Watches 101: The wheel train assembly of a movement at the Lange Akademie.

A Lange & Söhne Connoisseur Akademie was in town again last week, and the Deployant Team attended the class held in The Salon, National Museum of Singapore Along with an exhibition of museum pieces and a small collection of rare collector watches, which included our Chief Editor’s own Lange LOG Cabaret, some media and customers were treated to a lesson in practical watchmaking This is a new module of the Lange Akademie, the participants are guided on the assembly of a movement, and learn to appreciate how the movement train works and the power flow within.

Here is our step by step guide to that. Assembly of a movement wheel train In this Lange Akademie, we used a robust ETA handwound movement for our class, as none of the participants are professional watchmakers While the author has attended another session in Glashütte ages ago, where he worked on the gear train of . Source