For friends, family, a collectors' club or your team. Two to eight guests sit at real watchmakers' benches for two to four hours and take a mechanical movement apart, with a professional watchmaker beside them. We come to you.
A TimeTechnics private class is booked by you, for people you choose. Nobody else buys a seat. You set the date, the place and the length, and the whole session is built around your group.
A birthday, an anniversary or a retirement. A gift people remember, shared with the people who matter.
Your watch club or a group of friends who already talk calibres over dinner and want to work on one.
Precision, patience and some laughter. A team activity that leaves everyone with a new skill.
For boutiques, banks and brands: give your best clients an evening of watchmaking under your roof.
Pick a class and the number of guests to see the price. Each step builds on the one before, so a longer class takes you further into the movement. See what each class covers →
Prices are in USD for the whole class, including the instructor, benches, tools and movements. Travel expenses to locations outside the instructor's city are added to the total.
+ travel expenses, added on top of the class price when the venue is outside the instructor's city
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Here is a four-hour Horology 101-103. Shorter classes follow the same order with less time at the bench. Times are a guide.
We arrive at least two hours before the class to set up a bench, lamp, tools and movement for every guest, and connect the screen.
A short visual introduction: how time is kept, how a movement is built, and why some watches cost what they do.
The craft, its history and its vocabulary, so everyone shares the same words before touching a part.
On screen, the instructor walks through the movement in front of each guest: energy, gear train, escapement and balance.
Loupe on, tools in hand. Everyone learns to hold tweezers and turn a screwdriver like a watchmaker.
Step by step, guests take the movement apart, with each step projected on screen and the watchmaker at their side.
Time to stretch, rest the eyes and compare notes.
The careful part: putting every part back together until the balance starts to swing.
Questions, the watches on everyone's wrists, and stories from the trade to finish.
"Everyone arrives curious. They leave knowing exactly what is happening inside the watch on their wrist."Vincent Robert · Watchmaker, FHH master trainer
No. The classes are designed for complete beginners. Collectors who already know their calibres enjoy them just as much, because they finally get to work on one.
One price covers the whole class: from $1,300 for Horology 101 with 2 guests to $4,400 for Horology 101-103 with 8 guests. Travel expenses outside the instructor's city are added to the total.
Anywhere a plane takes us. We teach mostly in the United States, Canada and Europe, and travel further for the right occasion.
A quiet room with a table and chair for each guest and power nearby. A dining room, meeting room, private dining room or boutique lounge all work. We bring everything else.
The movements and tools are part of the class equipment and come back with us. If you would like your guests to take something home, ask us when you request your class.
Yes. Classes are taught in English or French.
Ideally four to eight weeks ahead, and more for travel abroad. Ask anyway if your date is close.
Ask us. We can run two classes back to back, or bring a second instructor.
Fill in what you know. The form writes a request email for you to send to us, and we reply with availability and a confirmed quote, including any travel.
office@timetechnics.com
