Workshop
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A focused format to follow each student closely, correct the gesture at the right moment and make each retouch a real step forward.
Art de l’Anglage — by Alexandra Schmitz · Les Brenets
Workshop training in watchmaking anglage.
What if true luxury was
having gold in your hands?
In Les Brenets, Art de l’Anglage teaches anglage on real components under Alexandra Schmitz’s guidance: file, wood stick, micromotor, diamond, loupe — then double binocular microscope, HD camera and 4K screen to see the gap, name it and correct it without delay.
Method
See · understand · correct
Alexandra observes the gesture as it is being built. The deviation is seen, named and corrected before it settles in. The student learns to train the hand as much as the eye.
Tools
Hand + image
The student works under an HD camera, with feedback on a 4K screen. When needed, the double binocular microscope shows the gesture up close: pressure, angle, retouch, rhythm. The image never replaces the hand; it helps the student understand what the hand must correct.
Supports
Real components
Bridges, wheels, levers and components, vintage or contemporary — including current manufacture components — bring the student face to face with real workshop constraints: geometry, access, surface state, regularity and retouching.
Reading the component
The component sets the diagnosis: width, edge, reflection, retouch.
The loupe brings the student back to the real component: under the light, an angle quickly shows whether it holds. On a watch component, width, boundary and reflection show what the hand must preserve or retouch.
Angle, width, geometry, reflection: the component shows what holds and what needs to be reworked. To go further, you can read the Workshop Journal.
Exploration mode: click a marker, or activate the loupe to read the detail.
Click a marker to read it. Activate the loupe to give full space to the detail.
01
Clean edge
A clean transition, without a soft edge or burrs.
02
Even width
A width that swells or narrows betrays the trajectory.
03
Coherent geometry
Curves, points and retouches must remain coherent.
04
Stable reflection
A broken reflection points to a zone that needs retouching.
Living tradition · today’s tools
The traditional anglage gesture, made readable at the component itself.
In the workshop, the image does not replace know-how. It helps train the eye as much as the hand: reading light, sensing pressure, understanding the deviation and correcting in the right place.
Double binocular microscope
See the gesture as it happens.
At the double binocular microscope, the student observes the gesture live: tool inclination, pressure, rhythm, light on the edge. When a correction requires it, a transparent marker indicates the deviation on the component precisely, so the student understands where to retouch and why.
Correction
The student is not left alone with the deviation.
Irregular width, soft edge, broken reflection, too much pressure, misplaced retouching: the deviation appears on screen, Alexandra names it, and the student immediately returns to the component with a clear indication. What the loupe shows to a single gaze, the image makes shareable.
The photo portfolio keeps a simple record of the path: what was seen, understood and corrected.
See
The loupe, binocular microscope and screen make the deviation visible at the right moment.
Understand
Width, edge, reflection, retouching: every deviation receives a clear name.
Correct
The student returns to the bench with one concrete correction to hold in the hand.
Real watch components
You progress on components that do not forgive approximation.
Bridges, wheels, levers and components, vintage or contemporary — including current manufacture components — support the training. Each material, access point and surface state imposes its constraint: the exercise remains tied to the trade, not to an abstract school piece.
Come to the bench
Three formats, the same work on the component.
First, the hand is tested under the light. Then the time changes: one day to find your bearings, one week to correct, one hundred hours to build.
8h
Discover the workshop
Set up the bench, take the file in hand and understand what the component requires: light, support, first deviations.
40h
Refine the gesture
Correct an existing gesture: width, reflection, pressure, junctions. Correction comes before the error settles in.
100h
Build a complete foundation
Build workshop references: tools, surrounding finishes, hand and micromotor anglage, repetition and portfolio.
Two entry points
One workshop, two working contexts.
Art de l’Anglage welcomes students who want to build their gesture, and workshops that need to stabilise a practice on their own components and criteria.
Discover, correct or build a serious foundation.
The 8h, 40h and 100h formats allow you to enter the workshop without skipping steps: first immersion, advanced correction or a complete foundation.
- 8hUnderstand what anglage really requires.
- 40hStabilise width, reflection and retouching.
- 100hBuild a coherent foundation, with time to repeat and check.
Align several hands around the same finishing level.
The work is built with your components, workshop constraints and criteria: gestures to stabilise, retouching to clarify, bench organisation.
- Team trainingA shared vocabulary to read and correct.
- Company componentsLearning as close as possible to your realities.
- Workshop setupTools, holders, ergonomics, checking and portfolio.
Jura Arc · transmitted skills
ARC HORLOGER member
This membership links Art de l’Anglage to a network of watchmaking skills: know-how preserved, practised at the bench and passed on to students and professionals.
Media & public markers
Trained gestures, supported workshops, a craft made more visible.
A few public markers — media coverage, key figures and testimonials — help situate the work carried out at the workshop.
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