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These courses are conducted at the AWCI Marvin E. Whitney Academy of Watchmaking in Harrison, Ohio. Clockmaker courses can be scheduled by request. AWCI was organized in 1960 as the American Watchmakers Institute (AWI). This was the nation's first unified horological organization.
WOSTEP, the Watchmakers of Switzerland Training and Educational Program, is an internationally recognized professional qualification in the maintenance and care of fine-quality watches. It was devised by the Centre Suisse de Formation et de Perfectionnement Horloger and is sponsored by manufacturers and retailers within the horological industry ...
Entrance to the school. The Lititz Watch Technicum is a watchmaking school located in Lititz, Pennsylvania, and was designed by an architect Michael Graves. [1] [2] The school, founded by Rolex in 2001, was created to help make up for the deficiency of skilled watchmakers in the United States.
Parsons Horological Institute (originally, La Porte School for Watchmakers; also known as Parsons Horological School) was the first horological school in the United States. It was founded in 1886, in La Porte, Indiana .
The Horological Society of New York was founded on March 26, 1866, and is one of the oldest horological societies in the world. [2] [3] A group of German immigrants including George Schmidt and Frederick Ruoff founded the group as the Deutscher Uhrmacher Verein, or German Watchmakers Society, with all meetings and business conducted in that language. [4]
Rebecca Struthers (born 1985 or 1986) [1] is an English watchmaker, historian, author, engineer, and gemmologist. [1] [2] [3] She works with her husband, Craig, who is a master watchmaker. [1] She won the Heritage Crafts award in 2021, presented by King Charles III. She is the only practising watchmaker in the United Kingdom with a PhD in ...
A modern watchmaker at his workstation; he wears a magnifying loupe to more easily see the small parts of a watch A watchmaker's lathe in use to prepare a decorative watch component cut from copper. A watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches. Since a majority of watches are now factory-made, most modern watchmakers only repair ...
Masahiro Kikuno (菊野 昌宏, Kikuno Masahiro, born February 8, 1983) is a Japanese watchmaker and youngest member of Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants. [1] As a child, Kikuno had a fascination with mechanical items. He wore out the owners manual of the family car looking through it at age 2.