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PoignETS

Let’s make a watch tick at ÉTS.

Designing and making watches at ÉTS: the case, the strap, the clasp, and the choice of the movement that beats inside. A proposed student club.

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

The club

©2026

PoignETS brings ÉTS students together to design and make watches, from the first sketch to the piece you wear on your wrist.

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[ 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 shows.

[ Our approach ]

Start from commercial 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 projects

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[ 03 ]

The proposal

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

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  1. [ 01 ]

    Choose and design

    Start from a commercial 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 clasps designed to go with them.

  3. [ 03 ]

    Assemble and measure

    Close the watch and check what was designed.

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

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Project index

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From drawing to wrist.
[ 05 ]

Questions

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  • Because a watch is mechanical engineering in miniature: design, machining, materials, tolerances and metrology, brought together in a finished object. It is a concrete place to put the degree to work.

  • Not to start with. The club builds on commercial movements, reliable and well documented, and puts its work into what surrounds them: the case, the strap, the clasp, and the choice of the movement itself.

  • Mechanical design and CAD, manufacturing and machining, materials and finishing, tolerancing and metrology. The proposal sets out each link.

  • 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.

  • Write to us. Whether you are a student, on staff, or simply curious about watches, we would like to hear from you.