Learn Watchmaking in Manchester

Honest level: Beginner to advanced — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Schools in Manchester

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• British School of Watchmaking
  WOSTEP 3000-hour Watchmaker Programme
  The British School of Watchmaking in Manchester is a full-time horology school whose flagship two-year WOSTEP 3000-hour Watchmaker Programme leads to the internationally recognised WOSTEP diploma, with no prior watchmaking knowledge required.
  https://www.britishschoolofwatchmaking.co.uk/
• BHI (British Horological Institute, Upton Hall)
  Residential short courses at Upton Hall
  The British Horological Institute, founded in 1858 and based at Upton Hall in Nottinghamshire, runs residential intensive short courses (from servicing skills to a multi-day Build Your Own Watch) with on-site accommodation, professional workshops and a major horological collection.
  https://bhi.co.uk/

The credential

WOSTEP Watchmaker Diploma (or the Swiss CFC en horlogerie) · Certifying body: WOSTEP (Watchmakers of Switzerland Training and Educational Program); Swiss CFC federal apprenticeship

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Watchmaking

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.