Jewellery training
Placements with MATY and a jewellery workshop: making, transformation, setting, soldering and polishing.
Alexandra Schmitz · Practising anglage since 2006
A teaching method built at the bench.
Since 2006, Alexandra Schmitz has practised hand and micromotor anglage in production, quality inspection and high-end watchmaking environments. After managing and training teams, she opened her workshop in Les Brenets to pass on a method built directly from components.
Alexandra and the student examine the same detail before the component returns to the bench.
Teaching in practice
Share the same detail. Keep the component in the student’s hands.
Alexandra inspects the component with the student, names what the light reveals and connects the deviation to its cause: pressure, angle, support, tool path or surface preparation. The component then returns immediately to the student’s hands.
Quality is assessed through geometry, consistent width, edge definition, surface condition and continuity of reflection.
2005 — today
Twenty years of craft, inspection and teaching.
From jewellery to high-end watchmaking, this path connects production, workshop leadership, professional training and the creation of Art de l’Anglage.
Compagnie Horlogère Locloise
Beveller then co-manager of a decoration workshop, leading five people, training and quality follow-up.
Decotech then JBH
Hand and micromotor bevelling, decoration, inspection, dispatch and training of new colleagues.
José Lopes
Bevelling, straight graining, circular graining, black polishing and other high-end watch finishes.
INHOTEC
Two periods in hand and micromotor bevelling, including file work under a binocular microscope on complex components.
Swissmec
Hand and micromotor bevelling trainer for future watchmaking professionals.
Art de l’Anglage
Founder and trainer in Les Brenets: private students, professionals, teams and manufactures.
The Les Brenets workshop
The craft remains traditional. Observation becomes shared.
Files, buffs, micromotors, work supports and light form the heart of the workshop. The dual-view microscope, HD camera and 4K screen make every detail shareable at the exact moment of correction.
- Dual-view binocularAlexandra and the student observe the same gesture live.
- HD camera & 4K screenThe detail becomes shareable without losing the link with the hand.
- Hand toolsFiles, buffs and supports adapted to the geometry.
- MicromotorsControlled work, preparation and surface consistency.
- Real componentsWatchmaking constraints are present from the start.
- Small groupsUp to four people at one time.
The workshop’s voice
Spend one minute inside the Les Brenets workshop.
This short film introduces the benches, components and the way Alexandra connects inspection under the microscope with the work of the hands.
Direct contact
Tell Alexandra about the component or technique that interests you.
An introduction, a complete programme, focused development or team training: a few lines about your experience and objective are enough to start the conversation.