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A great experience at the Audemars Piguet Watchmaking MasterClass in Beverly Hills

 
 By: AnthonyTsai : October 25th, 2014-07:57
This past Thursday October 25, 2014, I attended the AP Watchmaking MasterClass in Beverly Hills at The Peninsula in The Verandah Room. Start time was 9:30am so I had to miss a day of work and endure a 2.5 hour morning drive in rush hour traffic. I believe...  

Wow! What a treat!

 
 By: patrick_y : October 25th, 2014-12:03
Nice crash course on Watchmaking 101 there! For me, getting the tiny ruby pallets into the metal pallet fork is often a very difficult and frustrating thing. On average, I lose one ruby for every two ruby pallet fork I assemble. 50% in loss! What was your... 

My most favorite part is screwing in the screws

 
 By: AnthonyTsai : October 25th, 2014-14:54
The most difficult part this time was sliding in the escape wheel under another wheel. I'm sure it would be very difficult to put in the rubies in the metal pallet fork :P We didn't get to experience that madness :) At least this time I didn't lose any sc... 

Wonderful report Anthony. Thanks for the detailed coverage.

 
 By: MichaelC : October 25th, 2014-19:02
I felt like I was there! I am glad you got your Caliber 3090 up an running. That must have felt really cool.

Fantastic report Anthony!

 
 By: jrwong23 (aka watchthebin) : October 26th, 2014-11:46
I enjoyed reading it and looking at your photos and the video :) It's always funny when others take photos of us during watch making classes... We tend to look very serious like a mad scientist indeed :p You look great though :) Cheers Robin

what a day!

 
 By: Duf : October 26th, 2014-14:06
Very nice nad very instructive! I wish I could do it!! thanks for sharing

I'm sure it is!

 
 By: AnthonyTsai : October 27th, 2014-06:22
We didn't disassemble anything but disassembling is usually always much easier :) Cheers, Anthony

That sure makes up for the long commute!

 
 By: AlexSunrise : October 27th, 2014-15:28
Great way to spend a day, Anthony! Thanks for taking us along. I remember the couple of times I have taken JLC´s Master Class I have been so absorbed by working on the movement that I merely but took a few photos. Having said that, yours are much more app... 

Things are much more easy these days due to the advancement of phone cameras

 
 By: AnthonyTsai : October 27th, 2014-20:01
I no longer find myself lugging around my DSLR to watch events anymore. The past 2 events I covered, all I brought was my phone and that was good enough to get decent photos. Cheers, Anthony