Before the interweb Horological Times print magazine came to my old school mailbox filled with watchmaking knowledge from some of the greatest Master Watchmakers of our time. These articles of knowledge are still referenced by all of us globally. I hungered for this “inside info” as I was doing extensive vintage restorations on some of the greatest pieces of our time, alone. I am honored to now be a part of the journey of helping others in even the smallest way and that is also what AWCI / HT stands for. .

Please support American Watchmaking & Watchmaking institutions of knowledge like American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute.

They even have a rolling tour bus filled with watchmaking benches, tools and teachers for all to get a taste of a possible new career journey. I can relate to the tour bus part 🤘🕐🇺🇸🕐🤘

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/fashion/watches-music-audemars-piguet.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099864/

My childhood friend and IMMIGRANT Sal is one hell of impact on the world and humanity.

This story begins before I helped create THRASH METAL music and shows the human ability to see no boarders. A musical artist even at youth has no perception 0f NOT Loving someone from another nation (or color). We just want to guide others to where extremely talented musicians are and have a voice to the world outside of crappy suit and tie monitored pop music. Sal’s LOVE within him would not have flourished into the mammoth ability he has now of saving human lives on a global level and his mission to eradicate Polio if he wasn’t at that American bus stop and met me. Sal doesn’t have to give me credit as he’s done countless times as well as in his number one best selling books. A prideful artist wouldn’t do that and I’ve seen too many to count who do. He has an unbridled ability to LOVE others and send that LOVE back where it once emitted a birth. He is a Blessing to this world.

We are both not simply musicians who got lucky in our art. We are very calculated in our cohesive “take a path NOT traveled before” attitude to obtain our goals. We have longevity in our stride’s and perseverance toward our outcomes. He is a Dr., Humanitarian and a Professor and I have some crazy Swiss degrees in Watchmaking, micro mechanical engineering and micro electronic engineering. Music (Led Zeppelin who also changed the world in their own way) was our common bond and the focus point of the beautiful life altering story of us standing together not knowing one another as children at a bus stop.

In music we don’t see race, color, visa’s, or political policies. We just see LOVE of one another. Me giving Sal the Led Zeppelin ticket (by the way that was the last time they played in NYC) shows not just how music can alter a singular life path but how two artists from an upstate New York town (one being an IMMIGRANT) can impact TWO PLANETS  simply with a piece of wood with strings and a voice.

If Sal had NO United States visa there would be no Rock in the middle east. Sal paved that road of being the first rock star there. He wouldn’t have save the human lives he has on his current path. That my friends is a wonderful human being that has NO LABEL. .and doesn’t need papers to apply anywhere.  Just LOVe one AnotHer, Please.

~Dan Spitz~

Interview link:

Born in Lahore, Pakistan, he moved to New York at the age of 11. Being the “only overweight, brown, Muslim kid” in school, he lived in relative isolation–that is until Dan Spitz (later the guitarist of Anthrax) urged him “to get cool.” Cool came in the form of a ticket to a Led Zeppelin concert at Madison Square Garden, which kicked off, oddly enough, with “Kashmir.” .  .  . .

A wonderful video documentary on my unique Master Watchmaking Swiss pedigree’s and my musical composing. It is a pretty amazing video. Thank you CNN and Alexander Hotz for recognizing luxury Watchmaking’s crazy small world of micro mechanical technical achievements, and the few who obtain the honor to work on these human masterpieces. I also thank you for showing the world that achievements and goals are limitless with perseverance and God in your life ~Spitz~

I’m honored to be the #1 interview post for 2012 for the premier Master Watchmaking magazine HODINKEE.

Thank you all who have helped break the walls from music to luxury watchmaking down.

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Our No. 1 most popular post of 2012? John Reardon’s interview w @Anthrax guitarist @danspitz, a master watchmaker

Full Dan Spitz Watchmaking Interview

This is a wonderful article that hopefully puts into perspective the challenges of raising children (I have identical twins)  with Autism on a daily basis.

Please help support my Autism “Awareness”  mission in music and time avenues.

Dan Spitz

Palm Beach Post Direct Article Link:

The July issue of HM Magazine has an article on Red Lamb. Red Lamb interview:

It’s another Christophe Claret caliber (amazing execution of precision) that puts smiles on my face as I rip it down and diagnose the mysteries under all those tiny little parts. This one has some setting mechanism problems and a really weird Wolfs tooth problem on one of the gears. For those who don’t know what Wolfs teeth are I’ve included a picture of one of the gears in question during diagnostics under my fiber optic scope. You’ll only see this kind of gearing in extremely high quality movements because of the cost to cut the teeth in this fashion. If it’s cut right the wheel will be very thick. This added thickness and correct annealing of the metallurgy involved will yield such a precise mesh to the next gear that it’s simply incredible !

Notice the blue saphire jewels in the Tourbillon !

I’ve seen some chinese copies now but rest assured these are simply cosmetic junk. The addendum / deddendum  of these REAL Wolfs teeth gears have to be cut so precise. I love when I see a movement hit my bench that has this type of gearing in an area that really calls for it.

Can’t remember what else was making this piece malfunction. I do remember it wouldn’t make it the full 10 days on the autowinder and I had to go back in a few times. There were adjustments to the Tourbillon cage needed as well as a pallet fork on the Tourbillon cage needing the usual run through the cleaning machine and jewel adjust.

I am so blessed to be able to take these things apart and stare inside such miniature works of human art. Blows my mind. How about yours ?