Build your own timepiece - 1st - Maison Alcée - Persée
Over the coming weeks we will be presenting a list of suppliers of watchmaking kits. There are currently a few options for anyone wishing to take up watchmaking on a self-taught basis. It is always an undertaking that calls for a good deal of calm and perseverance. Being your own master is not always as easy as it seems. Even so, we have found a few options for those who want to venture into the world of watchmaking on their own.
In a world where our senses are constantly on alert, Maison Alcée was born of the conviction of its founder - a young Frenchwoman with experience in the watch industry - that creating an object, beginning with a mechanical desk clock, is a way of passing on knowledge, awakening our sense of beauty, teaching us patience and focusing the mind on authentic sensations.
The promotional video explains how important it is to devote more time to what really matters:
True to the watchmaking tradition commonly known as the "craft of a thousand tools",
Maison Alcée supplies all the tools needed to assemble the Persée clock: a watchmaker's loupe, tweezers, four screwdrivers, finger cots, a chamois cloth and an oiler. Several tools have been specially designed to make them easier for beginners to use.
In every case, the kits let you take a break and find the time to refocus on a demanding activity. Learning to assemble a Persée clock takes about ten hours.
Movement details:
Movement: mechanical, manual winding
Calibre: Manufacture Maison Alcée
Functions: hours, minutes and seconds. Optional strike on the hour.
Oscillator: balance and hairspring regulated at a frequency of 18,000 vibrations per hour
Winding: unidirectional winding key
Power reserve: two weeks
Position: the choice between horizontal and vertical position is left to the enthusiast (a Maison Alcée innovation)
Personalisation: two engraved plates complete the case (one bearing the initials of the apprentice watchmaker). The other plate bears a unique and strictly personal number
assigned to each clock once it has been assembled.
Warranty: 24 months from the date of delivery.
Maintenance: the Persée can be serviced by its owner and taken apart and reassembled
Price
Persée Douce: from €4,600
Persée Azur: from €4,600
Persée Nuit: from €5,800
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