Many watchmakers make their drills from sewing needles, say No.
Many watchmakers find that their drills cut well for a certain distance and then refuse to work altogether, and one of the chief reasons is that they are in too great a hurry with their drilling.
Many watchmakers reduce the temper of every staff before drilling.
The majority of watchmakers use what is termed the pivot-gauge, a neat little instrument which accompanies the Jacot lathe, and which may be obtained from any material house.
I have assumed that you prefer to work in this way because I have noted the fact that nine watchmakers out of every ten start with, and first finish up, the lower portion of the staff.
Some watchmakers introduce the extreme point of the drill into mercury first and then plunge into the wax.
Clockmakers and watchmakers very soon specialized when the correct standard had been reached, and further inventions effected economy in mechanism rather than drastic changes in principle making for further exactitude.
In 1783 a company of Swiss watchmakers came to Ireland, and establishing themselves near Waterford, termed their settlement New Geneva.
The watchmakers of Nuremberg were renowned throughout Europe.
Darwin notices thatwatchmakers and engravers are liable to be short-sighted, and that short-sight and long-sight certainly tend to be inherited.
This unnatural partnership is well understood, both by watchmakers and husbands.
He mentioned the brothers Joseph and Francois Devacht who worked as watchmakers and instrument makers in Gallipolis, Ohio.
Ham--worked as watchmakers in Portsmouth in the same period.
So long as this method could hold its own, the English watchmakers led the world; their watches were good, but they certainly were not cheap.
It grew very slowly at first—in 1687 having only one hundred watchmakers with three hundred assistants.
And so the hair-spring was slowly adopted by English watchmakers with a number of minor improvements.
It is interesting to learn that the merchants and makers of this kind of work were in their own time called neither watchmakers nor horologists, but toymen.
One of the early watchmakers connected with American manufacture.
This does not mean that Switzerland had contained no watchmakers before Cusin's appearance, but we are considering the beginnings of a great industry and not mere instances of isolated workmen.
French and Swiss watchmakers reduced the friction until it needed very little power to run the mechanism, and then were able to employ a mainspring which was not stiff enough to require a fusee.
American makers adopted this idea, but the British clung to the fusee and the stiff spring; it has cost them much of their prestige as watchmakers and much of their trade.
The English became such famous watchmakers that in 1698 an act was passed to compel makers to place their names upon those they made, in order that discreditable ones might not be passed for English.
The National Convention is to be thanked for the foundation of the first "horlogerie," having invited to Besançon the refugee watchmakers of Chaux de Fonds and Locle, who had been prescribed for their adherence to the Republican idea.
There were, it is true, numerous persons who dubbed themselves watchmakers and who, like myself, could repair a watch; but they could not make one.
However, we are free of certain other expenses the old watchmakers encountered," went on Mr. Burton.
But it was the Swiss who were the master watchmakers of the Old World.
There had been watchmakers there before, but the standards this guild created established a quality of work hitherto unknown.
The large wheel at the left is the “main wheel,” called by watchmakers the “barrel.
It is designed principally for watchmakers of some experience, and cannot presume to cover details that would be essential for those in early apprenticeship.
Some watchmakers use small bow lathes for examining and finishing pivots, or the Jacot lathe, which is excellent for this kind of work.
Different watchmakers have different methods and good results are attained in more than one way.
Some watchmakers also do not understand this feature clearly and the limits of variation to which watches have been adjusted are seldom considered.
Some watchmakers center the spring on the balance cock before it is staked on the balance and very good results can be obtained in this way.
By far the greater number of watchmakers are employed in stores having only one or two workmen who are required to do the cleaning and to make all repairs.
The fact that they are so considered however, is the reason why watchmakers will sometimes fine wide variation in new watches before they have been damaged or mishandled.
Sometimes watchmakersof considerable ability will demand as a basic consideration that pivots be fitted with very little side shake and that end shakes also be quite close if close time is to be expected.
It was the practice of many olden time watchmakers to allow a large bottle of neat's-foot oil to stand in a position exposed to the direct rays of the sun in summer and to the extreme cold of the winter.
Some watchmakers oil the fork of the lever in anchor escapements very slightly, by applying oil and then using pith to remove any surplus, while others never oil the fork.
The point of this remark lies in the question--How many of the so-called practical watchmakers could tell you what proportion of a cylinder should be cut away from the half shell?
Apparently there seems to be a belief with very many watchmakersthat there is a set of shorthand rules for setting an escapement, especially in American watches, which, if once acquired, conquers all imperfections.
Watchmakers have one advantage, however, because they can very easily work over a cheap set of drawing instruments and make them even superior to anything they can buy at the art stores.
These frictional escapements held favor with many eminent watchmakers even after the introduction of the detached escapements.
Coventry, gold repeater presented to Dickens by watchmakers of, iii.
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