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...traditional techniques of watchmaking live on in classroom 401, where seven students are studying for a two-year higher diploma. "By the end, they'll have mastered the history of watchmaking from the 15th century to the present day in both theory and practice," teacher Pascal Lindwerlin says proudly. Lindwerlin graduated from the same course himself in 1984, before spending 12 years building prototypes for a clockmaker in La Chaux-de-Fonds...
...Behind him, five first-year students are hunched over their benches with magnifying monocles screwed into their eyes. Antique clocks and watches in varying states of disassembly lie about, their components carefully stored in multirecessed trays. "The idea here is restoring a clock or watch to its original state," Lindwerlin explains, "which means they're tackling the problem of missing components." His students are trained to research where a timepiece was made and what sort of tools were used there at that time. They use computer-assisted design programs to reconceptualize missing parts and a separate workshop with lathes...
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