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Omega-Q
·You, sir, have a very steady hand! Thank you for sharing your always informative posts!!!
Watchmaker's lathe...some recent work
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ExpiredWatchdog
·It's just done with skill and practice
Thanks for the reply. Somewhere down the road I'm sure I have a watchmaker's lathe in my future; probably some skanky old model with bent collets and missing the ones I need. But that is amazing that you can hold those tolerances by eye and feel. Makes me think I need one sooner than later.
Just so I can try!
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Sidreilley
·Amazing work! Just out of curiosity, is there any reason not to use 7075-T6 for this, outside of not having it on hand? I don’t see much use of aluminum on watches and wondered if there’s a reason.
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerAmazing work! Just out of curiosity, is there any reason not to use 7075-T6 for this, outside of not having it on hand? I don’t see much use of aluminum on watches and wondered if there’s a reason.
Not really. Aluminum is not a traditional watchmaking material really.
There were some watches in the past with aluminum cases, but those didn't tend to hold up well.
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Waltesefalcon
·I had no clue that Westclox ever made a watch that nice. As a kid I had several of the cheap dollar pocket watches.
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerI had no clue that Westclox ever made a watch that nice. As a kid I had several of the cheap dollar pocket watches.
Dollar watches seem to be what they are best known for, but they certainly made other watches that were of better quality.
