Watch beveling training · Alexandra Schmitz · Les Brenets, Switzerland
Watch beveling training in Switzerland.
A workshop in Les Brenets to learn properly, in small groups, with real standards and clear teaching.
Art de l’Anglage welcomes motivated private individuals, people changing career, professionals already in post, as well as companies and manufactures. Here, the work focuses on the file, the micromotor, reading reflections and correcting the gesture, with visible criteria at the bench.
Since
2006
Practice and transmission of beveling within Haute Horlogerie standards.
Small group
4 max.
To preserve real time for demonstration, correction and individual support.
Location
Les Brenets
A workshop in Switzerland, designed for calm, working light and precision of gesture.
Method
Hand + micromotor
Two tools, one shared standard: accurate geometry, clean reworking and clear reading of the result.
Support
Binocular microscope + camera
To make correction precise and fast, concrete and immediately understandable at the bench.
Reading a good bevel
What a good bevel should reveal.
Before choosing a format, you need to be able to read a result. On this wheel worked by Alexandra, beveling is judged through simple and concrete criteria: a clean edge, consistent width, coherent geometry and a stable reflection.
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Clean edge
The transition must remain clear, without softness or visual burr. It is the first sign of seriousness.
02
Consistent width
Consistency gives the finish its hold. This is often where you see whether the gesture is understood or still unstable.
03
Coherent geometry
Angles, curves and rework must answer each other. A beautiful finish is never an isolated effect: it is accurate construction.
04
Stable reflection
Light forgives nothing. If the reflection breaks, something needs reworking. If it holds, the gesture becomes more reliable.
Alexandra Schmitz
Professional transmission, carried by the workshop.
Alexandra Schmitz founded Art de l’Anglage to pass on a demanding craft within a human-scale setting, where learning happens through observation, fast correction and accurate repetition.
“Show, let them try, correct, have them rework, until the gesture becomes natural.”
Her teaching is based on concrete markers: posture, light, trajectory, pressure, consistency. Each notion must become readable both in the hand and in the result.
The About page lets you discover her background, her teaching approach and the birth of the workshop in more detail.
A clear standard, in a calm and caring setting.
Find your way
The right format depends first on your need.
People do not come to the workshop for the same reasons. Some want to discover beveling in the right conditions, others want to regain a level, build a solid base, or answer a more directly professional need.
You want to discover the workshop.
You are looking for a serious first step to understand the gesture, the working atmosphere and the standard expected.
You want to regain or refine a level.
You already practise, or you want to recover consistency, method and a more reliable reading of the result.
You want a complete training programme.
You are starting seriously, or you are considering a career change that requires a broader and more structured setting.
Companies & manufactures
A dedicated format also exists for teams, workshops and quality needs.
Team upskilling, harmonising finishes, working on your own parts, intervention on site or in Les Brenets, support in structuring a workshop: the setting is not the same, and the dedicated offer reflects that clearly.
Training programmes
Three distinct formats, depending on the need.
The choice is made neither by prestige nor by habit. It is made according to your starting point, your available time and the depth of work you are looking for.
Discovery · 6h
CHF 500
A format designed to discover the workshop and the training.
One day to discover the workshop, understand posture, tools and the logic of beveling, without confusing a serious introduction with established mastery.
The right format to validate a training project, reassure a first step or offer a first demanding experience of the workshop.
Advanced · 40h
CHF 4 000
Stabilise consistency.
An in-depth format to work on reworking, drawn lines, demanding angles and the hold of the reflection in more committed situations.
Suited to profiles who want to refresh, deepen or structure an already engaged practice.
Complete training · 100h
CHF 8 000
Build a serious foundation.
A broader path for motivated beginners, career changes or profiles who want to establish solid, coherent and seriously presentable foundations.
The goal is not to promise speed. The goal is to learn accurately, gain coherence and produce work that can be defended.
External proof
A few selected feedbacks.
They do not replace the Testimonials page. They are enough to convey the consistency of the feedback: clear standards, visible progress, seriousness of transmission.
“I progressed enormously in the consistency of my gestures, the reading of light, and the precision of the edges. Your teaching and your standards gave meaning to every detail of the craft.”
“Alexandra collaborated with me on several beveling projects. Her precision, seriousness and attention to detail are remarkable.”
Go further
Compare calmly, then choose the right setting.
You can now look at the training programmes in detail, enter through the Companies page, or request a short conversation to place your need without rushing the decision.