Editor’s note: Time+Tide Watches is very proud to be the first official media partner of the Horological Society of New York in history. Over this weekend, the HSNY ran their first watchmaking courses in Australia, and Roman S, a longtime reader and subject of several T+T stories (he has spectacular and unusual taste in watches), put pen to paper on his experience of completing ‘Watchmaking 101-103’, a class run in conjunction with The Hour Glass. For many watch enthusiasts, the idea of spending hours of intense concentration at a watchmaker’s bench holds a certain amount of nostalgia and appeal. Whilst tremendous advances in automation have allowed robots to step into the space once solely occupied by human hands, the humble watchmaker’s bench is still an object of pride and devotion for the practice of advanced skill and mechanical ingenuity. Thus, it was with a mixture of excitement and trepidation that I signed up to the “Horology 101-103” class hosted by the Horological Society of New York (HSNY), The Hour Glass and Time+Tide in Melbourne. The Horological Society of New York was established in 1866, and has been providing classes to the public since the 1950s. More recently, HSNY has started touring watchmaking…
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