Complete 35 Lesson Chicago School of Watchmaking CD - eBay (item 110251743597 end time May-13-08 13:01:34 PDT)

This auction is for a CD which contains the complete 35 lesson home correspondence course produced by the Chicago School of Watchmaking. Included on the CD are all 35 lesson plans as well as a separate 50 page "Tools and Materials of the Trade" section which illustrates the tools and materials required for watch repair. These lessons are extremely well written with many detailed illustrations throughout. There are over 700 detailed pages to be viewed on screen or printed out at your convenience. This course was developed so the student could learn watch repair at his/her own pace. This extremely comprehensive course covers every aspect of watch repair in a very easy to understand manner. Although originally produced in the 1950's, this lesson plan is still regarded as the most complete, easy to follow watchmaking course available. This course has been professionally scanned from the Original Lesson Plans using advanced image\text recognition software. As a result, the images and text are extremely high quality. I want to reiterate that these scans are from the Original Lesson Plans themselves, not re-scans from already photo copied material. This is a very important distinction since the difference in quality is very dramatic. This course integrates detailed illustrations throughout which aids the student in learning. If you cannot view the details of the illustrations due to poor image quality, the course is of no value. Don't hesitate to ask for a few sample pages so you can see for yourself. The files contained on the CD are in a PDF format, so Adobe Acrobat Reader (which is free to download) will be needed to view the pages. In addition, each page has a digital watermark which contains my Ebay ID and is only visible on screen. The watermark DOES NOT appear when the pages are printed out. If you would like to view a few sample pages, please send me your e-mail address and I'll be happy to send them along. Please ask any questions prior to placing a bid.

Lesson 1 Fundamental Principle, Equipment, Casing Lesson 2 Crowns, Stems, Sleeves, and Bows

Lesson 3 Fitting watch crystals and watch attachments Lesson 4 Nomenclature and Sizes of watches

Lesson 5 Mainsprings in watches Lesson 6 Motor and Jeweled barrels

Lesson 7 Selecting the Mainspring Lesson 8 Assembling watches

Lesson 9 Winding and Setting Mechanisms Lesson 10 Cleaning Watches

Lesson 11 Timing, Rating and Regulation Lesson 12 Factory Set Train Jewels

Lesson 13 Factory Balance Hole Jewels and Roller Jewels Lesson 14 Friction Jeweling

Lesson 15 Replacing Factory Balance Staffs Lesson 16 Truing Balance Wheels

Lesson 17 Poising Balance Wheels Lesson 18 Truing Hairsprings

Lesson 19 Colleting Hairsprings Lesson 20 The Overcoil Hairspring

Lesson 21 Principles of the Lever Escapement Lesson 22 Principles of the Lever Escapement Lesson 23 Types of Escapements Lesson 24 Drawing the Lever Escapement

Lesson 25 Drawing the Lever Escapement (cont'd) Lesson 26 Matching the Escapement

Lesson 27 Tools - Hardening and Tempering Lesson 28 The Lathe

Lesson 29 Lathe Work Lesson 30 Lathe Work (cont'd)

Lesson 31 Lathe Work (cont'd) Lesson 32 Part I - Fitting Hairsprings to Watches

Lesson 32 Part II - Modern Shop Methods Lesson 33 Electronic Timing Machines

Lesson 34 Electronic Timing Machines - Time-O-Graph Lesson 35 Problems and Solutions

***YOU WILL NOT FIND THIS WATCHMAKING CD OFFERED ANYWHERE ELSE ON EBAY. IF YOU DO, IT’S AN UNAUTHORIZED COPY. I KNOW OF ONLY ONE OTHER INDIVIDUAL WHO SELLS THIS CD AND IT IS NOT ON EBAY. THEREFORE, PLEASE REPORT TO EBAY AND MYSELF IF YOU HAVE BOUGHT, OR KNOW OF SOMEONE SELLING THIS CD WITH MY WATERMARK, “BILTMORE_WATCH_CO”, OR THE OTHER INDIVIDUAL’S WATERMARK WHICH STATES “BIDWIT” ON IT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP***

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