Anyone who knows anything about watches knows that watchmaking is hard. And anyone who knows anything about watchmaking knows that the bar set by George Daniels is extremely high. But despite these daunting challenges, there is a young watchmaker in Canberra, Australia, who is making a complete tourbillon pocket watch according to the George Daniels method. His name is Reuben Schoots. If you’re a close reader of Time+Tide, you will have seen an interview with Reuben in the 2019 edition of NOW Magazine, and also read his recent article published on Time+Tide about the new Grand Seiko 9SA5 caliber. If you missed those stories (I highly recommend you go and check them out), Reuben is based in the Australian Capital Territory, and had a rather unusual introduction to watchmaking. He had a mechanical upbringing thanks to his father’s love of vintage cars, but becoming a watchmaker was never in his plan. Reuben was given a book on watchmaking while suffering from a life-threatening illness, and promptly slipped down the rabbit hole of technical horology. “I travelled to South America in 2015 and caught a tropical virus that damaged my immune system,” he explains. “It took me over two years to…
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