Courses &amp; Materials

Automatic Watch – Servicing and Correcting Faults

Step by step instructions for servicing an automatic winding watch to exam & retail standards.

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Starts 22 June

Basic Clock

Perfectly designed for beginners and enthusiasts looking to build their skills. Whether you're completely new to clock repair or have a little experience, this hands-on course will guide you through the essential techniques needed to service a mechanical clock movement with confidence.

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Starts 25 April

Basic Watch

Dismantle and reassemble a Seagull ST3600 and then assemble it, oil and regulate the watch to industry standards.

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Starts 18 April

Build Your Own Watch

Spend two days at Upton Hall with the guidance of pro tutor John Murphy to learn what makes watches tick and assemble your own watch with Swiss movement, stainless steel case, dial, hands and leather strap - to take home.

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Starts 13 April

Chronograph – Servicing and Correcting Faults

This intensive 5-day course is designed for horology students looking to develop their fault-finding and servicing skills, specifically for chronograph movements, to the highest timekeeping tolerances and industry standards.

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Starts 27 May

Clock Taster Day

Ever wondered how clocks work? Come along to Upton Hall and find out with a fun and informative taster day with our professional tutors. The courses also includes a brief history of horology, demonstrations and information about how clocks are maintained and cleaned.

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Starts 08 April

Cylinder and Lever Platform Escapements – Fault Finding and Correction

This 3-day course focuses on fault finding and correction for Cylinder and Lever Platform Escapements

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Starts 10 August

Deadbeat Escapement – Design and Construction

A step by step instruction and exercises in the design of a suitable fly cutter to make a specified dead-beat escapement including finishing. Relevant to micro mechanics skills development.

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Distance Learning Course – Intermediate and Final Grade

For those who have completed the BHI Technician Grade (Level 3) this course provides a comprehensive guide to advanced practical and theoretical techniques.

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Distance Learning Course – Intermediate and Final Grade (Tutor Feedback)

Tutor Feedback allows you to email or post your answers to the end of lesson questions and your practical test pieces for marking and assessment by one of the Institute’s professional tutors. Please note that this is for Tutor Feedback only and does not include the DLC Course. This should be purchased separately. Tutor feedback is available to buy at any time during your studies.

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Distance Learning Course – Technician Grade

Since 1858, the British Horological Institute has been training the world’s finest horologists, professionals and passionate enthusiasts alike. Whether you’re building a career in horology, restoring pieces from your own collection, or developing the skills to buy and sell with confidence, this course is your first step to the most respected qualification in the […]

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Distance Learning Course – Technician Grade (Tutor Feedback)

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Distance Learning Course Bundle

A complete set of educational resources covering in detail all aspects of essential clock and watch techniques.

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Starts 14 November

Drawing Clock Escapements

This practical course immerses students in designing and drawing clock escapements, focusing on the Recoil Anchor and Graham Dead Beat types

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Starts 27 June

Introduction to Finishing

Refine your skills with our Horological Finishing Techniques course.

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Starts 15 June

Introduction to Hand and Machine Skills

The starting point for any person looking to get into practical work, especially within horology. The course covers and looks at all the basic skills needed within a workshop through the construction of a poractical project piece to give real world experience to the skills being taught as well as a project that can be taken home for use in your own workshop.

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Starts 12 September

Introduction to Technical Drawing – Part 1

The perfect starting point for anyone new to horological technical drawing. This hands-on course covers essential skills like layout, line types, orthographic projections, and the use of key tools.

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Starts 10 October

Introduction to Technical Drawing – Part 2

This course builds on the skills learned in Part 1, offering a deeper understanding of technical drawing conventions.

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Starts 12 October

Making a Balance Staff (Micro Mechanics)

This course teaches you how to make a balance staff incorporating the use of the watchmakers lathe, the Jacot tool, gravers and similar small hand tools.

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Starts 28 September

Making a Winding Stem

The course draws together skills learned on previous courses featuring the watchmakers lathe. This course further develops micro mechanics by combining close tolerance lathe work, precision filing, fine thread cutting and polishing.

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Starts 27 April

Making Small Components

Making precision components to a high level of accuracy, combining lathe work, hand finishing and fitting skills.

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Starts 02 November

Making Small Components – Cock and Plate

This course teaches the techniques required in order to make small and often complex components that are required in all areas of horology.

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Starts 14 July

Making Wheels and Pinions

This practical course focuses on the design and manufacture of wheels and pinions — essential components at the heart of every mechanical timepiece.

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Starts 03 August

Manual Wind Watch – Servicing and Correcting Faults

Gain the skills and confidence to diagnose, service, and quality-check manual wind watches to industry standards.

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Module – Automatic Watches (PDF Course)

Explore the evolution of automatic watchmaking and learn how to service self-winding movements from every era. Watch Servicing: Automatic Watches is a downloadable PDF course focused on the practical skills and servicing knowledge required to work confidently with a wide range of automatic wristwatches.

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Module – Clock Servicing (PDF Course)

Learn how to clean, inspect, and restore mechanical clocks with confidence. Clock Servicing is a course designed for horology students taking the Practical or Vocational routes to qualification to MBHI. repairers and hobbyists who want to develop reliable, workshop-ready servicing skills across a range of clock types.

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Module – Clock Theory (PDF Course)

Deepen your horological knowledge with this richly illustrated, in-depth PDF course exploring the principles behind a wide range of clock types and mechanisms.

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Module – Quartz Watches (PDF Course)

Master the skills and understanding needed to service, troubleshoot, and restore quartz timepieces. Watch Servicing: Quartz Edition is a downloadable PDF course combining essential workshop techniques with the technical theory behind modern battery-powered watches.

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Module – The Chronograph (PDF Course)

Master the complexity of one of watchmaking’s most challenging complications. The Chronograph is a downloadable PDF course focused on the practical skills and servicing techniques needed to work confidently on a wide range of mechanical chronograph movements.

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Module – Watch Servicing (PDF Course)

Learn the essential hands-on processes required to service, clean, and reassemble mechanical watches of all types. Watch Servicing is a downloadable PDF course offering step-by-step instruction in the professional care and maintenance of manual and automatic wristwatches.

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Module – Watch Theory (PDF Course)

Gain a clear, structured understanding of the mechanics behind mechanical wristwatches. Watch Theory is a downloadable PDF course designed to teach the underlying principles that govern the function, interaction, and regulation of parts inside a manually wound mechanical watch.

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Module – Workshop Skills (PDF Course)

A detailed horological training guide designed for students, enthusiasts, and restoration professionals working or looking to create a fully equipped workshop.

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Starts 02 May

Open Clock Workshop

The Open Clock Workshop offers BHI memeber a unique opportunity to bring in their own horological projects to work on in the BHI's fully equiped workshop.

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Starts 20 November

Open Watch Workshop

The Open Watch Workshop offers BHI members a unique opportunity to bring in their own horological projects to work on in the BHI's fully equipped workshop.

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Practical Module Bundle – Clocks (PDF Courses)

A complete set of modules covering in detail all aspects of essential clock techniques.

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Practical Module Bundle – Watches (PDF Courses)

A complete set of modules covering in detail all aspects of essential watch techniques.

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Starts 21 September

Practical Restoration and Conservation of Clocks

The sympathetic repair of Antique Clocks and historically important Timepieces

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Quartz Watch – Servicing and Correcting Faults

Mechanical & Electrical checks & tests. Fault finding and servicing to specific mechanical, electronic, quality controls to industry standards and tolerances ('electronic tolerances’ are power consumption, resistance and voltage)

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Starts 18 September

Recoil Escapement – Design and Construction

A practical workshop based coures that focuses on how to design and construct the anchour recoil escapment in a practical way.

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Starts 14 September

Single Train Clock – Servicing and Correcting Faults

A 4-day course teaching you the correct way to correct faults and service a single train clock to professional standards.

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Starts 17 June

Small Lathe and Skills Development

This hands-on course is designed to consolidate and develop the skills introduced in the Introduction to Hand and Machine Skills. Over three days, students will complete a series of tutor-led fabrication exercises that strengthen their confidence and precision in workshop practice.

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Starts 13 April

Striking Clock – Servicing and Correcting Faults

This intensive course focuses on the complex servicing and fault diagnosis of striking clocks, ensuring that they perform to the highest industry standards. Under the guidance of expert tutors, you will gain hands-on experience troubleshooting and servicing the components of striking clock mechanisms.

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Starts 18 April

Technical Drawing – Exam Practice

In this course students will under examination condition be able to practice and hone their skills prior to taking Drawing Clock & Watch Escapements (Unit D6) in a formal assessment.

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Starts 17 June

Watch Taster Day

Curious about how watches work? Join us for an inspiring and hands-on Taster Day at Upton Hall, home of the renowned Museum of Timekeeping.

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Starts 22 July

Watchmakers Lathe and Graver Turning

Learn how to set up, use and maintain a lathe. You will learn the skills and knowledge needed to use brass and steel to manufacture components and techniques to turn metal.

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Wrist Chronometer – Fine Adjustment of Escapement and Timekeeping

Fine adjustment of the escapement to establish precise timekeeping to “as new” condition all to manufacturers original specification.