Incredible Stories in Watchmaking

I am sure I’ll come up with something

It wasn't supposed to post all the videos on the page. Watch Crunch has a bug; it was supposed to be a list. Not embedded videos. I'm trying to update the page but have to publish to see how it lays out the links. It's not ideal.

I've wanted to create a post that I can refer to or others can discover quality stories and documentaries. But the layout was not intended to be a page full of videos.

Point taken. But it's a shame you can't work on a post in draft mode and see it's published form before actually publishing.

I have another post in draft that is specific to Weiss watches, a review and thoughts on the creator of Weiss. More like what you are talking about, I'm still trying to understand how to best use the platform. So this is kind of trial and error because they don't give us the tools to create posts in a way that is intuitive or that we can understand how the published form will be.

You also can't unpublish, which makes sense, but yeah I can see how in it's current form is overwhelming. I'm finding many limitations to creating content here. I've posted a bug report and suggestions.

Good to know. I'm just learning that today. I write technology content on other sites that have full-blown markdown editors with previews, I'm not used to this format. I have text for each section but thought I could put the links in a list like format. Doesn't work and I had to publish to figure out the links.

Defintitely will work on the format here and turn it into multiple posts.

I have text in a document with the layout and thought I could translate it directly to a post. But that obviously didnt work lol

I spent hours writing and organizing links. Back to the drawing board.

Yeah reordering of images seems to only work on my mobile app and not in a webpage. Am I wrong about that?

I've posted several bugs and feature requests. I hope they are not getting annoyed by it lol

I suppose interlinking needs to be done manually, too. It doesn't seem to be a way of doing threads (like on Twitter) as a series. But that's a great idea.

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Watched the George Daniels ones, great post. Thank you.

Thanks. I'll make the post more digestible. Mostly wanted to put all of these videos in one place. A WatchCrunch post might not be ready for a vast resource like this, but maybe bookmark it and revisit it. Yeah, the Watchmaker Apprentice is great.

I had heard of George Daniels in the context of Omega, but thought no more of it. To find out that he produced one man, hand made watches, and that Omega now use his Co axial escapement wow.

I followed this up by reading more about him. What a guy. 😊

One of my favourite stories is when in 1975 (Zenith watchmaker) Charles Vermot hid the blueprints, tools, parts etc. for the El Primero movement behind a wall in an attic when new owners of Zenith ordered him to destroy them.

In 1978 when (𝘯𝘦𝘸 new owners of) Zenith wanted to start producing the El Primero again spilled his secret.

So, without Charles Vermot's courage, forethought and stubborn refusal to follow his employers orders we probably wouldn't have the Zenith El Primero movement today.

A great story.

Yeah, I just learned about this recently:

https://youtu.be/a9BldGDz4U0?si=PRbxIXb369t-_gIh

Is there another story or documentary anywhere, something in English. I can understand French only to a certain extent. Or is this the video you know of too?

I missed that, didn't realise you'd mentioned it.

Apologies.

I did a bit of sleuthing and found this:

https://www.fratellowatches.com/breaking-down-the-brand-zenith/