Third Year

THIRD YEAR

The third year in the finnish school of watchmaking consist  of more advanced manufacturing techniques and smaller more advanced watch technology such as automatic watches. as well as assigments in watch technology, material physics, electronic studies and courses in computer aided desing and milling, the third year of the micromechanic course also includes designing and manufacturing a course watch and a 2 month internship in some industrial company where each student has to design and manufacture some advanced mechanical or eletronic assembly for the company in question. these projects are usually classified and cannot be published, as was the case for my internship as well.

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Making of the course watch case.

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modyfing a clone of a 6497-1 movement as a practise for the upcoming course watch.

the whole modifying fo the movement was done in the course of 8 hours from start to finish

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Making of the radioface and Mechalight prototype

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­on the two month internship I manufactured

a part of a device  that uses magnetism to detect faults

in large steel bolts, I cannot disclose any more information

about this device since it is classified as a company secret.

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picture of the copper wire that I worked with, under the wire is my hair. the copper wire is about 0,08 mm in diameter, and has about one third of the pull-strenght of human hair, so it is really brittle