The Watchmaker's Workshop: Machining - Making Screws for a Watch

Cameron Weiss, master watchmaker and founder of family-owned Weiss Watch Company, dives into watchmaking in this new series.
Who knew something so tiny could be so complex? Screws require precision machining and intense attention to detail - tiny tolerances, focus, and elaborate equipment. Learn all there is to know about making a tiny but essential watch component, a screw.
Directed, shot, edited by Andrew Reed at the Weiss Watch Company workshop in Nashville, TN. weisswatchcompany.com #watchmaker #watch #watchrepair #watchmaking #craftsman

[@gagemoore4781]

Going to rewatch the entire channel multiple times to prepare myself

[@speedbird63]

What impresses me most is how you find them once you have made them . As a CNC turner myself for 30+ years ,I know how difficult it is to find a tiny screw once dropped in the swarfe tray ! 😫

[@PokeChonker]

Thank you for uploading this video. It scratches some itch in my head that I didn't know I had

[@guckertott]

As part of a repair, I once saw a watchmaker spend an entire weekend attempting to recreate a movement screw on a Romain Gauthier piece. A screw had broken off at the head. But not just any screw, it was a curved slot screw, or "coffee bean screw" and a replacement could not be located. He began his reconstruction of the screw on Thursday and worked straight through the weekend (24 hours total) attempting to recreate it. When I came to work on Monday morning and asked him how the screw turned out he said he really nailed it. That was after also creating a driver that custom matched the screw.

[@thewatchmakersworkshop]

🤣

[@ronmccarty7537]

This is absolutely insane! I love it

[@skitstorm5634]

I’m currently making screws for the table clock we’re making at watchmaking school. Watching (listening) to this at the same time gives me… focus. Thank you.

[@skitstorm5634]

Manually. No computers.

[@MountainSalsa]

Top notch quality, thank you.

[@jlpower]

OMG... You just made my week!

[@thewatchmakersworkshop]

I'm so glad!

[@khronosbest9448]

Few appreciate the level of skills required in order to make a screw or a spring. Ive done both but never to the degree of precision required for horological purpose. While that is difficult and painstaking enough you also are the videographer and editor of this presentation... i stand, applaud and appreciate what you do. Bravo 🫵👏

[@thewatchmakersworkshop]

Thank you so much! Andrew Reed is the videographer/editor, as it is his profession. Much like watchmaking, it takes years of practice and skill to do.

[@sanxi34]

Cameron is back on youtube!!! AWESOME!!!!! =D

[@thewatchmakersworkshop]

It's true!

[@shaneand4]

The older lathes are screw machines. I've repaired a few of them.

[@MrPhotodoc]

I now have a new respect for the lowly screw. Also I want a CNC machine.

[@1ginner1]

No you don't. lol. Unless of course you are willing to undergo a LOT of training. I have been programming, setting and operating CNC machines since their inception, and I still make mistakes, fortunately all minor, but if you get it wrong, you can ruin a machine in seconds. So be careful what you wish for.

[@1ginner1]

Excellent video, It makes you wonder how anyone produced screws before 1739 when Henry Hindley came up with the first lathe able to cut screws with a leadscrew.

[@thewatchmakersworkshop]

Thank you!

[@jamonation]

It would be amazing to see you break out the lathe and turn a screw, just to show how truly minuscule they are, and how labor-intensive the process really is. Someday.. when you're not busy running a watch company!

[@thewatchmakersworkshop]

Haha, yes!

[@cristianvera8506]

Awesome knowledge good job thanks 👌👏🙌🤘

[@thewatchmakersworkshop]

My pleasure

[@GrzesSobieski]

Excellent high quality video production. Detailed explanation. Now how about a Cal 1003 version with coin silver case?

[@thewatchmakersworkshop]

Great suggestion! Maybe someday