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Yoda wrote: ↑May 27th, 2019, 3:03 pm WOSTEP....mmm, hmmm.

It may depend on the person/watchmaker, but I once visited an authorized dealer who claimed that there were four WOSTEP certified watchmakers working there.
Still, when I asked him about servicing a Rolex he told me that all watches were sent to the factory for a complete overhaul.....at a high four digit cost.....
It makes me wonder why anyone would be certified, it takes a while and it is not exactly something you get for free..
Is this some kind of inner circle kiss ass and money thing?
I know a few certified watchmakers, none of them do hairspring work and only one would consider staff and balance work....

I have also built my own bench, it is adjustable in height and has a 30 mm thick, green bench top in dining table size to make room for all my daily tools. I have three different chairs, an ordinary adjustable up/down, a Sally saddle chair and one of those where you more or less lean on your knees.

pvirus wrote: ↑May 27th, 2019, 3:40 pm

Yoda wrote: ↑May 27th, 2019, 3:03 pm WOSTEP....mmm, hmmm.

It may depend on the person/watchmaker, but I once visited an authorized dealer who claimed that there were four WOSTEP certified watchmakers working there.
Still, when I asked him about servicing a Rolex he told me that all watches were sent to the factory for a complete overhaul.....at a high four digit cost.....
It makes me wonder why anyone would be certified, it takes a while and it is not exactly something you get for free..
Is this some kind of inner circle kiss ass and money thing?
I know a few certified watchmakers, none of them do hairspring work and only one would consider staff and balance work....

I have also built my own bench, it is adjustable in height and has a 30 mm thick, green bench top in dining table size to make room for all my daily tools. I have three different chairs, an ordinary adjustable up/down, a Sally saddle chair and one of those where you more or less lean on your knees.

Hmmm interesting ...
If so, what is the point of certification if we cannot work independently and receive a fee from our own work?
This makes me think, if the certification is just a kind of marker that we can receive some branded watches from consumers and then the service is carried out by the related brand manufacturers, and ... we just receive a commission from the service?

Yoda wrote: ↑May 27th, 2019, 3:56 pm

pvirus wrote: ↑May 27th, 2019, 3:40 pm

Yoda wrote: ↑May 27th, 2019, 3:03 pm WOSTEP....mmm, hmmm.

It may depend on the person/watchmaker, but I once visited an authorized dealer who claimed that there were four WOSTEP certified watchmakers working there.
Still, when I asked him about servicing a Rolex he told me that all watches were sent to the factory for a complete overhaul.....at a high four digit cost.....
It makes me wonder why anyone would be certified, it takes a while and it is not exactly something you get for free..
Is this some kind of inner circle kiss ass and money thing?
I know a few certified watchmakers, none of them do hairspring work and only one would consider staff and balance work....

I have also built my own bench, it is adjustable in height and has a 30 mm thick, green bench top in dining table size to make room for all my daily tools. I have three different chairs, an ordinary adjustable up/down, a Sally saddle chair and one of those where you more or less lean on your knees.

Hmmm interesting ...
If so, what is the point of certification if we cannot work independently and receive a fee from our own work?
This makes me think, if the certification is just a kind of marker that we can receive some branded watches from consumers and then the service is carried out by the related brand manufacturers, and ... we just receive a commission from the service?

Probably a commission, but I don't know how it works.

pvirus wrote:I was quite surprised to find this article.
When I was a teenager I liked heavy metal music and kind of, one of them was the Anthrax band.
And now, I found an article that one of his former guitarists became a watchmaker

https://www.core77.com/posts/36944/Ex-A ... MusicREDEF