A break—sort of—from SAWTA prep, featuring my favorite complication.

Setting the hands is a chronograph's final (and significant) challenge.

Adding a day to the date mechanism doubles the difficulty in setup.

The watches are getting more complex as our skills improve.

Sometimes making your own tool is the best—and cheapest—option.

If you can't see the oil, I've done my job properly.

The chronograph mechanism is extremely complicated, but logically assembled.

A new complication requires us to be more careful than ever.

Four weeks in, and we're skipping ahead to one of our most complex challenges.