Creating a Watch: Reverse Engineering

Cameron Weiss, master watchmaker and founder of family-owned Weiss Watch Company, dives into watchmaking in this new series,
Creating a Watch. A multipart series that will guide you through the creation of a fine timepiece step by step. Including details like designing and reverse engineering watch components. The history of watchmaking is rich with developments from from past watchmakers. Keeping the art of watchmaking alive is important to me and a big part of why I became a watchmaker. Subscribe to make sure you see every episode of Creating a Watch.

[thomaseickhoff]

Just love your videos. Informs me, surprises me – and it calms me down. Keep up the great presentation, Cameron.

[SOPHIAFLYGIRL]

Cameron, the music you use is timeless, soothing and sounds eerily familiar even though I've only heard it a handful of times. Love these videos. I'm making a career change to Professional Watchmaking and one day I'm sure our paths will cross.

[PushaDee]

What's the model microscope you are using.

[maximumsavage]

I was racking my brain how you created a rotating bezel with hash marks and numbers that align with the corresponding dial points.

Especially since it is an integrated bezel and not an insert.

For example, did you struggle with the font spacing? I would imagine it must have been a struggle. Also, indexing where the click begins and ends...

It must have taken a lot of work.

[marmstrong]

How bad I wish I had access to your shop...I recently reverse engineered a SW300 using a used Telecentric lens and microscope camera. Came out well enough but struggled a some of the larger bridges.