horology evening class/club anyone

fret_wimp2

I know this has been discussed a few times before on the forum, but its always finished with pointing to online courses etc.

Just wondiring if any of the more skilled members of the forum would be interested in teaching an informal horology workshop?

I dont know much about how any of my autos work, and although i will always get them professionally serviced/repaired, id like to be able to take a crack at my cheaper watches that may not be worth spending 100+ quid on servicing?

From my limited research what anyone interested would need:

- a cheap automatic they dont mind damaging. lots of seiko 5's on the bay for , 50 quid.
-set of tools. a few good sites and i priced a start kit at roughly 100 quid.
-location with decent lighting.
-someone to walk us through dismantling a watch who knows what they are talking about.

Its worth seeing if theres interest at least, and if its possible that someone has the skill and interest in teaching in such a course.

Menas

This is something I am interested in. But I have taken a longer route.

I have started off with old clocks (late 1800s to early 1900s). To date I have serviced four of them. By serviced I mean stripped down to component level, scrubbed in meths, cleaned all parts in an ultrasonic cleaner, dried and reassembled and then oiled with clock oil. The clock case and face goes thru a different process.

There is a thread in here showing pics of my first two.

The only tools I had to buy was the ultrasonic cleaner, special from Aldi! I bought a good book that helped too.

I plan to do some more and then move on to learning about how to do watches (the principles are the same, but more tools needed etc). But not sure my shaky hands and bad eye sight will allow me to be successful at this. Also the escapements seem tricky.