Breitling Training

I had to save my Breitling training for last. The training was epic, 5 weeks! I really got to know the company and the people during that time. I was so impressed with Breitling’s dedication to after-sales service. The training program they have in place is by far the best I have seen. And the staff, trainers, managers are all very dedicated and passionate about the program and the company. It was an amazing experience.

Breitling Uunderground passage

I spent my first week of training in polishing. The second week was a solo program in which I spent a day in each department of the after-sales service facility. The remaining three weeks were level 1 and 2 training, which covers a majority of the Breitling watch calibers on the market. The program was harder than I expected, we were graded on everything. Our trainer, Stefan Kuonen, scrutinized our work to a painful degree and he really pushed us to improve at every stage of the training. I have to admit, I had a couple meltdowns, some bad days when I felt all my watch skills had left my body and I couldn't do anything right. I don't know if it was the grading that started to get to me or the exhaustion that comes from travelling and living in a hotel for too long or the fact that I was also having to work on the island service center project at night. But all excuses aside, what the program did accomplish for me personally was to wake up my mind to watchmaking again. After 12 years, I'll admit I had gotten lazy. I had gone through the motions for so long and stopped questioning them or remembering why I do what I do. I'm happy to have had this experience. I'm really happy that I passed! And I feel that I am still waking up to my watch world. Questioning it in ways that I haven't in a long time. Taking it apart and figuring out what about it I really like and what about it I need to fix. This is a good thing.

Polishing training group

Level 1 & 2 training group