Horological Meandering

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...  

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... 

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... 

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... 

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 ... 

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... 

looking forward to part 2...