Resources – Horology student

A review of a few books on horology I own can be found here.

A list of shops where tools and movements can be bought is on this page.

Watchbase is a database of watch movements which indicates the base caliber and gives examples of watches in which the movement was used
Ranfft Is a database of watch movements
Caliber Corner is a database of watch movements. In addition to information about the movement, it usually provides a few images.
Pocket Watch Database is exactly what the title implies. It is a great resource for information on American pocket watches.

Bartosz Ciechanowski’s has create a great resource on Mechanical Watches, with animations to explain how each component works and also the interactions between each component.
Animagraff is a webpage with a 3D, moving model of a watch movement. You can zoom in and out and change your viewing angle. It is a great resource to better understand the interactions between the different parts of the movement.
The Timezone Watch School Illustrated Glossary of Watch Parts A great resources to learn the name of all watch parts and how they work.
Walt Odets’ articles on Timezone’s Horologium Archives are a great resource of technical explanations and reviews.
Hodinkee’s Watch 101 is also a good resource to understand the watch vocabulary.
ETA’s Swisslab training tool (direct link to 6497 page) contains a visual step-by-step assembly/disassembly training tool for the 6497, 2892 and 7750. Unfortunately, there is no homepage that I could find, but by googling ETA Swisslab and the movement you should get the direct link.
Horlogerie Suisse is a website in French with a few movement deconstructions and some theoretical knowledge, some of which is quite advanced
Learnwatchmaking is a website offering online courses (one free, the others not). I took the Watchmaking 101 and chronograph courses and found them very interesting.
Jomashop has a page about the history of clock and watches starting from antiquity with a lot of interesting links to the time measuring devices used over the centuries

The Naked Watchmaker Peter Speake-Marin’s website contains movement tear-downs, interviews of key players in the watch world, an interesting bookshop and artistic pictures of watches
The Watch Guy is the personal site of a watchmaker who posts pictures or the watches he repairs. The image gallery is particularly interesting.
17jewels.info has pictures of hundreds of movement deconstructions, mostly vintage
Ashton Tracy is an independent watchmaker
Dean DK documents on YouTube all the steps of his project of making a watch entirely with traditional methods
Nathan Bobinchak is a young watchmaker who has documented his journey through watchmaking school (including technical aspects) and continues to document his work as a professional watchmaker.

Worn & Wound’s Caliber Spec series (here 2824) covered the 2824, 7001 and 6497. The easiest way to find the pages is to google “Worn and Wound Caliber Spec”.
Vintage watch manuals is a section on The Watch Guy’s website where he posts a few manuals from vintage watches that are useful to understand how to take them apart and reassemble them.
Watch movements blog is an interesting resources about movements, but unfortunately is mainly in German.