There is no time to take it apart and take out dust! The production environment requires repeatability coupled with quality. Right now there’s approximately 200 American watch brands, and hardly any of them do anything in America, said Kunal Naik, CEO of FTS USA. In fact, the company wants to make Fountain Hills the new watchmaking capital of the United States. It is quite the dichotomy when compared to how watch modding works. That’s something Fine Timepiece Solutions USA, a new Arizona watch manufacturing startup, hopes to change. All of this is done under the watchful eye of the head watchmaker, in a clean room environment. This ballet continues all the way through the assembly process, and culminates in an assembled watch that is built with the highest quality.
Our goal to supply high quality movements built in the USA has now been achieved with the cooperation of expert local providers and our technical and IP partners around the world. At FTS, I watched a technician expertly mount an hour, minute and seconds hand, all with hand tools, in just a minute or so. About Fine Timepiece Solutions We are proud to introduce ourselves as the first industrial watch movement supplier based in the USA in over 50 years. I can spend a few minutes just mounting a seconds hand. Inside the Waldan Heritage beats the Ameriquartz caliber 70200 movement, which is a quartz caliber developed by Fine Timepiece Solutions (FTS) and produced in Fountain Hills, Arizona. Watching the hands quickly move through the motions makes you realize that practice makes perfect. The motion of installing dial spacer, dial and then inspection is performed at a rate of one per minute. A kit arrives at a trained technician’s station - for example, mounting a dial. The techniques and procedures you use in the modding community are out the window! This is full-fledged production hundreds of watches pass through the facility every week. What immediately struck me is the organization involved. FTS is assembling some up-and-coming Islander models, and I was very excited to visit and see first-hand how watches are built (in America, no less!) In January, I was fortunate enough to visit the Fine Timepiece Solutions USA (FTS) headquarters located in Fountain Hills, Arizona. For those who have modded their own watches, how often have you completed the mod, only to find in bright sunlight there is dust on your dial? Or your hour and minute hand alignment is not perfect.įor the inexperienced, it seems simple. I consider myself an experienced amateur, at best, but I can accomplish the task. Having embraced the watch modification culture, I have assembled many watches in my time.
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