B is a master from the south, and he is older. His wife runs a watch counter, and B is mainly responsible for repairing it. As for B, I was an apprentice in a watch shop in a provincial capital city in the south when I was young. For a better life, he came to my small county in the northwest. His technology is similar to that of A, but his theoretical knowledge is worse. After that, I went to a high school in the provincial capital city, and I was familiar with the watch repairer near the school. They are all southerners, and the scale of repairing watches is the same as that of B, with a small counter less than one square meter. They also acquired the skill of repairing watches by being apprentices. Not far from the school, there is a watch shop run by a minority friend. According to him, they also learned from the master.
Regardless of the scale of watches sold, the above five watch repair booths are all similar in scale. The main customers are watches for daily use, facing the public, and due to the limited space of tools and equipment, they will not often come into contact with world-class watches.
When I was in college. I found Swatch Group's Haiak Watch School in Shanghai by chance and met a friend by chance. Because Hayak School is a cooperative school with Shanghai University, part of each enrollment is admitted from students in the Department of Measurement and Control of Shanghai University. He is one of them. He is currently working at Swatch headquarters. According to him, his work is relatively simple, and the maintenance work is mostly limited to the replacement of watch parts.
Because the company is large, there is no need to worry about the supply of spare parts. Masters only need to complete the after-sales problem of the Swatch brand, and the watches they encounter are far less complicated and changeable than those of self-employed households. Haiak School only enrolls about 20 students in each period, which faces the whole society and has certain requirements for school age. Only by passing its interview can you enter the school. There are two semesters, just like going to school, because the school buildings and classrooms are rented from Shanghai University, and students have to pay certain tuition and accommodation fees. There is no tuition fee, but students must work in Swatch Group for several years after graduation.
When it comes to large-scale, I think of a watch training institution with a national name. The Institute of Light Industry Watch and Clock competes with the former Swiss school in China. Hyak School trains after-sales personnel for Swiss brands, while Academia Sinica trains relevant technicians for a large number of domestic watch manufacturers, including not only maintenance personnel, but also watch-related technicians such as assemblers and inspectors. Many domestic watch manufacturers will organize employees to come here for training, and individuals can also sign up for study and pay a certain training fee. Many personal watch repair masters will come here to obtain a certain level of certificate to better prove their watch repair skills. The training of Academia Sinica has no special requirements for students' academic qualifications and age. You can learn from 0.
Let me talk about a very special watch repairer. He can process or repair some watch parts with simple tools. He is very kung fu. Now in his forties, his father repairs watches. He can be said to be a family-style watch repairer. When he first learned to repair watches, his father would ask him to do some basic exercises, such as putting rice grains from one box to another with tweezers. I think this practice method is more brilliant. I have been a self-employed maintenance master for a long time. Later, when business was sluggish, his craft was taken away by a boss in the south and he went to Macao to repair his watch.