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PoignETS

Let’s make a watch tick at ÉTS.

Designing and making watches at ÉTS, from choosing the movement to stitching the strap. A proposed student club.

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  • [01] Design
  • [02] Making
  • [03] Assembly
[ 01 ]

The club

©2026

PoignETS wants to bring ÉTS students together around something concrete: designing and making watches, from the first sketch to the wrist.

Illustration photo: a watchmaker at work.
[ Context ]

A watch packs what ÉTS teaches into a few centimetres: mechanical design, machining, materials, finishing and metrology, on an object where every hundredth of a millimetre counts.

[ Our approach ]

Start from off-the-shelf movements, reliable and well documented, and put the engineering effort into what surrounds them: the case, the strap and the clasp.

[ At the heart of the club ]
  • CaseDesign — Machining
  • Strap & claspLeather — Mechanism
  • MovementSelection — Casing
About the club

On the bench

MovementsCasesDialsHandsStrapsClaspsTesting
[ 02 ]

The proposal

©2026

A scientific and technological club where every project ends in a finished watch.

Read the proposal
  1. [ 01 ]

    Choose and design

    Start from an off-the-shelf movement and design the watch around it.

    Compare movements on size, reliability and cost, then design the case, dial and strap fittings in CAD, with design reviews as a team.

  2. [ 02 ]

    Make

    Machine the case, stitch the strap, build the clasp.

    The workshop side: machining and finishing cases, leather straps and matching clasps.

  3. [ 03 ]

    Assemble and measure

    Close the watch and measure the result.

    Case the movement, fit the dial and hands, then test water resistance and timekeeping.

[ 03 ]

Planned projects

©2026
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From drawing to wrist.
[ 04 ]

Questions

©2026
The proposalThe club's file, section by sectionReadProposal

  • Because a watch is mechanical engineering in miniature. Few student projects let you design, machine, assemble and measure a complete mechanism, then wear it every day.

  • Not at first. The club starts from off-the-shelf movements bought from suppliers and puts its work into what surrounds them. Choosing the right movement is part of the project.

  • A clean, well-lit place to work, machine time for the cases, and watchmaking tools. The full list is in the proposal.

  • Not yet. This site presents the project ahead of a request for recognition as a student club.

  • The club is being founded and has no official address yet. Its contact details will be published on the Contact page as soon as they are available.