Rosie's Horizon Clock

Another clock design for you to have a look at. My design is very different to James' who has posted below so it's good to have a preview of the variety of clocks that will be on show in 2015.

What's the course like? BCU interview.

The university recently conducted a number of interviews with students to allow people considering the courses a brief insight into what they have to look forward to. You can find the two minute video for horology after the break:

Designing a clock.

This is Just a brief insight into some of the work I've done to work toward my final year clock project. We had this year to do all the design work so we could have everything planned for next year, giving as much time to work on them as possible.

BHI Automatic Watches Course

 Over the Easter break a number of students from second year visited the BHI for a week long (four days for us due to good Friday) course on automatic watches, which looks at both Swiss and Japanese movements. We had John Murphy as a tutor, a very knowledgeable watchmaker who was an excellent (and patient!) teacher! Here's a few photos from the course.

AHS Turret Clock Day at Big Brum

The 'Big Brum' Clock Tower

The Antiquarian Horological Society's Turret Clock Group meet four times a year, and this Spring was held in Birmingham so that members and students could climb the Big Brum Tower in the centre of Birmingham.

Making a Recoil Escapement

This term's project for the second year Applied Studies module was to make a recoil escapement to fit to the mini clocks we made in our first year.  Follow after the break to see the process I followed:

Omega f300Hz service

The Omega f300hz is a tuning fork watch, a technology which preceded quartz. Unfortunately quartz was much cheaper to produce so tuning fork watches were produced for a relatively very short time. I recently acquired one that wasn't working, and so needed to service it. 

Workshop Wednesday 12/03/14

While Jon and Jeremy are busy meeting and interviewing potential students for next year, we have been busy in the workshop!

This week, first years are mainly focusing on their first clock overhaul which had to be a strike mechanism of some kind. Some had a few initial problems with their clocks and Simon is now a 'Re-pivoting Expert', but most are now ticking away and have been for a few days. Second years are either working on portfolios or their pallet project which are to be finished before the Easter holidays.