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Interesting Watchmaking Courses
There are many Interesting Watchmaking courses being offered by Horological Societies and Watchmaking Schools around the World. What's unique about these courses is that they are being offered by Watchmakers at their workshops for a full immersive experience.
Art de l'Anglage is a specialized Swiss teaching atelier founded by artisan-trainer Alexandra Schmitz that offers dedicated, hands-on courses in the high-end watchmaking craft of anglage (bevelling and polishing component edges). Located in a 60 m² workshop in Les Brenets, Switzerland, the atelier provides individual benches limited to four students at a time to ensure highly personalized, precision guidance.
The Courses Available:
1) 8-Hour Session (Discovery): A single day designed to set up the bench, handle tools, and identify basic component defects.
2) 40-Hour Course (Advanced): A week-long block focused on stabilizing hand gestures, refining edge regularity, and mastering consistent light reflections.
3) 100-Hour Course (Complete Foundation): A comprehensive program designed for a deep technical deep-dive or a serious career transition.
Amplitude HK in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, offers highly rated, hands-on watchmaking courses for enthusiasts and beginners. Founded by French watchmaker Renaud-Louis Chavanis, the studio provides an immersive introduction to horology.
The Introduction to Watchmaking is a 2.5-hour masterclass. You will learn the history of timepieces and dismantle/reassemble a manual-wind Swiss ETA 6497 movement using professional horology tools.
The OISA Lab Watchmaking Course is a highly exclusive, hands-on experience offered by the historic Italian watch manufacturer OISA 1937 (Orologeria Italiana Strumenti Alta). The program allows horology enthusiasts to visit their facility to learn how to make a movement and fully assemble their own mechanical watch.
The course is structured around two distinct pathways:
1) Movement-Only Version: You focus strictly on the horological mechanics. You learn to apply traditional decorations (such as perlage or Côtes de Genève) to the plates and bridges before completely assembling and regulating the movement.
2) Complete Watch Version: You undergo the same movement decoration and assembly process, but the course culminates in casing the movement into a completed OISA 1937 Prestige timepiece that you can take home.
Atelier Le Brézéguet (ALB Watches) offers highly personalized, hands-on watchmaking courses and introductory workshops taught by their master watchmaker, Vincent Candellé Tuheille. Courses are tailored to beginner or enthusiast technical expectations.
A Watchmaking Workshop by Hampden is a premium, six-hour immersive course hosted at Hampden Watch Company's historic headquarters in Chicago. Known as one of the best watchmaking classes in America, the workshop is designed for complete beginners to build, case, and take home their own custom mechanical watch.
The Paul Gerber Uhrenkurs (Watchmaking Course) is a legendary, highly exclusive 3-day practical seminar created by master independent watchmaker Paul Gerber. It offers amateur collectors and horology enthusiasts the rare opportunity to sit at a workbench and hand-finish, decorate, and assemble a customized mechanical timepiece under master-level guidance.
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The Steps:
1) The Base Movement: Participants typically work with a reliable ETA/Unitas 6498-1 base caliber.
2) Customization: You don't just put a kit together; you modify the movement. Gerber designs and calculates custom in-house plates and components. Students replace the standard bridges with a custom three-quarter bridge and balance cock.
3) Hand-Finishing: Attendees spend hours performing traditional haute-horlogerie decoration techniques. This includes anglage (chamfering/beveling edges), polishing steel components, frosting, and blueing screws over an open flame.
4) The End Result: You case up and take home a completely unique, personalized "school watch" that cannot be bought commercially.
The seminar is available in two global locations:
Zürich, Switzerland (The Original Atelier): Hosted directly in the basement workshop of Paul Gerber's family home in the suburbs of Zürich (Bockhornstrasse 69).Taught in an intimate, humorous, and deeply educational atmosphere by Paul Gerber himself alongside his wife, Ruth.
Singapore (International Masterclass): Hosted by the IHT Swiss Watch Atelier in Singapore. This is the first and only authorized location outside of Switzerland. It is taught by Swiss Master Watchmaker Michael Dubs (an Audemars Piguet veteran and personal mentee trained by Gerber to perpetuate the trademark seminar).
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