Creating your watch

Let your ideas come to life, for you and your next generations

Machiel Hulsman

Bespoke projects

Hulsman Timepieces offers bespoke projects in various styles such as sporty, classic or any according your wishes. Watch designs with complications like perpetual calendar, 3D moon, tourbillon, remontoir etc. are possible.

 

Phases

The process of letting design and build your own bespoke timepiece by Hulsman Timepieces, consists of the following phases.

  1. Intake
  2. Translating your passions and ideas into a design
  3. Building 3D -and technical design
  4. Building process
  5. Testing
  6. Finalize the watch
  7. Maintenance of your timepiece

Your personal watch will be handed over including a complete build-report, containing photo’s and clips of the manufacturing of all the individual components, as well as a service manual and a certificate of authenticity.

Impression of the process

Technical design
At the work bench
Handmade cutters
Reaming of the holes
The first 100% dutch inhouse movement
The first 100% dutch inhouse movement
Balance bridge
Making the impuls jewel
Anchor bridge
Balance bridge filing
Bridge cotes de Geneve
Screw holes ratched wheel
Making the balance staff
Cutting ratched wheel
Small screw
Balance truing
Complete 3rd wheel
Barrel jewel
Sliding pinion
Staking wheel and pinion
Complete ratched wheel
Escapement
Escape wheel
Pinion through microscope
Balance rim spokes
Hands in the making
Drilling
Hands detail
Minute hand detail
Red gold case engine turning
Escape wheel finished
3rd wheel pinion
Brown hands test
Mainplate in the making
Perlage
Bridge
Barrel
Schaublin 70
Movement: Marie-Elise
Escape wheel finishing the spokes
Centre wheel
Cutting the jewels
Petermann gear cutting machine
Behind the Petermann gearcutter
Winding -and setting mechanism

Contact

If you are interested in the possibilities of manufacturing a watch, please contact me for an intake. Fill in the contactform or get in touch with me by telephone: +31 655 842 672

Location Zwolseweg 29, 8181 AB Heerde Gelderland, The Netherlands Hours Anytime
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