Exceptional graduation at the “Alfred Helwig“ School of Watchmaking

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Exceptional graduation at the “Alfred Helwig“ School of Watchmaking - Glashütte Original
On Wednesday July 9 2014, at a festive ceremony held in the atrium of the manufactory, 14 young watchmakers received their graduation certificates.

Glashütte Original Managing Director Yann Gamard and Gunnar Müller, Head of the “Alfred Helwig“ School of Watchmaking  took particular pleasure in presenting the year’s three toolmakers — one of them a young woman — with their diplomas six months in advance of the planned termination date of their studies. Almost all of the young watchmakers and toolmakers have already started working in their new jobs with the Saxon watchmaker.


Apprentice watches

During their studies the graduates have already proven to be both talented and persistent. In these three years of study, for example, a number of particularly committed young watchmakers have made an apprentice watch. The basis of this „journeyman’s piece“, which at present is developed voluntarily and on top of the core curriculum, is the movement blank of a pocket watch.

The students apply different finishings, galvanisation techniques and skeleton cuts, but also mount highly technical complications such as a flying tourbillon.

 

Glashutte-Original-Apprentice-Watches

 

Training in the “Alfred Helwig“ School of Watchmaking

Every year since 2001 the Saxon watchmaker has trained watchmakers and toolmakers in the company’s own training facility.

Along with theoretical knowledge, the students’ compulsory curriculum calls for insight into the practice of their trade. Conformity with international standards of education in the field is also highly valued, and its importance is further underscored by a cooperative exchange, unique in Germany, between the “Alfred Helwig“ School of Watchmaking and the Swiss watchmaking school, WOSTEP (Watchmakers of Switzerland Training and Educational Program).

As a result of this partnership, students graduating from the school receive, in addition to the German skilled worker certificate, the WOSTEP diploma.

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