic explanation. I understand why there is a Gyro version after watching this. Being able to explain extraordinarily complex concepts in ways that people understand is a rare gift.

  • @braddusenberg2827
    @braddusenberg2827 Рік тому

    What's the purpose of the piece you're putting on at 07:53 ?

  • @ulrichfriehe3459
    @ulrichfriehe3459 Рік тому

    Hats off to this wonderful, innovative company; very interesting to watch and listen to the descriptions.

  • @kailashsohun5694
    @kailashsohun5694 Рік тому

    Having a problem with mind the watch is working slowly and I have change the battery

  • @user-cl5uo2zc3b
    @user-cl5uo2zc3b Рік тому

    It would have been helpful if you would SHUT UP so we could hear it play!

  • @oscargarciaramires4
    @oscargarciaramires4 Рік тому

    BUENAS TARDES DON OSCAR

  • @AlexKarasev
    @AlexKarasev Рік тому

    Yeah, but can it get spam texts like iwatch?

  • @johnnyarsenault9124
    @johnnyarsenault9124 Рік тому

    Very good video!👌❤️

  • @mustafabhatti5893
    @mustafabhatti5893 Рік тому

    Good Job Great Performance 👍❤️

  • @mustafabhatti5893
    @mustafabhatti5893 Рік тому

    Great job 👍

  • @mustafabhatti5893
    @mustafabhatti5893 Рік тому

    Good 👍

  • @m4rvinmartian
    @m4rvinmartian Рік тому

    Thank you.

  • @pjdarcy
    @pjdarcy Рік тому

    1:42 made me laugh out loud. The narrator says "... for one man to do the entire dial" and a woman immediately turns around to glare at him

  • @pjdarcy
    @pjdarcy Рік тому

    Wow! So much detail and craftsmanship! I can't believe they build it, test it, and then disassemble it completely just so they can clean it! Amazing

  • @c.t.m729
    @c.t.m729 Рік тому

    Love the metal tweezers...metal on metal is nice. Especially for sensitive parts.

  • @Yasser.Abuharba
    @Yasser.Abuharba Рік тому

    Didn’t know that they use pre-preg carbon.

  • @watchesarts.5599
    @watchesarts.5599 Рік тому

    ua-cam.com/video/SiSwWRT2i2s/v-deo.html

  • @willythewitch
    @willythewitch Рік тому

    Put this watch to tour de france

  • @rameshjainani2868
    @rameshjainani2868 Рік тому

    Titanium is most often heard in aerospace technology. It being used for a watch is just priceless. Love the alarm in a wrist watch and gold used to its timepiece. Just wish i can afford to buy one for my wrist.

  • @Carlentinesexclusives
    @Carlentinesexclusives Рік тому

    Lovely

  • @beshkodiak
    @beshkodiak Рік тому

    Thank you. I am a young amateur horologist, that is to say: a 71 year old forest dweller who is fascinated by these little engines and enjoys working on them. I have recently acquired a couple of antique fusee watches, with the intent to restore. I enjoyed your video.

  • @Carlentinesexclusives
    @Carlentinesexclusives Рік тому

    Lovely

  • @greaterbayareahero1401
    @greaterbayareahero1401 Рік тому

    TBH I think the Reverso made 30-40 years ago are better than the newer reversos. It's a pity since I like JLC.

  • @MohammedAli-nu7fs
    @MohammedAli-nu7fs Рік тому

    Tag is really nice ❤️ brand I love it

  • @JimIBobIJones
    @JimIBobIJones Рік тому

    Finishing looks noticeably rougher on the "01" than the original 1887 movements.

    • @vinnier6
      @vinnier6 Місяць тому

      Keep in mind you are watching a class and the movement being used are for training purposes

  • @brizzell2101
    @brizzell2101 Рік тому

    That last bit no we can't see that we cannot see that at all