Advanced training · Watch project
Your next advanced course could end on your wrist.
You already practise anglage. With Alexandra Schmitz, you finish the components that will go into your watch, then assemble the watch yourself at Initium with the guidance of a qualified watchmaker.
An advanced project reviewed case by case and not directly bookable. Level, components, configuration, schedule and budget must be approved by the parties involved.
Ovide · the work begins with the componentProject principle
A watch that carries your own work, too.
The project connects technical progress with a finished piece: you create the selected finishes, then assemble the watch yourself at Initium, guided by a qualified watchmaker.
- Your hand
- The entrusted components remain the real material for your advanced training.
- A shared framework
- Technique, configuration, responsibilities, schedule and budget are agreed before work begins.
- A finished piece
- The assembled watch makes the work carried out throughout the journey visible.
The partners on film
Meet BeWatchmaker and Initium.
Two perspectives on making a watch your own: the BeWatchmaker concept and a glimpse inside Initium.
Project framework
Everything is agreed before the first component is touched.
Responsibilities, watch configuration and commitments become one confirmed decision.
Every responsibility is confirmed.
Alexandra leads the anglage, Initium the assembly, BeWatchmaker the watch and its support.
The configuration can actually be built.
Model, colours and parts are selected from options confirmed by BeWatchmaker.
Schedule and budget are agreed.
The three parties’ availability and financial terms are approved before work begins.
What the project review defines. The quotation separates the watch and compatible components, Alexandra’s anglage guidance, the assembly workshop and any travel. Duration and budget are only confirmed after your level has been assessed and the configuration approved.
The complete journey
From technical scope to the watch on your wrist.
At each stage, you know who is involved, what must be approved and what comes next.
- 01
Frame
Define the technical scope.
Alexandra reviews your previous work and agrees the selected areas, techniques and expected result with you.
- 02
Bevel
Work on the components with Alexandra.
You carry out the anglage yourself. Alexandra observes, explains the deviation, guides the correction and checks the level reached on the selected areas.
- 03
Assemble
Complete the assembly in an Initium workshop.
Once the finishes are approved, you assemble your watch at the Initium workshop selected for the project, guided by a qualified watchmaker.
- 04
Wear
Wear the result of your work.
BeWatchmaker organises the project configuration and manages the warranty and after-sales service under the conditions agreed for the watch.
The watch base
Ovide keeps the work visible.
Its skeletonised architecture puts the components and their finishing in the foreground, carrying the result of the training onto the wrist.
- Case
- 42 mm
- Calibre
- Skeletonised ETA 6497
- Winding
- Manual
- Small seconds
- At 9 o’clock
- Crystals
- Sapphire front · mineral back
- Strap
- 22 mm · leather and rubber
First exchange · Technical brief
Start with what your hand already knows.
The review does not promise a schedule or budget before the assessment. It checks your level, the work that may be possible and the available configuration.
- 01 · Experience
- The courses you have completed and the techniques you already use.
- 02 · Components
- The types of watch components you have worked on before.
- 03 · Intention
- The technique and result you want to develop further.