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[Endeavor]

1 hour ago, Colditz said:

I would so love to see a proper watch manufacturing and apprenticeship setup in the UK that rivals the Swiss. The government could do so much more to promote engineering prowess in the horology field here. We certainly have the skill base it just needs to be passed on and have the people willing to invest and do it.

There is hope !

Colin's story is very inspiring;  https://www.great-british-watch.co.uk/about-me/

While you add it, his whole website is very informative: https://www.great-british-watch.co.uk/

[JohnR725]

9 hours ago, Colditz said:

I would so love to see a proper watch manufacturing and apprenticeship setup in the UK that rivals the Swiss. The government could do so much more to promote engineering prowess in the horology field here. We certainly have the skill base it just needs to be passed on and have the people willing to invest and do it.

You're going to have a hard time doing that. If I'm interpreting what I've quoted above correctly you would like to see the UK manufacturing watches? The problem is the Swiss have worked really hard at obliterating competition. David waging a long-term war at putting other countries out of business.

Then apprenticeship in the Swiss is that how they teach their watchmakers? I thought they had schools I didn't realize they did apprenticeships

[sladew]

Hi,

I stumbled across this old thread about end of life Adobe flash player and the inaccessibility of the ETA movement docs/training material in Flash format (.swf files).

I just wanted to let you know that there is an open source Flash Emulator that is available as a web browser plugin that plays the ETA .swf files well....

https://ruffle.rs/

Ruffle Flash Emulator is available as a Firefox browser plugin OR a desktop application. 

I have personally tested and installed both and successfully downloaded various .swf files from the ETA site and played them with the Ruffle flash emulator.

I encourage anybody who still needs to access ETAswissl@b training Flash .swf files to try this solution.

Regards,

Slade.

 

 

[sladew]

Please let me know if there are any questions about using Ruffle or saving the .swf files.

Edited August 24, 2024 by sladew