Embryo EPFL Watchmakers
Description
The EPFL Watchmakers project was founded in 2023 by student engineers keen to unite students around a common passion: watchmaking. Founded in Switzerland, the epicenter of the world's watchmaking industry, the project aims to conceive, design and assemble a clock featuring innovative mechanisms and playing with interesting physical principles not currently present in the watchmaking world. One of our other future objectives future would be to make watches, from mechanism to case, bracelet and clasp, using new materials and mechanisms. Achieving such a goal requires time, a great deal of technical skill and knowledge, as well as the intermediate steps necessary for our activities to run smoothly. Firstly, building a modular clock to familiarize ourselves with clock mechanisms on a larger scale. Also, to test the physical principles that would be applicable and usable in our clock, and to find out in which part of it these phenomena would apply: energy supply, transmission or time display. Then, for our future objectives, we'll be doing some design work and machining tests on bracelets and cases in innovative materials. Finally, our long-term objective is to miniaturize the first mechanisms designed for the clock on a watch scale, in order to produce our first prototype watch.
End-of-project objective
At the end of the academic year, the students will have to sucessfully assemble a clock prototype with innovative features such as mechanical systems but also possibly the integration of electronic functionalities or even testing new materials.
Number of students
There are usually 20-25 students doing this project.
Website
https://www.epflwatchmakers.com/Contact
Main contact for students if interested: https://www.epflwatchmakers.com/join-us
Project coordinator
Samuel Baptiste Anthonioz
- Function
- Student/Auxiliary
- Unit
- Student Kreativity and lnnovation Laboratory
Member list
Display current project members (EPFL login required)